bittorrent - Sharing file using torrent

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2014-04
  • UnadulteratedImagination

    I have a large file (~1 TB) I want to share with a friend. I found that the best way to do that is to make a private torrent and share it with my friend. The problem is I am inside a university network. Can somebody tell me how/if it is possible for me to be visible to my friend to seed the torrent I created?

    PS : I created the torrent using the instructions here. But towards the end of the article, it says that you have to change the settings of your router to forward ports. (explained here).

    Can somebody please help me with that?

    • Answers
  • K7AAY

    The U can block, not only using the port, but on the content, so I would suggest requiring mandatory encryption in both your and his torrent app to prevent being blocked on content.


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  • Amr ElGarhy

    I don't know a lot about torrents, i am just a user, have utorrent, i search the web and download torrents using it.

    What i want now is to create torrents and share my files with others, whats steps i should follow?


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  • bandi

    Actually, you can create a torrent file with utorrent. Then you have to upload it to a tracker, and then redownload the tweaked torrent file (it will contain the tracker information). After it you just simply keep seeding for users.

  • Diago

    Jeff himself actually blogged about this when setting up the torrent for the StackOverflow database. He posted the how to here