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- tsunamisteve, on 10/12/2007, -0/+18i hope "update" posts have a category in digg3.0
- corsairstw, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14It's definitely my favorite client. It's light, simple, and intuitive. Fast also!
- kennyGS13, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9the only thing i don't like is you can't pick the files you want to download on the torrent like utorrent
- beni, on 10/12/2007, -8/+16Nothing beats Azureus - for any OS. It may be slow to load, but it's impressive featureset and cross-platform compatibility make putting up with Java worth it. No offense to users of other clients, I try others but keep coming back to Azureus.
- matt0ne, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11i found that transmission basically didn't work for me.. as soon as I went back to the original BitTorrent my download rates went way up!!
- silic0n, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Tranmission is amazing.
- eleven, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8You checked the default port in transmission right? It tends to be different than some of the other clients - just incase your router was still set up for the old BT.
- jarcoal, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9i have also noticed that it feels slower than some clients. it might be the best client for os x, but it's lightyears behind utorrent.
- psylion, on 10/12/2007, -6/+12Anything that runs on BeOs is cool with me. I will have to try it out and post back.
- Agret, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Sorry, µTorrent owns Windows.
- stewacide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5have used this for many months, great program
- david1nc, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Does it still leak packets?
Was waiting for a fix for that. - KissTheRing, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5you need the Universal Binary, at the moment the main release is still just for the PPC macs but there is a special Universal Binary build on the Azureus Wiki at the link below
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Intel_Macs - PathDaemon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7I've always preferred Azureus. This one just seems too... simple, for my tastes.
- ultrasoul, on 10/12/2007, -4/+8Certainly is, used it on my Inspiron 6000 running OS X. Only complaints is that utorrent is far superior. Shame they dropped the OS X project for uTorrent soem time ago :(
- deepsub, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I agree with you completely.
No transport encryption and no peer filtering are showstoppers for me. - spingk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8I found Azureus to be extremelly slow, to waste my bandwith and to slow down my computer alot. uTorrent does none of these.
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4utorrent 1.5 is 152kb with a grip more features.. but of course, it's for PC. :)
- elook, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Without encryption it's nearly useless for users dealing with ISP traffic shaping. I'll stick with Azureus despite it's bloat.
- JohnClay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This feature is in the works
- lament, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4there is no "default port" for bittorrent, guys. you shouldn't be using 6881-6889 at all, since ISPs throttle those. use something in the 50000 range and you'll be fine. just make sure to forward that port in your router.
- dracula7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3id just like to mention, acquisition (the p2p client), supports torrent downloading and is beautiful
- natenate19, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Transmission is small, size and footprint wise. It is simple. It works well. It does not have a wealth of features, but note the version number: 0.6. Now look at the features added in previous versions: not a bad pace for, from what I've seen in their svn, 3 (three) active developers working in their spare time.
- vh1`, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2just in case anyone using a debian-based distro wants to try it out, I build a .deb using checkinstall on dapper
http://rapidshare.de/files/23953595/transmission_0.6-1_i386.deb.html - pjh3000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2uTorrent hides its resource usage through its use of the Win32 API.
- mattwestm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I use Transmission on OSX and Linux. This is a great client because it's not bloated like Azureus is.
- Boondoggle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4WTF... I just want to download files... Transmission does that. I need all that other crap like I need to read all my email headers.
- nider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2With this release I'm finally changing from Azureus to Transmission as my BitTorrent program of choice. My main reason for keeping with Azureus for so long was it has many more features than Transmission. Transmission at v 0.6 has enough features for me to warrant its use for me and beats Azureus' memory hoggishness hands down.
- nolanistic, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Why are you getting dugg down... it does work on BeOS, it was initially designed for BeOS and Mac OS X.
- zephc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i still like Acquisition more - the Find More Sources actually works, i havent seen anything like that in Transmission
- fugazi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4What about something like safe peer, until they implement somthing like it not many people will switch...
- davepascoe, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1omg! I just started using this. it rules so much! a fantastic 'proper' mac app - the icon shows download rate and notifies when torrents have finished, beautiful UI, few but useful preferences, etc.
I was previously using azureus which was a decent program but so bloated and not a "mac app" at all. - recover82, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1so glad this was posted. .same site hosts handbrake.
i was just asking a friend where i could get a good dvd ripping utilitiy that was universal this morning and it looks like i have found one. - JohnClay, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is by far the best Torrent client for the Mac OS. Azureus has more features at this point, but its a bloated POS. Transmission isn't even at 1.0, and it beats the original BT app, Tomato Torrent and many others.
- stewacide, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I keep Tomato Torrent around as the default torrent handler only because I like the icons so much :)
- Oline61, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Azureus is still the best cross-platform client despite it's resource hogging. If uTorrent is ever ported to GNU/Linux I'll switch.
- BlueStarr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Great app.... :)
- batfan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Another great bittorrent app for os x is bits on wheels. It creats a 3 dimensional
representation of the pieces, seedlers and peers.
http://www.bitsonwheels.com/intro.html - DjANTi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1rofl... everyone does it...
- NanoStuff, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3I use XP so I find it remarkable they can fit a functional OSX torrent client in 62.5kB of data. Some of my txt files are larger than that.
- Hellmark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use azureus on my mac mini, which as 512mb of ram, and it noticibly brings things to a crawl, even just simple web browsing or IRC. And I'm frequently having to kill off zombied processes after it shut down.
- igraham09, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dude, the 3d swarm in BoW has me sold... i've been using it for months
- cbreaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1So that's why all the BitTorrent apps call for TCP ports via uPnP?
It can use both, obviously. - CalPaterson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1rtorrent
- StarManta, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's unfortunate that I need so many of Azureus's options. I really want to like this program - it's pretty, it looks efficient - but I need some of Azureus's plugins, its intelligent queueing management... and perhaps more importantly, all of my torrents are already -in- it.
- MoFoKeR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1and someone had told me only pc users stole i mean shared media , files and etc, i guess they were wrong
- reverb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Transmission's file size may be small, but on my Mac it uses 33% more memory than Tomato Torrent.
- Hellmark, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Far from the finest client. I've used it, and it seems like it puts too much of an emphasis on being nice and shiny rather than useful. Simple things like, how many seeders are available, how much has been uploaded, ratio, etc are not available on the main window. You have to open up a info box for each torrent to find that out. Plus, no individual throttle controls. Till I can find something that's truely better (preferably something native), I'll begrudgingly use azureus.
- CalPaterson, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I wonder when people are going to realise that this infantile fight over binary sizes is totally irrelevant to the issue of quality. That fact that the (presumably non-static) binary for transmission is 500kb, or that uTorrent is 154kb makes NO DIFFERENCE whatsoever. They're both using large amounts of libraries etc, and it really doesn't make any difference.
I happen to have a client I've compiled myself that comes to 576kb. But it doesn't make any difference to the speed, or quality of that client (as it happens, I rather like this client). - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Selective downloading is not such a preposterously obscure or unwanted feature. On my notebook (60 gigs total, 1-4 gigs free on average), I actually need it."
What you actually need is a new HD; laptop HDs are notoriously slower once you fill them above 60-70%. Grab another HD, slap it in a $20 external bay and connect when you need it.
The reason I love Transmission is its command line client; barring the original Python (aka slow as hell interpreted code) bittorrent, Transmission is the best command line bt client out there.
And an added bonus, it works so, so well with TorrentFlux. -
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