10 Best Torrent Sites for 2011

Published on March 8, 2011 by Mr nCoded · No Comments

If you have been living on Mars for the last few years then you may not have heard of Torrents (or rather bit-torrent files), or some of the bigger sites that host and offer search facilities to find torrent files such as The Pirate Bay.

Copyright Infringement Warning: nCoded.com does not condone any illegal activity on the Internet, including the downloading and sharing of illegal files which may breech copyright, and or local laws.

Security Warning: please be very careful when downloading from torrent files as some of the downloads will no doubt contain malware. Make sure you install reliable and modern security applications to make sure you MS Windows computer is fully protected.

Technically bit-torrent uses the P2P protocol whilst transferring files across the Internet, but in a highly and efficient manner when compared to FTP. The actual torrent file contains information which allows the bit torrent client to gather computer addresses of where parts of the end file can be located and downloaded.

Unlike normal file transfers on the internet (that use the FTP protocol), The Bit Torrent Protocol can download different parts from numerous computers thereby speeding up the transfer quite considerable. Indeed some large players are now offering marketing publications such as User manual pdf’s as torrent files due to the massive take-up of this file format and protocol, as well as the speeds that can be achieved.

Installing the Bit Torrent Client Application

Now before you can start to download any torrent files (and hence the end files) you will need a Bit Torrent client. There are many out there, most of which are free and or Open Source. We particularly like uTorrent (because it is small, efficient, as well as looks and works well). You can download uTorrent from their website.

>> uTorrent

Just install the uTorrent application (as you would any other application) and once you have completed this, then when you next open a torrent file (.torrent) it will automatically open the correct application (e.g. uTorrent).

The Top 10 Best Torrent Sites for 2011

Now to take a look at the 10 hottest Bit Torrent websites on the Internet in 2011. We have decided to review our sites using the following criterea:

Quality of torrent files
Number of torrent files
Website ease of use
Website search facilities

Taking the following to guide us, the following 10 torrent sites are the ones that you should be bookmarking and using if you are currently looking for torrent files on the Internet.