Most of us use utorrent, bittorrent or some other torrent client to download music, movies, books,games and a lot more. But many of us don’t know how the torrent file is created. In fact, it is quite easy to create a torrent file and sending it to your friends or others via any of the torrent clients. Here is simple procedure for doing this :

1. Firstly you need a torrent client, if you don’t have then download here. After downloading run the client.
2. Next you need to remember the port number or better change it to some easy number eg: 12345. You can change this by going to options->Preferences and then in the left pane select connection. Lets say you have changed it to 12345. Remember you can only give port value between 10000-40000.

3.After this you need to go to Advanced in same window and scroll down until you find ‘bt.enable_tracker’. Set this to true. Now we are ready to create our first torrent.

4. Go to File->Create new torrent and then add the file or directory you want to send. Next you need to enter the tracker’s address in the tracker field. For that you need to know your IP address.
5. You can get your IP at TellmyIP.com. Enter the IP Address in Trackers field followed by ‘:‘ and then enter the port number then forward slash and the name you want to give to the torrent.

6.Check the Start seeding checkbox to start sending the file. Now click ‘Create and save as’ to save the torrent on your hard disk.
7.Your torrent will start and then close this dialog. The last step is to send your friend the torrent file and once they open this file you’ll see the Upspeed and peers go up. That’s it.

Note: I have used the utorrent 1.8.4 for creating a torrent. Some of the settings may vary depending on the client and the version you are using.