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Using Azureus ‘Magnet Links’

March 12, 08 by sharky   1,553  views  

Azureus is a BitTorrent client that exclusively supports special torrent magnet links that run through their own Distributed Hash Table (DHT) network. Instead of downloading the torrent from a web server (i.e. torrent site / tracker), you download it directly from the seeds / leechers. The biggest advantage is that you might be able to download the contents of the torrent even if the tracker is down or temporarily offline (or there are no seeds).

Configuring Azureus for Magnet Links

You’ll need a version of the Azureus client that is higher than 2.3. There are two settings within Azureus that must be enabled in order to use magnet links. By default, these are already set to ON, so no further modification is required. You can check if these two are already selected in the TOOLS > OPTIONS menu (see below). NOTE: We used Azureus v2.5 for these examples, and NOT the new Azureus Vuze client (v3.0.5). The older version can be found here on filehippo.com.

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