I have just installed and will carry on to use Transmission for the exact same reasons as above
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Changing torrent client - utorrent or bittorrent or transmission?
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I have just installed and will carry on to use Transmission for the exact same reasons as above
i've been using transmission for years on my mac, windows and linux servers. active community, fast speeds, lots of features, flexible front-ends. deluge looked good but had more dependencies to be installed on a linux server, where transmission can install a light-weight daemon to be controlled with a remote front-end.
I´ve used transmission but moved to utorrent when I did a fresh MT install. Transmission is good, but it get´s really slow (atleast on my mini) when there were a lot of torrents in the UL and DL que, and the fact that it had to ask for permission everytime the computer needed a reboot (i.e when you quit transmission) annoyed the hell out of me...
other then that, both utorrent and transmission can do what you ask for.
What do you guys download with these BitTorrent clients? Linux distros? Or DRM-free videos you already own in another format?
This was the most recent thread I could find with a bunch of people talking about Transmission.
Do you ever get lock-ups within Transmission when you have a lot of torrents open? Particularly if you pause or resume a torrent it will often drop all connections. I'm not sure if it's Transmission, my iMac, my router or something else. I have monitored my router but the load doesn't appear to be freaking out.
Do you ever get lock-ups within Transmission when you have a lot of torrents open? Particularly if you pause or resume a torrent it will often drop all connections. I'm not sure if it's Transmission, my iMac, my router or something else. I have monitored my router but the load doesn't appear to be freaking out.
I've used Transmission for years and have never seen that issue. Usually I only have 6 or 7 torrents open, but there were times I've had 15 or more and never had an occasion where pausing one would cause other connections to drop.
+1 for Transmission, works great and no ads. Been using it on Linux and OSX for years and the Windows port seems to work pretty well as well.
It tends to happen when I'm rocking 20+ active torrents (but not necessarily transmitting or receiving data).