The Narutoforums Bittorrent FAQ by Reznor is a good place to get some basic answers about aspects of the bittorrent system. For a more detailed description, Brian's BitTorrent FAQ and Guide goes over every bit of bittorrent comprehensively.

Before you can use this site, or any other BitTorrent site, you must know what BitTorrent (BT) actually is, how it works, the programs needed and the methods involved. All of this information can be found at Brian's BitTorrent FAQ and Guide. You can delete your account and then attempt to re-register. If you are using a free email service such as Hotmail or Yahoo! there may be up to a 24hrs delay until you receive your email.

A web proxy can only be used for the first type of connection, since the second type is not HTTP. Theoretically, you could use the HTTP CONNECT command to tunnel them through an HTTP proxy, but this would require additional code support in the client. There is a possible workaround for this scenario, however; see the final point below. If the proxy does not require authorization, the system-wide proxy configuration should work.

BitTorrent is an extremely efficient peer-to-peer download system, where all users share a portion of their upload bandwidth to others downloading the same file. The more popular a file is, the faster you will be able to download it! BitTorrent starts with a ".torrent" file. This small file contains the address of the main tracker server that connects you with others downloading the file. After downloading a torrent file, you will need a BitTorrent client to open the file and begin downloading.

Bittorrent is a technology designed to solve the biggest problem with offering downloads. Serving large files, such as mods, movies and demos, creates problems of scaling, reliability. Since Blackhole Motorsports has recently become more and more popular we were faced with the following problems: To overcome these problems we decided to use Bittorrent for our large and popular files.

Yes, but you will get better performance if other peers can connect to you. See here for detailed instructions on how to allow incoming BitTorrent connections.

Just configure Windows XP as above. When you configure a proxy for Internet Explorer you're actually configuring a proxy for all HTTP traffic (thank Microsoft and their "IE as part of the OS policy" ). On the other hand if you use another browser (Opera/Mozilla/Firefox) and configure a proxy there you'll be configuring a proxy just for that browser. Also, some BT clients have an option to configure proxy.

Yes, but you will get better performance if other peers can connect to you. By default, BitTorrent listens on port 6881, trying incrementially higher ports if it's unable to bind. It gives up after 6889 (the port range is configurable.) It's up to you to figure out how to poke a hole in your firewall/NAT.

For the uninitiated, bittorrent is a program which distributes large files in a peer-to-peer network; clients can then access the files from the p2p network as if downloading them from a virtualized host. This distributes bandwidth costs over the entire p2p network instead of having one centralized server incurr those costs. Several readers have suggested that I distribute sacred-texts partially or exclusively over bittorrent to avoid paying the costs of bandwidth.