Why does extracting Torrents take forever?......

[KillerKat]

Im using a program called uTorrent, but when I want to extract the downloaded torrent it takes forever. Idk how to fix this.

[SmootsDaddy89]

what do you mean extract? Winrar?

[KillerKat]

utorrent

[wesley17]

download winrar. install it. Go to your download(my files go to, my downloads from utorrent). right click on one of the rar files, click extract here or extract files. should take about a minute a gig.

[KillerKat]

it extracts torrent files?

[wesley17]

most torrent files are compressed into rar files. (for example winrar extracts the rars into .avi if its xvid) so after you download winrar, find where you downloaded you torrent too (my documents/ my downloads for me). there should be 3 diffrent types of files, the middle one with the brown folders should say .rar at the end. right click one of those .rar files and click extract here.

[KillerKat]

I just got the .torrent file

[wesley17]

when you go to download the torrent don't hit save, go to open with and utorrent should pop up and ask if you wanna download the files. it should say at the top where your downloading to.

[KillerKat]

I did that and thats what's taking so long

[SmootsDaddy89]

uh you realize you're downloading something and not "extracting" anything right now right? Downloading poo via torrent generally takes a while. What's your current download speed?

[KillerKat]

So it's normal for it to be this slow? At this rate itll take a week before its done.

[SmootsDaddy89]

What are you downloading? And how large is the torrent? Also where did you get it from?

Sorry for all the questions but this is the best way to diagnose the problem.

[KillerKat]

its 3.17GB

[God]

I recommend using btjunkie.org. On my computer 3GB takes about 8-16 hours, maybe a little more.