To the best of my knowledge, tomorrow I will be moving from the sludge covered, eternally slow continent of dialup internet and onto the land of milk and honey - cable. Why do you care, you ask? Because I need your awesomely awesome non dial-up friendly links. That means movies you think I may want to see, anime, youtube clips, instructions on how and what a torrent is, and anything else that you think I need to see that I couldn't before.
Thanks in advance!
Full Version: Cable Internetz!
Cable is the best way to access teh internetz and all it's illegal downloads, porn and watching people making fools of themselves on YouTube. You'll find that there's not a lot out there that isn't non-dialup friendly and any sluggishness is normally due to a website being hammered, rather than you having a piddly little connection.
A torrent is basically a method of file distribution, mainly for larger files. What happens is someone with a file will prepare it for download and distribute a torrent file (this is a seed), which basically is a very small file which explains where this file can be found. When someone downloads this torrent file, their torrent download program (such as Azureus or uTorrent) will get this information and attempt to contact. Once done, it will then download the file. It tends to do this in chunks, so it has less issues with downloading.
As people download the file (these are the peers the portions of the file they've downloaded become available for other peers to download as well. And once someone else has downloaded the file, they then become a seed for the file too. Unless they are goits and delete it, which basically makes them leeches.
Yes, it all sounds a bit complex, and it probably is, but you don't need to worry too much about it. All you need to do to get started is:
There are many legitimate uses for torrenting, but most people use them to distibute whacking great big files such as game ISOs, DVD and HD movies and the entire back catalogue of some band or other. But I don't advocate such illegal activity.
A torrent is basically a method of file distribution, mainly for larger files. What happens is someone with a file will prepare it for download and distribute a torrent file (this is a seed), which basically is a very small file which explains where this file can be found. When someone downloads this torrent file, their torrent download program (such as Azureus or uTorrent) will get this information and attempt to contact. Once done, it will then download the file. It tends to do this in chunks, so it has less issues with downloading.
As people download the file (these are the peers the portions of the file they've downloaded become available for other peers to download as well. And once someone else has downloaded the file, they then become a seed for the file too. Unless they are goits and delete it, which basically makes them leeches.
Yes, it all sounds a bit complex, and it probably is, but you don't need to worry too much about it. All you need to do to get started is:
- Grab yourself a torrent downloading program. There are loads out there but I'd recommend uTorrent as it is pretty solid and doesn't soak up so many system resources
- Find a source of torrent files. There are a few around, you can search for them or ask around
- Find what you want to download and grab the associated torrent file
- Run the torrent file - your torrent downloader will pick up all the information
- Sit back and wait for your file to appear!
There are many legitimate uses for torrenting, but most people use them to distibute whacking great big files such as game ISOs, DVD and HD movies and the entire back catalogue of some band or other. But I don't advocate such illegal activity.
You should totally clicky linky when your cablwebz works 
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