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G3 Torrent is another BitTorrent client. It has many features that the main BitTorrent client by Bram Cohen does not. It is different from other torrent clients and in a way easier because there is more detail on the main window of it as you can see here. All you have to do is click the details tab to get details on your torrent download. Like all other clients, G3 should be configured before you start to use it a lot, just to make sure you are using it the best you can. A quick look at the main screen shows you that if you select a downloading torrent, it shows details below on the other users you are connected to, how much they have downloaded and the client that they are using. Some argue that this is not respecting the privacy of other users but you can get the IP Addresses from any client using commands like netstat so it doesn't make much difference. First we will configure G3 Torrent. Click Options --> Preferences.
The first thing you will see after going to Options --> Preferences if the general preferences of G3 Torrent. First of all, I don't think there is any or much use for a nickname while you are using BitTorrent so I suggest you just leave that as anonymous, although your nickname if you choose to pick one will be seen by other G3 Torrent users. Min simultaneous torrents should also be left as its default value of 1. It means the minimum number of torrents that the client will automatically start. Update GUI should be left at 1000 ms. All the rest of the settings here are up to you but I recommend that you click Confirmation on exit as it will make sure you don't accidentally stop the client; it will ask you are you sure you want to close before the program closes. If you have more BT clients installed on your PC, then you might want to click the Associate button. This means that whenever you double click a torrent file or click a link to a torrent file in a browser, G3 torrent will handle the download. If you don't have it associated with torrent files, then you will have to open G3 and automatically open a torrent file in it every time you want to download and share using the client. When you have finished these settings the next we will look at are the Folder Options.
Here you can select default folders. I don't use these options but it's up to you if you want to try them out. As you can see you can set a default download folder, where all the downloading files will automatically go. You can set a folder to save your torrents files also. You can then further set another folder where downloaded files will be moved upon completion as well as settings a folder to move complete torrent folders into. Leaving these unchecked means that every torrent that you add to the list, you will get a popup box for that will ask you to choose a folder to save the files into that you download. This is the default was for most if not all BitTorrent clients and in my opinion it is the best way. Changing these options shouldn't affect the performance of the client by much but one thing I will say is choosing folder son different drives or partitions generally wouldn't be a very good idea as moving files from partition to partition or drive to drive can encounter problems while CPU usage is already high, which unfortunately it usually is while using most BT clients. I think the option to select folders is an attempt to bring BitTorrent more towards the look of other P2P networks that need you to select incoming and temporary folders etc. but I would rather keep my clients the way they are supposed to be, but of course it is up to you. The next thing we will look at now is Network Options where we can configure the port range that G3 torrent uses. This may be needed by some people to get connections from other users.
These settings are important. It is important to first point out to you that Download and Upload Capacity settings here only affect the graph, they are not limits on the bandwidth usage at all, we will get onto that in a moment. You should change the download and upload capacity settings to your maximum download speeds, like for example if you usually download at 70kb/s and upload at 30kb.s then those are the figures you should use. Even if you will never use the graph it is better to have it set properly in case you ever need to. You Port Range is important. The default BitTorrent port range is 6881 - 6999. You definitely should not keep this port range because ISP's are beginning to limit the usage of these ports, and that will affect the overall performance of a torrent. As you can see mine is set to 50505 - 50606 (which is is in each BT guide I write) but don't select these ports either, thing of a big enough range yourself and use that. If you choose a range that is blocked either by a router, or firewall or your ISP, then you may fail to get any incoming connections. If you have a router, you may have to configure it to use port forwarding. If you have a firewall, then make sure you are allowing G3 full unrestricted access to the Internet. Picking a good port range is needed to achieve best results downloading and uploading. Most trackers are beginning to block out the default port ranges of 6881 - 6999 because ISP limitations are getting more spread, meaning the torrents would be slower in general if all users were to be using these ports. Next thing we will look at now is Transfer Options.
Here is where you can set the upload rate limits. It is best to keep Use a global setting ticked. Remember when you are setting an Upload rate, you should set it to about 90% of your maximum rate, to avoid choking your connection and to keep torrent download performance high. If you upload too quickly, you might kill your connection, and if that keeps happening, then the overall torrent performance will get worse. You can set average upload rate too if you wish. This could help files to be spread quicker, stopping people from getting 90% of the upload you are offering, then 3 more people getting only a share of the last 10% of what you offer. If you do not choose a Global setting, then you can set the rate per torrent instead, some users may prefer that method, but for simplicity, stick to the global setting. 
When you first add a Torrent Files to G3 torrent, you will get a pop-up listing multiple files that are in the torrent. This allows you to select a download order, or just leave it at random, which I would recommend. As you can see, there is a tick box beside each file. If you were to untick one of the boxes, then that file would not download. This is selective file downloading which we will look at again later. If you want to select an order for them to be downloaded, you can do so by changing Order Preference to Custom Order. Now the two arrows will be highlighted. To move a file up or down, select the file and click one of the arrows. To move a file to the very end or very top, you can right click and click that option. This file manager should be left automatically shown whenever you get a torrent with multiple files, as you'd never know when extra useless stuff has been added to a torrent that you just don't need. Later on we will discuss this a little further and how you can use it better.