Bit Torrent

[scooby]

utorrent and turn on encyption so that your ISP cannot work out what sort of traffic it is if you have one of those ISP's that cap bandwidth for torrents.

http://www.utorrent.com/

WHS

I use www.isohunt.com

If you're with bt broadband, they traffic shape from 1600-2300 (ish) so speeds will be slow regardless of who you use, but outside these hours you get your full speed

[gingerjedi]

I've been using Bittornado for years as it worked first time so I've stuck with it, is there a good reason why I should use anything else? Also I find most of what I want on torrentreactor, again is there any reason not to use this?

[NickFitz]

I've been using Bittornado for years as it worked first time so I've stuck with it, is there a good reason why I should use anything else? Also I find most of what I want on torrentreactor, again is there any reason not to use this?

Suck 'em and see

One of the great gifts the Internet has given us is the ability to try something new, and ditch it if we don't like it. Take advantage of living in the twenty-first century

[Platypus]

Suck 'em and see

One of the great gifts the Internet has given us is the ability to try something new, and ditch it if we don't like it. Take advantage of living in the twenty-first century

Hence uTorrent and isohunt (for me)

[AZZIK]

I've steered clear of torrenting to date but am thinking of taking a look at it.

What's the basics I need to know.

i.e Most user friendly client.
Good torrent sites for movies and/or TV programmes

Azureus client is a good one...never let me down.

[Clippy]

Appreciate all the tips/advice.

Plenty to keep me going for a while.

[fzbucks]

A good site for tv shows:

http://eztv.it

it also has a https equivalent if you download a certificate for privacy

it has all the tv shows from over the pond and here

you don't have to search for them as they are listed by show alphabetically then by season.

The site just has the torrent files on them so use whatever client you want.

[Jaws]

If you're with Virgin media they will reduce your bandwidth between 4pm-9pm once you reach a certain threshold in bandwidth. When they do that I find it is necessary to cap your upload speeds with uTorrent to around 8k/sec or your download speed suffers (I can get about 140k/sec when I've capped the upload speed - and maybe about 25k/sec when I haven't).