Any good Torrent application recommendation?

[Xonnie316]

Hey MacRumors:Forums Members!

I'm new to Apple Mac, and well on Windows I used to use uTorrent as my torrent program.

I installed uTorrent for Mac, but I couldn't set the times I would want my downloads to start.

I tried also Transmission which was in one of the listed torrent programs in the macrumors mac beginners guide wiki page.

So what do you recommend people ?

I just wish to have an application in which I can set a certain time for it to download because of my internet bandwidth.

Thanks in advance !

Shaun (aka Xonnie316)

 

[rdowty]

Check out Transmission.

 

[Xonnie316]

Check out Transmission.

Thanks I tried Transmission, its just I can't set a time in which I want the download to start and stop

 

[thejadedmonkey]

Just set it to 0kb upload and 0kb download during the selected time

 

[Bostonaholic]

Check out Transmission.

Just set it to 0kb upload and 0kb download during the selected time

+1, +1

 

[amblue]

Vuze works great

 

[arjen92]

Vuze works great

Vuze made my iMac very slow. It's uses way too much resources.

Anyhow it doesn't matter for me as we here in the netherlands don't have to pay a lot for bandwith (I have the idea you have to pay a lot of money for much bandwith). This article supports my opionion: http://www.websiteoptimization.com/bw/0504/

 

[Gatteau]

Have you tried uTorrent?

 

[arjen92]

Have you tried uTorrent?

Read the first post again, he did.

 

[bunnykicker]

yes transmission is king. you can set bandwith limits in preferences. also you can always pause one torrent while another is dnlding or set it so it doesn't automatically begin dnld when you add file

 

[sammich]

Vuze made my iMac very slow. It's uses way too much resources.

How many items are/were you seeding/downloading when you were using Vuze? Just curious because I rarely seed beyond 1.5 and that doesn't not take very long (now that I'm on ADSL2+).

Personally, I like how Vuze gives you the ability to tweak just about every Torrenting option under the sun. Transmission rarely works for me even with the right ports forwarded.

 

[MacKiddyWiddy]

you can't really go wrong with uTorrent

 

[conor ordan]

Vuze!

Vuze is by far the best, the ability to search for torrents from within the client is fantastic, and I only notice it's affects on performance when I am running many CPU intensive applications like Photoshop, video converters etc