BitTorrent peer to peer file sharing is still going strong after all these years. This is even after attempts by several countries to ban tracker sites like The Pirate Bay and others at the ISP level. Even though torrents are mostly associated with downloading pirated and copyright infringing files, there are still many legitimate uses that rely on the same peer to peer (P2P) distribution method.
Lots of free software is offered for download over torrent P2P, such as Linux ISOs. In the past, game developers have also used it to distribute game patches and updates. You can even download drivers for utilities like Snappy Driver Installer using P2P. Sadly a number of organizations can block the use of torrent software as it is a huge drain on the network because it connects to many other computers at the same time.
Founded in 2003, The Pirate Bay (commonly abbreviated TPB) is called the âking of torrentsâ. TPB is the best torrent website at present and lists online index of digital content of mostly entertainment media, where visitors can search, download and contribute magnet links and torrent files, which facilitate peer-to-peer file sharing among users of the BitTorrent protocol.
Even your ISP could throttle torrents and slow them to a crawl of only a few KB/s for the same reason. To get around the restriction on using dedicated torrent clients or ISP imposed speed throttling, there are a few things you can try to still be able to use torrents. Here we have 9 options for you to look at.
Download Torrents With a Torrent Client Browser Extension
The Java Bitlet tool used to be a great way to download torrents within your browser but sadly itâs no longer available after Java was phased out in all major browsers. An alternative is using a browser extension for Chrome or Firefox. There are very few of these around despite the hundreds of thousands of extensions available.
1. JSTorrent Lite For Chrome
The Lite version of JSTorrent is cut down from the paid Chrome app so itâs more feature limited than it would otherwise be. The biggest restriction is a limitation to 20 downloads before the app stops you downloading. An easy way around this is simply uninstalling and reinstalling JSTorrent to reset the counter.
JSTorrent Lite accepts both magnet links and local/remote .torrent files. Thereâs also the option to stream video files while downloading. Select the video file, click the Files tab and press Stream to open the player window. Adjusting the number of peers or active torrents can be controlled via the Settings window but setting speed limits is not available in this free version.
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2. Bitford For Chrome
If your torrenting needs are quite basic but you want upload and download speed controls which JSTorrent Lite doesnât offer, Bitford is worth a try.
Bitford doesnât accept magnet links, only local .torrent files, so itâs more tricky after visiting sites like The Pirate Bay. However, magnet links can easily be converted to torrent files with a service like Magnet2Torrent. Control the upload and download speed via the two boxes at the bottom. Press the Save button to save individual files to your drive or Remove to cancel the download.
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3. Torrent Client Extension for Firefox Based Browsers
Firefox has a torrent client extension called Torrent Tornado but since the extensions API changed in Firefox 57, that extension and many others donât work anymore. An older version of Firefox would obviously be outdated in terms of security updates, so isnât recommended. If you prefer using Firefox, a partial solution is to run something similar that still uses the old extensions system.
There are a few forked versions of Firefox around that still retain the old extension API. This means you can use Torrent Tornado and most other legacy extensions that no longer work. We have tested Torrent Tornado with Waterfox, Pale Moon and Seamonkey and they all seem to work fine.
Torrent Tornado has enough functions for most average users and it accepts .torrent files, magnet links, HTTP/FTP URLs or torrent hashes. Press the Add new torrent button to start and after adding the source for the torrent, it will show the details for the download and then offer the choice of which files to download from within the torrent. The small Settings button controls options such as save folder, file associations, memory cache, maximum peers and download speeds.
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Note: Torrent Tornado will install directly from the add-on page if you are using Waterfox. If you use Pale Moon or Seamonkey, download the extension file first and then drop it onto the browser extensions window.
Download Torrents With an Online Torrent Client
This method has a few advantages. It bypasses P2P traffic shaping from an ISP and also keeps you safe from anti-P2P organizations monitoring copyright infringing torrents. You are not torrenting, the service is. You merely download the finished file just like any other file. A drawback is most free services are quite limited unless you pay for a subscription.
4. Seedr
We are looking at Seedr because itâs one of the more generous free services. Seedr doesnât restrict the download speed of completed files from its servers. The file limit is 2GB which is both the overall storage capacity and the maximum size of a single torrent download. This can be increased to 6GB by accomplishing tasks such as inviting friends, tweeting a review or pinning a Seedr image on your Pinterest.
Seedr accepts local torrent files, magnet links or a URL of a remote torrent file. You can only transfer one torrent at a time to the Seedr servers but can download multiple completed torrents at once. We found the download speed satisfactory and our files downloaded at a good rate. Thereâs also a Seedr Chrome extension for directly adding links.
Another service currently with a 2GB file limit and unlimited bandwidth is Transfercloud. There are other services available like Filestream, Bitport, and ZBigZ but they have low file size limits or slow download speeds. They work but we believe they are too limited to be of any great use.
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Use a Browser With Built in Torrent Client
Opera used to have an integrated torrent client but it removed this ability when switching to the Chromium browsing engine in 2012. You can still download Opera 12.18 and use the torrent client, but itâs better to use a more up to date solution. Another browser with a torrent client is Citrio but itâs very outdated.
5. Torch Browser
Something more recent that includes a built in torrent client is Torch Browser. Torch also includes a download accelerator, social sharing button, games portal, music portal, media player, and a media grabber that downloads on page audio and video.
After install simply press the slider then the green button in the Torch toolbar to turn on torrenting and open the torrent client window. Itâs possible to just drop a torrent file onto the window or you can open the Add Torrent dialog to search for a file or paste a magnet link into the box. Choose the save to location and which files inside the torrent to download, then press OK to start.
The torrent Settings window allows for adjustment of a number of options commonly found in torrent clients. These include randomize or change the listening port, use DHT/PEX/LPD, adjust the number of connections and active torrents, speed limits, seeding limits and video streaming playback options. Youâll want to right click and remove the Torch Offers advertising extension.
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Using a File Download Manager
While you might not be able to install or run a dedicated torrent client, it may be possible to run a standard file download manager. There are many around that handle normal file downloads but a few free managers are also able to download torrents. Flashget and Free Download manager are two that can handle torrents.
6. Free Download Manager
Weâll look at Free Download Manager (FDM) because itâs still actively supported. During install, FDM will offer to associate itself with .torrent files and magnet links. Itâs best to leave the setting as is to make things easier. When the program launches drop a .torrent file onto the window, press the menu button top right to manually search for a torrent file or press the paste button to paste in a remote torrent or magnet URL.
To control speeds, Free Download Manager has Low, Medium or High speed limit modes and a Snail Mode which will concede bandwidth to other traffic. Traffic limit speeds, connections and a few torrent specific options like DHT, used ports and port forwarding can be controlled via the Settings window. Right click on the torrent download to set its priority, whether to seed, setup scheduling or to force a recheck/reannounce.
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Multi Host Torrent Converter
Itâs worth noting first that a multi host file download service is not free and costs from around â¬4 Euros for a month depending on who you go with. These services are mainly for heavy downloaders using cyberlocker sites like Rapidgator or Uploaded. Some also include other download services like Usenet or BitTorrent. If you want to get large torrents that free services like Seedr canât handle, this is a cheap paid option.
7. AllDebrid
The service we have used for several years is AllDebrid although there are similar services like RealDebrid that can also handle torrents. Alternatively, you can go for a bandwidth based service such as Premium.to. AllDebrid works similar to the free online clients but files are uploaded to another cyberlocker site called UptoBox. Then you paste the UptoBox links into the AllDebrid downloader to download as normal.
Visit the Torrent Converter page and either paste a Magnet link or click the Upload box to add a .torrent from your computer. Then do something else while waiting for the torrent to finish. When the process is complete, click on Show Links and then Download All to send the links directly to the Downloader box. The limits are 250GB torrent size, 30 simultaneous downloads and a 72 hour time limit for the torrent to finish.
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Download Torrents With WebTorrent
WebTorrent is potentially useful because it can be used in most major browsers. Itâs slightly different from traditional torrents because WebTorrent uses WebRTC as the transfer protocol instead of TCP/uTP. A number of services are using this method with many of them being video streaming sites, one of the most notable is the video hosting site BitChute.
A drawback with WebTorrent is you can only connect to other WebRTC enabled torrent clients. This rules out connecting to seeds or peers from popular clients like uTorrent or qBitTorrent. The list of supported clients is small with the WebTorrent desktop client and Vuze being the two most well known. Therefore downloads are more likely to be unavailable or slower than a standard torrent due to fewer available connections.
8. Instant.io
This website is very easy to use and it allows you to share a torrent with others or download a torrent from your favorite repository. Simply paste a magnet link or info hash for the torrent into the lower box and press Download or browse for a local torrent file with the Choose Files button.
If the file being downloaded is video or audio it can be streamed while downloading and played directly from the page using a player that appears. Any accompanying files like images, subtitles or text can also be viewed and downloaded separately. If the torrent contains several separate files there will be a download all as zip link to download the files as a single archive.
Note that Instant.io doesnât always work, sometimes it will just sit there showing zero peers or do nothing at all, even after several minutes. The next option seems to be more reliable. Guitar amplifier and effects software.
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9. Brave Browser
The Chromium based Brave browser includes an integrated WebTorrent extension that works pretty well. Brave also has some other interesting features like Brave Rewards and the Brave Shields privacy and ad blocker panel. All you have to do is paste a magnet link into the address bar or attempt to download a .torrent file and the browser will intercept it as a WebTorrent.
The only real drawback here is there is no option to download a multi-file torrent in one package and you will have to click to download each file individually. WebTorrent can be turned on/off from the settings window. Click on a video file to open another tab with a video player so you can stream while downloading. How to convert exe file into iso image.
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maryann2 weeks ago
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I donât understand people who want to protect themselves free. I have already used Boxopus for several years. I know it is not the best service at the market but Boxopus.com provides the best price-quality ratio. Now I pay less than $5 monthly for it but at any moment I can watch favorites movies on my smart TV by using Boxopus ftp. Itâs very easy!
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Jeremy8 months ago
If I used Torrent Tornado or any similar Firefox plugin on the Tor browser, will Tor still protect my anonymity when Torrenting?
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Hi Admin Sir, Thanks for another wonderful article. ( Seedr is best! )
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somebody9 months ago
one of these ways actually worked for me, even in a blocked network, thank you!
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Ali11 months ago
Without Installation , mean No Installation. Reply
How should we download a file without install. No matter installing torrent app or plugin or anything else. Without installing anything. How.? This is the bloody main question. You go to library and you need a file to download with torrent, but we all know nobody can install any app on the libraryâs computer. Now tell me how.?!
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Kasbu2 years ago
Thanks! You can also use torrentleecher.ga to stream movies or download larger files.
Once you start the torrent, it will continue downloading online even if your computer is off â so you can come back at download it all.
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I donât agree with the authorâs opinion on other popular names⦠zbigz may be worse regarding user-friendliness but together with bitport are both great for use and to me not restrictive in any way.
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HAL9000 Author2 years ago
Then your requirements are far lower than most other torrent users. ZBigZ has a 1GB limit and a max download speed of 150KB/s, Bitport has 1GB and a limit of 1 torrent per day. For any self-respecting torrenter, those limits are far too small to be of any real use. How do you call those limits ânot restrictive in any wayâ???
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Meh2 years ago
Stay away from Torch if you pirate. It should might as well be a honey pot.
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boris3 years ago
thanks for zbigz
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Warning about Bitlet: While it may be true that âyou donât need to download or install any BitTorrent clientâ you DO have to download and install what appears to be Bitletâs âparentâ or owner, i.e., GitHub. I donât like finding out AFTER I get to a site to download something Iâve just been told about on another site and finding out I HAVE to download another app to get the one I came for. But because the article above made Bitlet sound so enticing I went ahead. Could not go through with it though as my gut kept telling me âno.â So as soon as I had GitHub installed I pulled up my Iobit Uninstaller to remove it. IU uses the appâs own uninstaller first, then runs a scan for any leftover files. GitHub had 6179 leftover files that took 12 minutes to delete.
I would love to try Bitlet, but not at the cost of inviting what appears to be another Google-sized intruder into my computer. Just FYI.
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HAL9000 Author3 years ago
The Bitlet project is pretty much dead and the website to download torrents has gone, now it redirects to the source code for the library at Github.
Github is a repository for open source projects and is not the owner of Bitlet so you didnât have to download and install any extra software from there, it only hosts the source code which can be downloaded as a Zip file if anyone wanted to look at it.
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GitHub is a completely legitimate application and is linked to software development and maybe millions of people use it, including myself. I donât understand why BitLet makes you use it, but GitHub is completely safe.
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carl3 years ago
Has anyone tried torrentsafe.com?
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Seems like a great site, but it will screw you if you add a torrent that it cannot download (low seeders for example). Every torrent you add, even if you remove it because it isnât going anywhere, or you find another source or torrent you like better will add to your 4 torrent a month limit (and I kind of feel like this is an intentional hook as long as the site has been up to try to force you into the desperate move of paying). If Im going to pay anyone, it would be seedr because at least if you stay within the 2.5 gig limit (you can easily increase it to for free), you get unlimited torrents from it, and I believe in rewarding more honorable policies.
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Charles Bentley3 years ago
Iâd like to recommend Offcloud.com also
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Offcloud will be useless for most people because unless you pay, the free account only allows 3 downloads per month. The only reason it might come in useful is it has a 10GB storage limit so can get bigger torrent files. A useful complement to other services but definitely not a first choice.
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Pedro3 years ago
Offcloud is the only thing on this website that actually worked for me
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ZBIGZ offers only 1 GB space [the file size > 1 GB] in the free account.
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vijay3 years ago
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A great alternative would be Bitport.io Reply
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Stoobie3 years ago
I only had the patience to try the first three from the article above. Even with confirming my email address, Bitport.io was easier and faster than all of them. Hey moderators, this one should top your list! Thank you so much, Adam!!!
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Weâve talked about Bitport in another article: Reply
https://www.raymond.cc/blog/bitlet-bypasses-streamyx-torrent-throttle-allowing-full-download-speed/ Compared to similar services like FileStream and Seedr, Bitport is far too restricted to be of much use to many people.
Bill4 years ago
Hi Raymond,
Always GREAT! Thanks!
I was getting myself setup to download torrents without using a client by using BitLet. When I went back to get my Mass Storage Drivers Packâs torrent link, my click was intercepted by my âFree Download Managerâ, and I was very surprised to be reminded that this program also handles torrents. So where I expected to download only the torrent link, FDM automatically downloaded the actual driverpacks! FDM is true to its name, it is FREE, and they also have a portable version too.
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KNemo4 years ago
You might consider put.io too. It have a similar service.
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Thanks zbigZ is very nice!
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:)4 years ago
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please add torrent2ddl.com in this list.
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john5 years ago
How old is this post ? 8 year old comments ?
you can also put seedr.co.il on that list Reply
seems less hack-ey then some
The post was updated and rewritten in 2013, as it says at the top.
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ravi chandel5 years ago
are this all open source softwares that are freely downloaded
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They are not all open source but 4 of the 5 are free to use, one is through a paid service.
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Emeka5 years ago
wow!!! Thanks man. Exactly what i was looking for. Was able to download my solaris tutorial torrent files. Reply
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ProHackerz096 years ago
Thanks for posting this. All the torrent clients I used like uTorrent has slow download speed. Now Iâm using Torrent2exe. It works great and the download speed is fast. You can disable it from starting up by using Task Manager on Windows 8 or msconfig on Windows 7.
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Thanks for the super useful article! Reply
I would also like to suggest a different tool that downloads torrents- itâs called Torch browser. Thatâs how I downloaded my torrents in the past few monthes and itâs awesome! You should check it out.
phate10 years ago
Bitlet isnât a bad program, but I had a lot of trouble finding torrents meta file, instead just download the torrent to your computer, then choose the âselect local .torrentâ option, right next to âdownload torrent.â Then all you have to do is choose the torrent you saved to your computer. Easy
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Super collapse game free download. BiltLet is great if you donât have any connection issue with your firewall, connection speed and router.
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bHoKAAL StYLe12 years ago
thanks a lot mateâ¦solves my prob.
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Bitlet is more like the DAP of torrents. :)
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Tartooob12 years ago
Wow, Great site !! Loved the idea of it
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