aTorrent
After the closure of Megaupload and other direct download services, the P2P download systems (from user to user) have been the most used. Among them are BitTorrent, well known on Internet for their comfort, download speed and operation An issue that can now also be taken advantage of by smartphones and tablets with operating system Android thanks to the application aTorrent We explain everything below.
Torrents are files that work with the BitTorrent protocol This is a specific code for the exchange of files on the Internet in a comfortable way And it is that it has the possibility of using a network of other users' computers from which to download the different parts of a file at the same time as you share A service that allows you to pause and resume downloads at any time, all without collapsing our Internet access.
Now, with aTorrent, we can also use our terminal to download , without the need for a computer or cables to pass, if we wish, the content downloaded to the mobile or tabletThus, aTorrent is a client of BitTorrent, which works in the same way and under the same precepts. It requires a file Torrent that connects our device with the different points of the network from which to download the file, be it of any type To do this, aTorrent account with a search engine based on Google In it we must look for the file we want to download, showing different possible outcomes.
Once the appropriate page is found, all we have to do is download said Torrent file that corresponds to the desired content and execute it with aTorrent This will launch the application and the download process This can be followed from the tab Downloads of the application. In addition, it is possible to download several contents at the same time, although this affects the speed and timethat need to be downloaded.In this tab we can see a progress bar and different data of interest. The name of the content, the download percentage and the approximate time it will take appear at the top of the bar, while at the bottom we see theloaded weight and total document and the speed of unloading.
We can also follow these data from the notifications bar, where we will have a section with all this information, thus preventing us from accessing the application each time we want to consult it. Finally, the downloaded contents are collected in the Complete tab, to avoid the user having to search for them through the terminal's folders. It is worth highlighting the settings possibilities of this application, which are located in the Settings menuHere we can establish that only downloads over a WiFi connection, avoiding exhausting our data rate , limit the bandwidth to not block other resources that use the Internet, choose the location of the contents or even choose the download ports. Useful questions for users with advanced knowledge
In short, a step that was inevitable given the trend of having all the benefits of a computer on current portable devices The best thing is that aTorrent can be downloaded completely free It is developed only for devices with Android, so it can be obtained through Google Play