Stopping uploading (seeding) is simple: simply select the torrent that’s complete, and select Stop at the top. If in some cases, your Internet is lagging though or if you’re not legally allowed to upload music but are allowed to download, then I can sympathize with you. I usually don’t prefer for people to stop seeding (sharing is caring). From there, select Downloads and you can change the location within the bar. Simply click the Vuze menu, and select Preferences. You can always change the location from within Vuze. By default, Vuze creates a Vuze Downloads folder in your Downloads folder. You can set a location for your files to get downloaded into. This prompts the client to refresh the list and hopefully find more peers on, which you can obtain the file from. If/when a download ever appears to slow down or freeze, it never hurts to right-click a torrent and click Update Tracker. You’ll notice that the speeds are dramatically faster and often quite capable of reaching breakneck speeds. If you’re given an option to go with 300 seeds and 500 leeches or 50 seeds and 30 leeches, go with the torrent with 50 seeds. (In the picture, the green numbers represent the number of seeds and the blue zero is the number of leechers.) You want this number to be as high as possible! Basically, always pick the torrent with the highest number of seeds (hosts/uploaders) to leeches (downloaders). )) What is a seed-to-leech ratio?Ī seed-to-leech ratio is the number of seeders to leechers. (Although brushing up on legality issues should be a priority as well. There are tons of confusing things about torrents: trackers, specific files, and legality issues - but ultimately, the only thing you need to know is that the seed-to-leech ratio needs to be high. The torrent client isn’t exactly the most important part - the torrent is! Here, I’ll introduce you to two sites that aggregate torrents, meaning they gather torrents from around the Internet and index them, and thus allow you to sort from a greater variety. Make sure you’re familiar with the UI! You should be familiar with where the download progress bar is, where the expected time remaining is, and how to set upload/download max limits (can usually be done by right-clicking). You can usually get by with any ol’ client, as long as you can interact with it.

As a Mac user, I prefer Vuze, although I’ve heard great things about Transmission and uTorrent as well.

You’ll need a BitTorrent client for your computer.

Mac torrent sites