Saturday, December 31, 2011

Start a torrent download from a PC to a remote computer



This is one of the most amazing techniques i've read on the internet,combining the power of the popular utorrent client,and the online cloud storage service Dropbox.
Dropbox,is a service,that provides you with a software that adds a folder named Dropbox to your Documents folder.Whatever you add to this folder automatically gets syncronized to all your other machines,or mobile phones with dropbox installed.
Now,follow the steps as mentioned below for the process to work.

  • Download and install Dropbox.Also,sign up on this website to create a free account.
  • Install Dropbox on your remote machine also,for example,your home PC.
  • On your machine,create a new folder inside the Dropbox folder.Name it "torrents".Just copy the torrent file(.torrent file)in this folder which you want to start on your home PC.
  • This file will be synced to your home PC.
  • Now configure utorrent on your home PC.Open utorrent,and go to option=>Preference=>Directories.
  • Check "Automatically load .torrents from",and select the torrent folder in MyDropbox folder.
  • you're done.Now just drag a torrent file on your machine in the torrent folder,and this file will be synced to your home PC,where utorrent is watching for .torrent file.As soon as the upload finishes,the torrent will start to download.

Hope you enjoyed this tutorial :)