The world is having a love-hate relationship with torrent. While there are those who hate the medium and think of it as nothing more than a law-breaking tool for digital pirates, there are others that see it as one of the better file sharing technologies for the future. Regardless of which side you’re on, there might be times when you need to download torrent files, but the Internet connection is blocking torrent access, or the device that you use doesn’t support torrent clients. What can you do?
Some tools can help you download torrent in these unfortunate scenarios, and one of the best alternatives is FileStream.me.
Download, Store, and Stream
You need to register before you can use the FileStream.me service. The service has just launched its new version. Currently there are two versions of Filestrem.me that you can use: the classic one and the new one. Both have similar features, but the new one comes with a more modern and intuitive interface.
Filestream.me works with a torrent file or magnet link. After having the file or link handy, log in to the site and upload the torrent file or paste in the magnet link.
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The service will download the file(s) contained in the torrent package into its server. You will need to wait for a few moments for the process to finish. The waiting time will depend heavily on the number of seeders available. Popular files usually take a few seconds to complete, while old files with nearly no seeders can take days or even months – if they will ever be finished at all.
After the files are downloaded and available in the Filestream.me server, you can download them as if they were direct download files from a very fast server. The download speed is virtually as fast as your Internet connection can allow, and the process is done via SSL (Secured Socket Layer) and is safe and anonymous. You can choose to download a package of torrent files as compressed zip files, or you can download only the individual files within the package.
As a bonus, if the files that you download include media files, you can opt to stream the media files from Filestream.me instead of downloading them to your computer.
File Management and Limitations
Other than uploading torrent and downloading files, the service also offers basic file management. You can create folders to organize your files, copy and paste files among folders, delete the ones that you don’t need, and move around folders with a similar navigation method to Finder or Windows Explorer.
While Filestream.me is a free service for anyone to use, it offers a paid upgrade. The benefits of becoming a paid member are no file size limitation for the torrent and no time limit for how long you can store your files on the server.
The free options restrict the size of torrent files that you can upload to 1 GB and will keep them for three days before they are deleted. If you are using the free option, make sure you download the files from the server within this three-day period.
Going Mobile and Beyond
If you are a mobile user, you can also bypass the torrent limitation by using Filestream.me via your mobile browser. As long as your mobile is connected to the Internet, you can access torrent files anywhere, download them to your mobile, or stream the content to save the storage.
There’s also an Android app available on the PlayStore, but there’s no iOS version – and looking at Apple’s app policy, iPhone and iPad users will always have to stick with the browser version.
Do you use torrent? Have you tried Filestrem.me? Or do you use other alternatives like Zbigz? Please share your thoughts and experiences using the comments below.
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Want to download torrents on iPad at full speed, but afraid of jailbreaking your iOS device? Wondering if you can download torrents on your iPhone without jailbreak? Well, that should not be a problem if you follow the method featured in this article.
Introduction
Previously, I had written a post featuring the best torrent downloader app for an iPhone. In that I had mentioned a much easier way to download torrents on your iPhone, iPad or even on an iPod touch. But there’s a catch in that.
These torrent downloading apps can be installed only on a jailbroken iOS device from third party app stores like Cydia. This can be a problem to some iOS users for whom jailbreaking may be a strict no-no. However, the good news is that, there is a work around to this problem.
In this article I am sharing a new idea that would help you download torrents on your iOS device without the need of a jailbreak.
What are torrents?
Torrenting is a file sharing protocol on the internet that is fundamentally different from all other ways of downloading a file. In the traditional way of downloading a file, a file can only be downloaded from a single source on the internet. However, in torrents’ case, a file can be downloaded, bit by bit, from the source of upload as well as from fellow downloaders. Hence, by using up multiple sources of downloading simultaneously, torrents can potentially increase the speed of download of a file when compared to direct downloads.
While downloading a torrent file there are three types of sharing sources that you will come across.
- Users who have completed their download and are sharing/seeding it for others to download are called seeders. The more seeders a file has, the faster the download is bound to complete.
- Users who only have a portion of the file, but are uploading it and downloading the rest at the same time are called peers. Peers are very useful in increasing the overall speed of downloading a torrent file.
- Users who have just started downloading the torrent and have no portion of it to share with the others are called leechers.
The torrent files themselves are just trackers that keep track of the different download locations in real time. They manage the seeding and leeching of a file to different computers.
Why Torrent?
The internet has developed rapidly in the past two decades, but not everyone can afford a high-speed internet connection yet. As a result, slower internet speeds may make it cumbersome for such users to download heavy sized files.
In that context torrents have emerged as the easiest means to share large-sized files among multiple internet users. Additionally, the speed of downloading torrents may not be limited to your ISP speed. Using proper porting techniques anyone may get download speeds that are much faster than what they are otherwise used to.
No Torrent Clients in App Store
Android users have access to loads of torrent clients such as bittorrent and utorrent on Google’s Play Store. These apps can download torrents without jailbreak or root on android devices. At the same time, iOS users struggle to find even a single such app in Apple‘s App Store.
The reason?
Well, over the years Apple has been keen on implementing copy right infringement laws a tad more seriously than many of its rivals in the tech industry. The curators of Apple’s App Store try very hard not to allow torrenting to enter the iOS platform. And they do succeed in their efforts for the most part.
That’s where iOS jailbreaking comes into the picture. Jailbreaking unlocks a number of commonly used features that iOS users are otherwise deprived of. One such feature would be the ability to download third party apps like utorrent.
But, if you are one of those users who are skeptical of jailbreaking your device then the following guide is for you. Use it to simply download torrents on iPad without jailbreak.
- Download RecBoot – Enter/Exit iPad Recovery
- Download Zeusmos – Free iPad App Market
How to Download Torrents on iPad (iOS)
In this guide we are going to use a download manager such as ‘iDownloader’ or ‘UC Browser’. We shall use this managerto download torrents so that no jailbreak is required as promised earlier. We will also use two other websites in the process to download torrents at high speeds.
Requirements before downloading torrents on iPad
1. Install a download manager like iDownloader or UC browser that can be quickly downloaded from Apple’s App Store within a minute or two.
2. Secondly, you will need a torrent website for browsing and saving the torrents you would like to download. For this you will have to look for a torrent website that is online or active. A simple Google search for active torrent sites should suffice.
Steps to download torrents on iPad
Step 1 : Open iDownloader or UC browser on your iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch and open the internet browser given in that app. Browsers of different download managers work differently.
Step 2 : Go to any working torrent site. Here, we have used “Piratebay” as an example. You can use any working torrent site of your choice. In that torrent site, search for the legal torrent you want to download.
Step 3 : Long tap the Download link of that particular torrent.
Step 4 : You will get a pop-up with 3 options – ‘Open’, ‘Copy’, ‘Cancel’. Select ‘Copy‘ by tapping on it.
Step 5 : Now, open a new tab on your browser and go to www.zbigz.com.
Step 6 : On the Zbigz website you’ll see a URL field. Paste the Torrent link (which you had copied in step 4) in there and tap on the GO button.
Step 7 : Wait for a moment. Zbigz will now create the download link.
Step 8 : After you get the link, just tap on the download button in the shape of a “down-arrow” which is located beside the file name.
You should see these three options – ‘Download’, ‘Open’ and ‘Copy Link’. Choose the ‘Download‘ option in order to download the file to your iPad.
Alternatively, you can just tap on the download icon in the shape of an ‘up-arrow’ at the bottom of the page in iDownloader. The downloaded file is stored in the ‘Files‘ segment of iDownloader.
That’s it. You have now successfully downloaded a torrent file to your iDevice without having to jailbreak it.
Update
It is common practice to use ‘Safari‘ in the process of downloading files from sites like ZbigZ. But, the Safari browser sometimes downloads the files and other times streams them directly, which can be a problem. So, sticking to the likes of UC browser and iDownloader can be the better option.
Got a question? Please feel free to voice out in the comments below.