Double click on the connection used to connect to the LAN. Go to Network Connections in the control panel. This step explains the setup for Windows, the next step for Mac. This step only needs to be done to the computer acting as a tracker! Then you need to give the tracker a static ip address. The BitTorrent clients should be installed on all the computers and the computers connected to the LAN. Network Switch Picture by Wikimedia Commons user Zuzu I am not responsible if this is used in an illegal way or if you somehow mess up your computer or network. Also, this is meant for LEGAL use such as home videos or sending large amounts of your pictures to other home computers. Note: I will not be explaining the basics of BitTorrent in this instructable. If you only need to transfer files to a small number of computers or the files are very small, it is much easier and quicker to use a flash drive or other removable media. When to Use this MethodBitTorrent is made for transferring large files to a large number of computers. This is not covered in this instructable though. This Instructable only covers operating this on a LAN, but you can use port forwarding if you wish to share the files with people on the Internet. Luckily, uTorrent has the option to act as a tracker. Of course, you may not want to use a public tracker. When you are using a lot of computers with large files, BitTorrent works best. An FTP server would also be possible, but it would not work well when several computers were downloading from it at the same time. While you could put it on a flash drive or CD/DVD, you would have to go to each computer an copy the files and it may take a while to copy all the files (especially with flash drives, most have bad read/write speeds). Sometimes you may need to transfer files over a network to several computers.
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