Download a torrent client
The first step to get started is installing a torrent client application. Transmission is easy to use and setup, so I’ll be using it throughout this tutorial. Transmission is a nice small application with just the right amount of options to make newbies and advanced users feel at home.
Another decent application (but larger and more of a memory hog) is Azureus. For advanced users, it has many more options than Transmission, but more than necessary for most users. You can find more torrent clients on versiontracker.com.
For more advanced users, consider using uTorrent for XP running on Fusion (this is what I’m currently using).
Download transmission and install it. Read this article if you don’t know how to install applications in Mac OS X (in short: drag the downloaded file “Transmission.app” to your applications folder).
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hi. i have a mac…use utorrent but it sucks. trying to get transmission. problem is, everything is blocked by opendns crap. can barely dl torrents (they have to be txt files) so is there a way I can dl transmission “privately”/bypassing opendns since utorrent stopped working?
sf — i don’t think opendns has anything to do with this problem. i use it and have no problems with torrents. of course, you could always switch to your ISP’s dns instead of opendns if you think it’s a problem. maybe try a different browser, dns can’t block certain filetypes from downloading.
thank you for responding! i don’t exactly know how to do that. I live in apartments and they block anything to do with downloading even free music files from adult swim..i heard something about opendns being able to not allow a tracker to work? all my trackers are messed…they say not allowed and connection timed out. everything was working fine for the first few weeks i’ve been here it’s just the past week everything went down the tubes! =( any help much appreciated
humm — make sure the port is open. also, if you can’t download a torrent file, try something like that hides/masks/or changes your ip address. I forget the name of the one app now, but google around.
yeah i use the proxies to get to the sites and dl. ktunnel and hidemyass and such. port says not connectable? idk what that means..some are working now after i tweaked a few things…ugh! so confusing! maybe i’ll just wait it out…thank you for your help sir