torrentfreak.com— Transmission 0.7 Beta is by far the fastest, most light-weight and one of the most appealing BitTorrent clients for the Mac. Here's Torrentfreak's review of it.
Oct 31, 2006View in Crawl 4
@ GobdWrong. First of all, maybe you should read the whole thing. In this release, it does have a scheduler. I am sure more features will be added eventually. It may not be quite as good as ?torrent, but it is probably the closest we will get for Macs anytime soon.
Five features Transmission needs!1. Selective Downloading2. Oink! and other torrent sites supported3. Encryption4. RSS Support5. Abilty to make torrents
Transmission really needs a way to pick better trackers. If there are multiple trackers, Transmission always seems to pick the one with 0 seeds. Azureus seems to pick a better tracker most of the time.
trylleklovnNov 1, 2006
Why did he blank out those totally legal linux mirrors he are using Transmission for downloading?
danieldanielNov 1, 2006
@ GobdWrong. First of all, maybe you should read the whole thing. In this release, it does have a scheduler. I am sure more features will be added eventually. It may not be quite as good as ?torrent, but it is probably the closest we will get for Macs anytime soon.
ericjdNov 1, 2006
Thank goodness they got rid of that horrid gear icon.
mejogidNov 1, 2006
@Dog_PaddleThe SVNs have been perfectly stable for me on an intel mac. I've had transmission running 24/7 on SVN builds for five weeks now without a single crash. Give it a go!This is for some reason a review of a very old svn version, and that it's not yet in beta. These are simply pre release builds, and the latest version ( <a class="user" href="http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/Transmission-0.7-svn-r1040.dmg">http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/Transmission-0.7-svn-r1040.dmg</a> ) includes some nice new icons and a torrent progress display like in xtorrent.All in all, I'd say it's now almost up to par with the shareware xtorrent.
orochuNov 3, 2006
Transmission isn't terrible, the developers' unwillingness to commit this patch -> <a class="user" href="http://transmission.m0k.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/108">http://transmission.m0k.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/108</a> is.
orochuNov 3, 2006
Yes, the devs really should commit the patch here-> <a class="user" href="http://transmission.m0k.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/108">http://transmission.m0k.org/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/ticket/108</a>It does not hurt speeds at all!<a class="user" href="http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9518/transmissionregif7.png">http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/9518/transmissionregif7.png</a>
miyamotofreakNov 25, 2006
Five features Transmission needs!1. Selective Downloading2. Oink! and other torrent sites supported3. Encryption4. RSS Support5. Abilty to make torrents
jonshipmanDec 3, 2006
Transmission really needs a way to pick better trackers. If there are multiple trackers, Transmission always seems to pick the one with 0 seeds. Azureus seems to pick a better tracker most of the time.
sunalexSep 6, 2008
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