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Millions of people are using torrenting websites to looks for files on the internet and download them. As I write this there are 6.761.168 registered users on The Pirate Bay (the most popular torrent website) and over 6 million torrents to choose from. Whether it’s movies, music, software or anything else – there’s a torrent for everything. But how do you download a torrent file to your computer anonymously and without leaving footprints that would lead right to you?
Those who use torrents on a regular basis know, that everything they download can be traced back to them, and, if there’s any illegal file down/upload going on, they can face charges and some serious fees. However, there are ways to download torrent files completely anonymous, without letting anyone know that you downloaded anything.
Some suggest using an expensive VPN service or a proxy that would hide ones IP address, some tell you to move to another country with no extradition… There’s also both free and paid software (VPN proxy like BTGuard) that you can download onto your computer, but this is generally way too complicated compared to the method described below. You won’t need to enter any custom settings, download or even install anything at all!
Let me just share the best way I know how to safely download torrents without getting caught and setting off any red flags.
Best way to download torrents anonymously
How awesome would it be if you could just ask someone to download the torrent you like and then just get the file from them? Well, there is a service that does exactly that.
Myfastfile is a service that acts as a middle man between you and the file you want to download. Instead of downloading a file from any given server straight to your computer, which makes it traceable, you can just tell Myfastfile what to download for you and then take the file straight from their protected servers, absolutely anonymous.
It is as if you asked your friend to download something for you, and the only thing you would to is collect a thumb drive with the downloaded file on it. This way your involvement in the download is completely untraceable and no one will ever know that you were behind the torrent download.
How to use the Myfastfile Downloader
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First of all, get yourself a Myfastfile premium account. It’s not that expensive actually: it can go as low as $0.21 per day with the 12 month plan. If you just want to test the service you can go ahead and purchase a 1 month premium account for $12.99. The most popular options are the 3- and 12 month accounts, which cost $9.99 per month and $6.57 per month respectively. These are one time only payments, not recurring!
After that, open the Downloader, paste your torrent link (or magnet link) inside the box and press submit. Now Myfastfile will download the file you have selected for you, and you can download it straight from their servers. You don’t even need to install a torrent client or any other software on your computer.
Since many people use the service, you will find that some torrents will download “instantly”, simply because Myfastfile already has the file on their servers. After telling Myfastfile to download a torrent for you, you will have around 3 to 6 days (always different for some reason) to download the file to your computer safely and without letting anyone know.
Download torrents even faster!
When you download a torrent, you are usually automatically downloading it from multiple sources at the same time. However, you are often either limited by the speed of your broadband connection or the amount of people, who are sharing the file with you. So how can you download torrents even faster than you do right now?
As I already told you above, myfastfile stores loads of popular torrents in the cloud already, which allows you to download them straight from their servers. If the file is not yet in the cloud though, myfastfile will download it for you with an absolutely incredible speed: I saw speeds up to 200 Mbps!
Another cool trick myfastfile can do it streaming torrents. Since you’re probably using torrents to download movies in most cases anyway, there’s actually no need for you to download the whole file on your computer or mobile device. Just add the torrent to the Downloaded, let myfastfile download it for you and simply stream the whole thing without downloading it and needing to wait!
So, the fastest way for you to watch a popular movie torrent is simply taking the magnet link, adding it to the downloader and pressing Stream. All of that will take you 10 seconds (if the torrent is already in the cloud).
Myfastfile is the best torrent client replacement
Old-school torrenting methods are oftentimes not as secure as you think they are. By moving everything to the cloud you not only replace your uTorrent, BitTorrent or any other torrent client on your computer with a good looking web UI, but also hide your IP address from anyone who tries to find it without the need to use an additional VPN or proxy.
If you have any questions or suggestions, please leave a comment below!
You want to download faster?
Make sure that
- you use Good settings for high download speed
- you don't have a NAT problem
- you don't use a standard incoming listen port like 6881
- you use Good Torrents
- you do NOT use Force Start
Just click all those links and read the info carefully... After reading that you may ask questions about that topic in the forums.
Test the speed before complaining[edit]
If you get green smileys as torrents' 'Health', then you know that your basic network settings are ok. However, that doesn't guarantee speedy transfers.
It is good to understand that
- there is no central server from which you download. Everything that users download, is at the same time uploaded by users
- you contact other users for your downloads
- respectively, others should be able to contact you (NAT & port forwarding to be configured)
It is quite possible with a 'new' torrent or an one with 'small' swarm (only a few peers), that the missing pieces are not available. So, it is quite possible that torrent remains active with 'downloading' status, but is not actively downloading anything as there is nobody to download from.
Before thinking that your configuration is slow, test it with a 'known speedy' torrent. E.g. the following torrent has very high speed: http://releases.ubuntu.com/11.04/ubuntu-11.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent
It is a Ubuntu Linux distribution, which has lots of seeders, and you should reach your internet connection's maximum speed in most cases (especially with ADSL/cable home connections). Speeds well over 10 Mbit/s (= 1 MB/s as Vuze sees it) should be reachable. You don't have to download the 700 MB torrent completely, but you can use it as a test case for measuring maximum speeds of genuine torrents.
Another user complete download = faster download for you[edit]
Another reason for uploading is simply to help fill everyone up. By doing this you prevent someone, who is seeding, trying to upload a part you already have (and which is useless for you). The chance that he then uploads a piece you need becomes greater. This will not result directly in increasing speed but it will optimize the uploader's upload which results in you getting your piece sooner since you no longer need to wait for a piece. Think of it as a reverse Zero Sum game.
More Things To Know[edit]
It is very important to know that, when you are seeding, or uploading a torrent, the u/l speed of your sharing is not the only thing using your upstream bandwidth. Requests made to the tracker, browser requests to load web pages, and sending email all utilise your upstream capacity. So you may experience the following difficulties when running Azureus.
- 'Unable to locate server...' error message whilst browsing the web
- Connection problems
- Other web related issues
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If you find yourself having problems with the Internet while Azureus is running, try further lowering your max upload.
The point of this section is to explain that when configuring your maximum u/l setting in Azureus, it is best not to set it to use all of your upstream capacity. Rather, it is best to set it to use a maximum of 80% of your total upstream bandwidth.
A note on ADSL speeds using PPPoE:[edit]
An ADSL connection using PPPoE has reduced usable bandwidth compared to the theoretical bandwidth that is purchased. In my experience a theoretical 512kb/s dl product has overheads due to the PPPoE encapsulation that limits the connection to about 400kb/s max. This means the limit before applying the suggestions above should be 400/512 ≈ 78% of the theoretical bandwidth. This logic applies in both directions. So Azureus DL max would be:
80% × 78% × 512kb/s ≈ 319kb/s; 319kb/s ÷ 8 B/b ≈ 40 kB/s if Azureus is the only Internet application.Reduce this somewhat to allow other Internet protocols better response on the same connection.
A tip for RcvWin/TcpWindowSize tweakers[edit]
When you are using a Windows OS you can also use the TCP Optimizer to optimize several system settings for your line speed.
'I've most often seen [poor performance] with people running on Windows who 'tweak'their TCP send and receive buffers to be very large in search of higherbandwidth. Buffered data is obsolete data and causes serious problemsin the responsiveness of the protocol to changes in the peer state.Since data and requests share the same TCP socket, buffering lots ofdata means that your request for a block may have to wait 10's ofseconds before it even gets transmitted, by which time the peer you aretalking to may have decided that you aren't interested in his data afterall, or your own client may decide that the peer you are talking to issnubbing you. Either of these is disastrous to download rates.'
- taken from the BitTorrent developer mailing list
Final Note:[edit]
Trackers get uncountable numbers of requests made on them every day. I have seen that some people think that clicking on the 'Manual Update' button will somehow increase their speeds or make an offline tracker come back online quicker. It Will Not. Clicking on the Manual Update button is for last resort checking when there is a connection problem On Your End. For example, if you are using a proxy for your tracker requests, you may need to perform some manual announces to verify that the proxy is working while you play with the settings. Also, some private trackers require peers to be logged in on their web page before they can connect to the tracker, adding the IP they logged in from to a whitelist. In this case it may be necessary to announce manually after you log in.
In any case, the more you click on the Manual Update button, the more this will destabilize the tracker, and cause it to go offline for everybody. So for the most part, Leave the Manual Update button alone, and your speeds will recover by themselves (unless there are other issues, but anyway, this button will not help to fix those either).
Read the Azureus FAQ