How does it feel to explain how torrents work for someone who just knows how to download from download.com? If you’re a geek, I think you get what I mean. There are definitely numbers of ways to retrieve and share files across the internet. If you have those hundred MB files, you would visit mediafire, xdrive and the famous rapidshare.

But, being a hardcore downloader or a warez fanatic i could say. You would go for p2p (peer-to-peer) clients, ftp protocols, and do away with http transfers. The torrent technology comes to the scene. The BitTorrent protocol was designed by Bram Cohen in April 2001. This was a new protocol for the p2p community which is definitely enjoyed by people today.

Download sections on websites have these large files to share, ranging from 200 mb , 700 mb to gigabyte sized files. I could take linux distro sites as an example. You could download their live cd and live dvd’s through torrent clients. Most websites, prefer to use this method to share their huge files to the world.

What is the advantage of using such method rather than settling with the old http transfer? Originally, the HTTP protocol was designed for webpages and not for downloads that takes hours to finish. With this protocol, there is less strain that’s happening to the server side which host these files. Although, they still need to host the files, there will be small data request across different TCP sockets that runs and downloads the torrent with their torrent clients. The more people are downloading, the faster your torrent goes. This is contrary to HTTP transfers, which splits up down stream speeds with reference to the number of users connected at the same time.

An ordinary end-user knows only limited file types when it comes to softwares and installations. That is obviously the “.exe” or an executable. There are many torrent sites across the internet. And if you’re one of these people, you would think that torrents are just hoax downloads. They claim to have a size of 5 gigabytes, but you downloaded it for less than a second.

A bit torrent file (*.torrent) contains information about the piece structure of the download. Which is then interpreted by your torrent client. How could you explain these complexities to an ordinary user? Then, why not just give him/her an “.exe” file and throw away those .torrent.

Don’t get me wrong here, you could actually convert a .torrent file into an executable file. I had this thoughts long time ago. But, i never realized that this really existed. Let me introduce to you torrent2exe. This webscript converts your .torrent files into an executable file that leaves you no hassles in setting up a torrent client when your on the go.

How to use:
1. You could go visit their site and upload your recently downloaded torrent and press the start download button.

Step 1: Go to http://btjunkie.org/ or any other torrent sites and download your favorite torrent.
Step 2: Go to http://torrent2exe.com/ and upload your downloaded torrent.
Step 3: Click “start download” and save it on your computer
Step 4: You may now double-click the exe and start downloading.

2. Another way is directly appending the URL of the torrent file into their script. Here is how:
http://torrent2exe.com/scripts/get_exe.php?url=URLOFTORRENTFILE

Step 1: Go to http://btjunkie.org/ or any other torrent sites.
Step 2: Right-click the download button or image and choose the options that is available for your browser (IE: copy shortcut , Firefox: copy link location).
Step 3: Append the URL to the end of this URL
“http://torrent2exe.com/scripts/get_exe.php?url=”. Here is an example.
http://torrent2exe.com/scripts/get_exe.php?url=http://www.torrent.com/ codcutters.torrent.
Step 4: Paste it on your browser to start the conversion and save it on your computer.
Step 5: You may now double-click the exe and start downloading.

That’s a one big saver for you geek bud.