Building a BitTorrent Rig with the Zotac ZBOX Nano Plus
Configuring the BitTorrent Search
In the old days, you download Vuze and it would come with a multitude of search engines that helped you find any file you were looking for. Because P2P has been on the knife’s edge of being legal in most countries around the world, Vuze like many other companies that deal in P2P software are very careful about the services they provide. In order to shield themselves legally, Vuze doesnt provide direct access to search engines that may link to sites where copyright-protected software or multimedia exists.
Lucky for us, however, they do not prevent users from making this choice on their own. What we need to do is select and install the search engines that we want to use. To do this, you need to use your favorite browser and search engine (ie. Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.) and do a search for Search Engine Templates for Vuze. You should find a bunch of search template torrents that you can download.
If you dont want to do all that, Ive placed my favorite search engines in a file here that you can download.
Once you have the downloaded search engines on your drive, you can simply click on each of the ones you wish to use. Vuze will ask you to confirm your decision and after that, you will be ready to search the net for your content.
Depending on what you are looking for BTJunkie and Kickass Torrents are good places to start. In fact, most torrent sites have their own search engine template packages available for easy download.
There are many Private search engines that are out there as well. The advantages of private torrent tracking sites is that each member who uses the site is scrutinized which provides for a better level of security for the users. There are tons of these private sites targeted to a variety of users. Frankly, many people choose this method of gathering content.
Most torrent sites have search engine template packages readily available- some even go so far as to place a link for them on their home page. Even better yet, you can simply use some of the links provided by others in this very thread, although, if you want a specific search engine, I might still suggest googling the engine name, plus the word “template,” just to make sure you have the exact ones that best suit your needs.
Final Thoughts:
We went into this article wanting to give our readers a general, high-level tutorial of how to set up and manage a BitTorrent client such as Vuze. For those who have never tried BitTorrenting, the process can seem a little confusing and dangerous and hopefully this quick guide gives a better sense of the steps you need to take to at least get everything up and running and secure.
The BitTorrent client we built was centered around the Zotac ZBOX Nano PC and we found this platform to be rock solid in everything that we did for this project. From the Windows 7-64-bit install, to the various software associated with security and torrenting, the VIA Nano X2 processor was more than enough to support this project.
Real-world transfer speeds and usage with the Zotac ZBOX Nano were as good as we were getting with any of our other BitTorrent rigs and clients. The trickiest thing about the setup was finding the right ports to use for optimum throughput and security.
For those looking to buy a Home Theater PC
that does more than just surf the net, you really should look at Zotac’s
catalog of mini-PCs. Most of Zotac’s mini-PCs start around $240 for fully outfitted palm-PC which make it quite
tempting – even for those who like to build their own machines. There
are a whole host of machines you can look at with AMD and Intel
processors in many different flavors.
After using it as a Bittorrent workhorse and media streamer, we found that the VIA X2 Nano processor was enough for all of
our applications – in fact, when viewing HD movies or networking with
other machines, our ZBOX worked like a champ! We really like the way
you can basically go from the box to full usage with minimal effort so
we really recommend getting the “All-in-one” fully configured PC with
hard drive and memory. With the flooding in Thailand that happened this
Fall, hard drive prices are projected to go up making the packages that
Zotac is offering a very good bargain!
Our VIA-powered ZBOX Nano VD01 PLUS [ZBOXNANO-VD01-PLUS-U] has an MSRP
of $273 and is available right now, but if you do some searching, you can find it for as low as $249 and Zotac gives you a 1-year standard warranty.
We are very confident that if you just follow the above steps, you will be less frustrated with the overall process of configuring a solid BitTorrent client. Good luck in your build!!
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