5 Ways to Download from the Internet

Most people don’t realise how many different ways there are to download stuff from the internet, here are 5 of the most useful ones:

1. HTTP (Directly from the Internet)

• Download files directly from websites.

• Freeware and shareware
  • Download.com
  • Tucows.com

• Videos
  • Youtube.com (How to download from youtube)

• Open-source software (learn more)
  • Sourceforge.net

• Free Hosted files: rapidshare.com

2. Torrents

• A free peer-to-peer file sharing system (learn more)
• You download a small .torrent file link which you open with your Bittorrent software to download the file or files

• Software required:
  • Bittorrent
  • uTorrent
  • other torrent clients

• Torrent files search:
  • ScrapeTorrent
  • BiteNova

3. FTP

• Files hosted on servers using the File Transfer Protocol (FTP)

• FTP Software
  • FileZilla
  • GoFTP

• FTP file search:
  • ftpSearchEngines.com
  • filesearching.com

4. P2P

• Peer to Peer file sharing. Share some of your files and download files from others sharing.

• Software
  • LimeWire
  • Shareaza

• Simply download the software, install it, and start searching or browsing for files to download

5. News Servers (proper downloads, not news)

• Download any type of file hosted on news servers around the world
• You download a .nzb file (kinda like the link to the actual download) from an indexing site, open in with your newsreader software and it downloads!
• Learn all about it here: http://www.slyck.com/ng.php

• Software:
  • Altbinz

• File indexing sites:
  • newzleech.com
  • binsearch.info