Limewire, if I recall correctly, lets you search for a file and it searches each nodes (user) shares for files with that name. Torrents contain a collection of data like entire albums and such instead of single songs although you can with most bittorrent clients (I believe transmission can do this) deselect items in the collection that you don't want. Torrents are in a central location and use a tracker to keep track of (imagine that) how many people have the entire torrent and how many only have parts of it. You also download pieces of the torrent from all the users that have it so it's much faster than Limewire which will only download from the peer you download the file from.
This is so important!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you haven't done this, then you're really crippling your potential speeds.
This page might help.
How on earth can running bittorrent on your machine reduce the power transmission of the antenna of your router
. Now, that out of the way , download transmission and forward your ports.It's different for each router. The website below has instructions for quite a few of them.
Nice article. You made a small mistake, though: Azureus is not the only multiplatform client in your roundup - Transmission is multiplatform, too. Available for OS X, Linux, *BSD and BeOS.
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