Here's a roundup of some of the how-to articles that appeared on TorrentFreak over the past few months. Might be useful to some of the new readers.

1. How to optimize your BitTorrent download speed

BitTorrent can be fun, as long as you get decent speeds. Not satisfied with your current speeds? These suggestions might help to optimize your download pleasure

2. How to encrypt BitTorrent traffic

More and more ISP’s are limiting throttling BitTorrent traffic on their networks. By throttling BitTorrent traffic the speed of BitTorrent downloads decrease, and high speed downloads are out of the question.

3. How to create a torrent

Torrents are great, they are the best way to share large files with your friends, or even with people you don’t know at all. But surprisingly enough, not many people create torrents when they need to share something.

4. How to make a custom TV-torrent feed

All your favorite TV-torrents in one feed. Let’s create a feed for the latest 24, Lost and Prison Break HDTV episodes.

5. How to Organize your Torrents with uTorrent

Being a TorrentFreak is great of course, but all those downloaded torrents have the habit to make a mess out of your harddrive. Do you still have all your downloaded stuff in a single folder? Take action, organize your torrents.

6. How to Use Gmail to search torrents

Gmail is more than a useful email service. In just a few steps you can turn it into your personal torrent search engine. And by using labels and filters you can keep your inbox clean.

7. How to Speed up Bitcomet and uTorrent

I recently discovered that 90% off all people use the default settings on their client, and that’s a problem.

8. How to talk like a BitTorrent expert

Because I sometimes implicitly assume that everybody is completely familiar with the BitTorrent jargon. I decided to make a little BitTorrent dictionary to explain some of the nerdy stuff. I hope this hope this is useful to some of you.

9. How to find torrents

So Here it is, TorrentFreak’s one and only top torrent sites + firefox search plugins, June 2006. No Login required.

Enjoy