How to download files with uTorrent.
If you've heard about BitTorrent and want to download files but don't know how, this tutorial is for you. All you need is uTorrent and you're ready. Watch the tutorial and leave a comment with any questions/feedback you may have.
Note: If you want to learn how to send files using uTorrent or a bit of information on how BitTorrent works in general, see this page. If you downloaded a .rar archive or multipart .r01, .r02 etc files, this page will tell you what to do with them. If you need help with uTorrent, visit their forums.
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where is the tutorial video?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 08/03/2006 - 06:49.It's right on this page, you need the Flash plugin to watch it.
Submitted by Stavros on Wed, 08/03/2006 - 09:41.---
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just click play..thx man great cite!
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 20/05/2007 - 17:05.listen i'm getting a red bar on availablity and it doesn't seem to be downloading can someone help me?
Submitted by Street (not verified) on Thu, 12/07/2007 - 16:11.how do you find to files to upload on the internet, i don't see a search box in utorrent...
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 02/11/2007 - 21:42.Trying to find tutorial for absolute beginner.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 02/12/2007 - 01:29.where is it please I have player but nothing happens on the indicated page, nowhere to press play. thanks
Submitted by michele.kilduff on Mon, 19/05/2008 - 02:35.your an idiot its rite in front of u
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 15/06/2008 - 18:20.how i download movies from utorrent
Submitted by moe (not verified) on Mon, 07/07/2008 - 21:37.Where can I download a ".torrent file" as demomstrated in the tutorial? There does not appear to be one on the utorrent web site.
I dont feel confident about downloading a file until I am sure I am doing it correctly! Bit of a noob i'm afraid but we all have to start somewhere.
Paul
Submitted by Paul (not verified) on Sun, 02/04/2006 - 21:22.You can find them at various sites. There’s really no need for you to use uTorrent if you don’t actually have anything to download :P
A sample torrent is this Ubuntu Linux one.
Submitted by Stavros on Mon, 03/04/2006 - 08:21.—-
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how do u download stuff off utorrent? theres a search box but its jus links to stuff like how do u search wat u want 2 start downloading the vids?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/05/2008 - 09:35.I downloaded utorrent and found movies to download. For some reason they are not downloading and it says Failure unrecognized host (my IP) then it says go to http://torrents.shexnet.com. Also everything shows zeros and nothing is happening.
I am new to this so any information will help thanx
Submitted by zachredford on Sun, 07/05/2006 - 23:23.This is actually not the official place to discuss this, try the uTorrent forums and please don’t discuss illegal uses of BitTorrent here.
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Submitted by Stavros on Mon, 08/05/2006 - 00:04.Vidi, Vici, Veni.
Is it possible to block uploads while downloading using utorrent?
I'm new to utorrent.
Thanks.
Niq
Submitted by Niq (not verified) on Mon, 24/07/2006 - 19:57.It is, but downloads will stop as well. Noone likes leechers.
Submitted by Stavros on Mon, 24/07/2006 - 22:39.---
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When I go to tab: Select a torrent to open
Submitted by John Freyr (not verified) on Mon, 28/08/2006 - 10:18.and choose a file, then it says where do you want to put the file but it does not show a list of ticked boxes. I would like to download some of the file. I have utorrent1.6.
What can i do?
where do i put downloads after that are downloaded and burn them onto a cd
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 02/07/2007 - 11:48.Ive got torrent files off torrent spy which says there are hundreds of seeds but when u torrent starts to download them it says there are none???? what do i do?
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 27/09/2006 - 13:47.thanks
Submitted by Bisweswar (not verified) on Wed, 14/05/2008 - 21:13.thanks that was useful x
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sun, 01/10/2006 - 18:38.Eh? I'm new to uTorrent, I really don't have a clue how to do anything. My cousin downloaded a file of his. Its sitting there, but when I go to play it, a 'Torrent Properties' window comes up. What do I do now??
Submitted by Scorpio (not verified) on Fri, 10/11/2006 - 11:11.my ? is the same as above
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 19/07/2007 - 22:36.me 2
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 20/10/2007 - 17:11.ARGHHHH
I am sooo confused and i dont know how to download. i downloaded the FUDCon-devel-videos torrent and i dont know where to go from there. i want to be able to use this program to download songs and videos and maybe video games. HOW?!?!...HELP!
Submitted by fIzzO (not verified) on Thu, 30/11/2006 - 22:53.HI, Can u please explain, step by step, how to use utorrent for downloading files from the internet. I've tried with mininova, but when I press the 'download' button I don't get the desired result. Thanks.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 22/03/2007 - 22:38.I used uTorrent 1.6 to download a movie file (paradise.avi) after hours! of downloading and uploading it finally finished but when i go to open the downloade file (paradise.avi) it wont' open! It shows that it has 693 MB and it's in .avi format but when i try to open it in a Divx player a message comes up saying "Error Opening File. Make sure it is a valid AVI or MPEG-4 file." What went wrong?
Submitted by John (not verified) on Fri, 01/12/2006 - 00:31.try vlc media player..that lays avi files..it took me months to find..and convertx to dvd converts them..
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 16/11/2007 - 16:51.i have recently got utorrent and tried downloading many files, but they do not seem to work. i found your video and its what i have done, but mine says downloading but the speed always stays at 0.0kb/s
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 11/12/2006 - 17:49.can you help please?
this tutorial really helped my DL go alot faster! thanks for helping a clueless girl get some damn torrents!
Submitted by HeatherO (not verified) on Thu, 14/12/2006 - 01:55.how do i find out my port number..it's so frustrating..i've guessed at random numbers but i'm still stuck on 3.5% on my download after a whole night.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 20/12/2006 - 08:51.I'm kind of confused as to the question your asking here. You can find out the current Port Utorrent is using by opening your "Speed Guide" available through "Options" at the top of the program.
As for whether the port is working correctly or not is another thing. It can easily be checked again through the "Speed Guide". There will be a button that says "Test if port is forwarded properly". Another easier way of determining whether or not the port is being forwarded correctly is to look at the bottom system tray of Utorrent. If you see a green check mark, your port is being forwarded properly. If you see a yellow exclamation point in a triangle, it is not being forwarded properly.
www.portforward.com will allow you to choose your modem and will take you step-by-step on forwarding a port correctly in Utorrent.
Hope this helps! If you have any other questions don't hesitate to ask.
Shawn
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 13/07/2007 - 17:33.Hi,
I have done all that and it says Error. "Port not open". I have tried portforwarding website and done all that was told but it still will not work.
How else can I get it to work?
Please help.
Regards,
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 21/07/2008 - 03:31.Joe
I downloaded a game for my PSP using utorrent....now what? How do i get it to my PSP? How do I go about playing the game....HELP. Very frustrated.
Submitted by maverickz3 (not verified) on Fri, 29/12/2006 - 21:03.I want to ask if we can download files or softwares with utorrent from those sites which are not torrent sites?
Submitted by Aqeel Ahmed (not verified) on Sat, 06/01/2007 - 11:17.i love it
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Sat, 20/01/2007 - 16:31.I have downloaded a pc game using utorrent. how do i go on and play it???
Submitted by Vedmore (not verified) on Sun, 21/01/2007 - 11:06.plese reply!!
Hi, I've also downloaded a few things and am not sure how to go about getting a usable file out of the files i've downloaded.
This page tells you how do do it all.
http://forums.torrentspy.com/showthread.php?t=28422
Submitted by ToPpS (not verified) on Thu, 12/07/2007 - 09:06.Ah, this is great, I will link to this in the main article.
Submitted by Stavros on Thu, 12/07/2007 - 11:02.---
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Hi, I am new to using uTorrent, and was wondering what websites would I go to, to find music and stuff like that? I am looking for one, that is good with music. . . Thanks a bunches!!!
Submitted by Amy (not verified) on Tue, 30/01/2007 - 05:53.www.bittorrent.com has a wide range of music and videos, I suggest you go there.
Submitted by Stavros on Tue, 30/01/2007 - 10:52.---
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You're tutorial was surprisingly very easy to understand.
Submitted by Hanna (not verified) on Fri, 16/02/2007 - 03:58.I'm a total novice with Utorrent & all that but the video was very comprehensive.
:)
Are you a teacher or something like a teacher?
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. To be frank, I'm about as far from a teacher as you can get, since I get frustrated all the time with people for not being born with my knowledge. However, the method to teaching is quite simple, just assume the other person knows nothing, and say everything there is to say, and nothing more. That way, you get the lowest common denominator, and everyone's happy.
Submitted by Stavros on Fri, 16/02/2007 - 04:09.---
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You should tell us also about the Bandwith Allocation and setting it to High will help improve download speed
Just right click the file and you will see Bandwidth Allocation and set it to high FOR MORE SPPPPEEEDD!
:-)
Submitted by Crimson (not verified) on Sat, 17/02/2007 - 10:18.Crimson
Hmm, I don't really think that works. That option is for giving priority to some torrents over others, it probably can't speed your torrents up.
Submitted by Stavros on Sat, 17/02/2007 - 11:03.---
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Yea, but I used it once and i thought it sped it up by at least like 5 kb/s
Submitted by Crimson (not verified) on Sat, 17/02/2007 - 20:04.I don't know.
Wonderin if youcan help explain to me how to play games once downloaded. i have scarface downloading and it comes with a crack file. wot do i do? plz help.
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 21/02/2007 - 17:47.i've try to follow each step of downloading the files using utorrent..but i still can't download any files..is there is a different step of using utorrent 1.4 and utorrent 1.6.1?if there is a different,can you give me the step on how to use it..
Submitted by luna (not verified) on Tue, 27/02/2007 - 02:38.this may sound like a stupid question. but my utorrent will not download anything. with every file i try to download does not get seeds and it just says inactive.
Submitted by scindz on Thu, 08/03/2007 - 23:19.You probably have the number of torrents set to 0. Either change that or click "force start".
Submitted by Stavros on Fri, 09/03/2007 - 04:09.---
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