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Best BitTorrent client?

rickvanr said:
I really like Bits on Wheels. Perhaps this is the wrong place to ask, but I just hate the icons within the app, how easy would it be to change them? I used to do it all the time in OS 9 with ResEdit, but I haven't gotten into it much in OS X. Ideas?
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1. Navigate to the Bits on Wheels application.
2. Control/right click its icon, select "Show package contents..."
3. Go to: Contents/Resources
4. Replace those images with .png's of the same size.
 
I've got a dual G5 with lots of memory, but I've never really had issues with Azureus hogging resources. So long as it's not maxing out the up or down cap on my DSL modem, I can leave it running for days with no noticable side effects.

(This is, however, a drastic change from recent versions--through about 2.1--which tickled a bug in the OSX Java that could and regularly did freeze or panic the entire system, particularly on DP Macs. That's completely fixed now, though.)

I keep wanting to try BitsOnWheels--it looks like they're using something based, spiritually if not literally, on the Azureus core (I say this because the general interface and several particular features look nearly identical) but it's a native MacOS app.

But, new apps like that always make me a bit wary, and Azureus recently added the distributed tracking feature that picks up some of the slack for flaky trackers, so I'm sticking with it for the time being.
 
gangst said:
when you say within the app do you mean start, stop, clear etc... or the wat tomato torrent colors torrent files blue, if its to do with the torrent file use pixadex or candshopiconfactory.com/
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I mean start, stop, clear, etc... icons within the application.

Edit:: Thanks Wes.. I should have known that I've done it with Proteus.
 
i used azureus for the longest time. But i got tired of the hog and tried bit on wheels. the newer version that came out recently has many of the options that azureus has: 3D swarm, pices, files, general, and such tabs. Plus its not such a pig anymore. Now granted there are things missing, but i like that i dont feel the wieght of the program anymore.
 
For features, definitely Azureus. However, like others here it really hogs resources, and crashes VERY frequently. The way it crashes is particularly annoying too. Sometimes when I try to quit, it doesn't quit. The window disappears, but the dock icon stays put, and the whole machine slows to a crawl. Usually I have to do killall Azureus (or killall java_swt) from the terminal, and then killall Dock (to get the icon to go away). BitTorrent official client is much more stable and lightweight. I'll have to try Bits on Wheels and Tomato Torrent.
 
I only use azureus if I am leeching many, many torrents or I just need certain files from the torrent

Tomato Torrent for everything else 🙂

Sidenote: Is there any Mac BT client that can pick certain files to download that is NOT azureus? I will be honest, I hate Azureus
 
dav said:
I will be honest, I hate Azureus
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I completely agree now. I just got my dual 2.0 PM and Azureus is still locking up my machine if I leave it going for a couple of hours. The entire system becomes non-responsive, I have to manually shut down the machine and then boot back up. So, I've dropped Azureus and I think I'll download tomato torrent tonight, that seems to be a popular client so I'll give it a try.
 
I have to say Tomato Torrent, or the original BitTorrent client. They're both very simple and easy to use, and not big on resource hogging. I'm not much of a features guy, I just change my max connections and upload speed once in a while.
 
i use azureus, and have noticed that it does slow down my system a little, but i don't have lock ups.
i leave azureus running for days at a time.
 
mduser63 said:
For features, definitely Azureus. However, like others here it really hogs resources, and crashes VERY frequently. The way it crashes is particularly annoying too. Sometimes when I try to quit, it doesn't quit. The window disappears, but the dock icon stays put, and the whole machine slows to a crawl. Usually I have to do killall Azureus (or killall java_swt) from the terminal, and then killall Dock (to get the icon to go away). BitTorrent official client is much more stable and lightweight. I'll have to try Bits on Wheels and Tomato Torrent.
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You are NOT supposed to do that. It happens to me sometimes, the app stays open for a while without showing any window. But this is the time that sends your status (how much you uploaded and downloaded) to the tracker and from there to the users!

But forcing it to quit, the data sent are faulty, and no matter if you have uploaded 1Gbyte, you will be shown as if you have uploaded nothing!

This is extremely important for some networks.
 
Was using Azureus on my senior PM G4 (400Mhz). And i just ran it when i was away from the computer. Because it took every resource this sytem has. All CPU and all MEM...

Since reading this thread i've installed Bits on Wheels, and i love it. Has everything Azureus has and keeps my system usable..

Love BOW....

Cuckoo
 
Cuckoo said:
Since reading this thread i've installed Bits on Wheels, and i love it. Has everything Azureus has and keeps my system usable..
Cuckoo
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Is there a way in BOW to only download only one file from a torrent containing multiple files? This is the only function of Azeurus that I'd like to be able to use!
 
evilgEEk said:
I'm using Azureus right now but I need to change clients, I think.

I've been running it on an iBook G4 1Ghz with 512m of memory and if I leave Azureus up for long periods of time (talking hours, not days) it locks up my machine! The ol' girl never locked up once in ten months of hard use, the minute I load up Azureus I've had to hard reboot three times! 🙁 😱

Another friend running Azureus on a PM 2.3Ghz G5 with 2.5gig of memory is having similar problems. It's not completely locking up, but it's definately slowing things down quite a bit. That can't just be Azureus hogging system resources, can it? Seems like there might be somethin else going on.

Any ideas?
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Try limiting your upstream to 30k if on cable, 20 if on DSL.
 
I'm absolutely stunned that I've made it this far in the thread and haven't seen anyone mention either Transmission or BitRocket.

More than that, though, "best" is purely subjective. If you want the most fully-featured (but consequently the most resource-hungry) client, you want Azureus. If you want something lighter-weight, you want BitRocket until Transmission 0.7 comes out. If you want to pay for your BitTorrent client, you want Xtorrent.
 
I hate Azureus, but beggars cant be choosers I guess.
I just need to be able to select which part of the torrent content I want.
Is it too much to ask that some programmer somewhere in the world just make what I want? 😛
 
epochblue said:
I'm absolutely stunned that I've made it this far in the thread and haven't seen anyone mention either Transmission or BitRocket.
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Umm... if you take a look at the date stamp, you'll note that until Pandab34R dredged it up, 07-03-2005 was the last post, which is why neither of those were mentioned.

Back in mid-2005, Transmission and BitRocket didn't even exist--Transmission was first made public two or three months after that, and BitRocket quite a while later.
 
Makosuke said:
Umm... if you take a look at the date stamp, you'll note that until Pandab34R dredged it up, 07-03-2005 was the last post, which is why neither of those were mentioned.
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You're absolutely right....I didn't look at the date stamp once. Sorry about that 🙂 That definitely explains my confusion... 😱
 
holy mother of a thread revival.

@Pandab34R: portforward.com has directions for lots of routers. also use http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html to configure your settings for upload/download/etc.

Anyway, I'm chipping in for Azureus 2.5.x (not 3.x piece of commercial crap), BitTornado via Torrentflux (web client, so this is best for servers and stuff), and rtorrent.

I almost exclusively use private sites, almost all of which have banned Transmission (and Xtorrent as a result), BitsOnWheels (hasn't been updated in..forever..) and once in a while, Mainline (and Tomato Torrent as a result). I don't feel like being banned for using a banned client...if I can even connect to the tracker at all.

Azureus is not a hog on my machine and runs just fine (if anything, Safari, iTunes and Colloquy hog WAY more resources than Azureus with a few torrents active and open). Once in a while I'll use uTorrent, but it's really not worth it except natively.

BitRocket's okay, but I love my power torrenting, I'm a whore for advanced and overkill settings.


On a sidenote, half the technical advice given in this thread is disgustingly wrong...
 
diametric said:
BitTyrant. By far. Modified version of Azureus which gives higer d/load speeds.
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I've never found much of a need for BitTyrant. Maybe if you're actually getting improved speeds from using such an app, it's time to move on to better torrents? I max out my bandwidth (100/100 on my server, and 10/1 at home) both ways with all three apps I mentioned above most of the time, just never on public torrents (****ing crazy molasses slow..wtf is 20kb/s)
 
janey said:
I'm chipping in for Azureus 2.5.x (not 3.x piece of commercial crap)
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I'm new to the Mac but I always used Azureus on pc. I was trying to decide whether or not to use Azureus or Transmission on Mac. Is Azureus 2.5.x the best choice, and if so is it still available for dl since 3.x is out?
 
I use Azureus, religiously.

One, it's reliable, and it's constantly updated to run better! Sadly, the 3.0 version is not as great as I expected. The only thing that T's me off is that it uses up so much RAM!

At work I use uTorrent, and in a lot of aspects, it's the same as Azureus, only PC side.

I used the original application before, and liked it until I started registering to certain sites, then it slowly stopped working because it wasn't very customizable to what certain trackers needed.

Now... Only if I could teach the bros in my frat house how to use torrenting instead of bugging me at 3 AM with stupid questions about it!

Steve
 
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