A torrent, for those of you who don't know, is a file that you download, then open up with a "torrent managing" program, it then uses the torrent to download files from other people. Torrents are generally used for files >500 MB, or a vast number of files as downloading that many files that large from a filehost is typically moar trouble than it's worth. Depending on whether they have a full set of the files they are either called "seeds" (completed the download and are now seeding) or "peers" (incomplete download, can also seed to a lesser extent). Most people use either Azureus (http://azureus.sourceforge.net/) or utorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/) both are perfectly viable options, and allow for a lot of customization, for advanced users, but don't require any to download torrents. There are rumors that newer utorrent versions are being used to track people down, they are false. That's pretty much the gist of things, port forwarding is moar complex, and requires a static ip, best to be avoided unless you know what you're doing, but moar info can be found at http://portforward.com/routers.htm and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_forwarding .
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