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Best BitTorrent client?

I haven't found anything to sway me away from Azureus, unfortunately. If Transmission/Xtorrent had selective downloading, encryption and worked with private trackers I'd switch in an instant. Hopefully it won't be too long before those features are implemented, I know selective downloading is already in the nightly builds of Transmission.
 
dav said:
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
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I want to know the answer to this too, but it seems like no one is going to pay attention to it. From my research, no -- there is no other bittorrent program on mac that gives you the ability to file select.

Transmission may get that option one day. I guess it must be really hard to set up since no program other than azureus can do it.
 
Xtorrent does the job for me. Simple, nice UI and relatively lightweight. It might not have the features of some of the other Bit Torrent clients but it has worked flawlessly for me so far.
 
Xtorrent

Xtorrent does the job for me too. I love everything about it. Interface, simplicity, everything. I use BitRocket and Transmission too. These 3 apps are the best. Azureus is a memory killer. I hate it.
 
Poob Bubes said:
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?
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3.x is banned in a lot of places, and you're gonna hate it if you're used to previous versions of Azureus. Look on http://azureus.sf.net there's still a download link for 2.5.0.3 or something, forget what the latest version was.

3.x is technically similar to 2.5.x except the addition of the vuze crap.
kwabena said:
Azureus is a memory killer. I hate it.
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weee, /me tries to hate on an app that uses less resources than Safari, but fails miserably as she notices that Az barely uses less than half the cpu/ram/vram with 3 torrents active than Safari with 10 tabs open.

She also notes that every client mentioned by you, including Azureus, turns into a resource hog while downloading torrents at 4MB/s+. Or when there are 20 active torrents open.

Cromulent said:
It might not have the features of some of the other Bit Torrent clients...
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can't even start private torrents on a lot of trackers with Xtorrent cause it's banned. yep, it's missing a lot of features *ducks*
 
i like azureuz. i use 2.5.0.4.
don't upgrade to 3.x like the person said earlier, it is banned many places.
 
Ok I have an enormous problem!

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Hey... Ok I have been looking around, reading forums all over the place, but just nothing gave me what I needed.
Can ANYBODY help me with a torrent downloading program that can cue, and then once it finishes a certain specified amount of upload go the next torrent?
Tomato Torrent lets u specify the amount of upload per 50 mb you want, which is perfect, but I can't seem to queue in it. Is that possible? Can you queue torrents to start one after another in tomato torrent?
Azureus only starts after you upload at least 1 times the amount of the file downloaded, and I live in India and my connection is slow as hell here so I can't upload that much cause it takes too long, I upload about half the downloaded file. Plus I have unlimited downloads only at night so I can't even stop and start manually [since I need sleep, lol]
Also Tomato Torrent and Transmission can't seem to filter out files that I don't wish to download!!! Is there any program that can do everything I need it to!
Is there anyone who can help my poor soul!!!
 
I'll vouche for Azureus. Sure it might hog up some resources but honestly on my iMac I usually download while I'm out or not using the computer so I don't really notice.

I love knowing I have a little extra protection from safe peer, and I love the speed scheduler.

for now I consider it the best just for the security features and support of trackers.
 
Xtorrent for me. Best UI and integrated file search as well as individual file selection capabilities. If there was a default BitTorrent client for Mac it would be that one. Well worth the price.
 
jbucaran said:
Xtorrent for me. Best UI and integrated file search as well as individual file selection capabilities. If there was a default BitTorrent client for Mac it would be that one. Well worth the price.
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Xtorrent had promise.

Unfortunately development seems to be dead and it had a lot of problems because of the old code that the core is based on.
 
I've used Tomato and LimeWire. LW isn't the best for reputation, but tomato couldn't open half the .torrents I threw at it. D:
Though I'm not surprised...
 
KelchM said:
Xtorrent had promise.

Unfortunately development seems to be dead and it had a lot of problems because of the old code that the core is based on.
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What problems are you talking about? I have not experienced anything yet. I am not arguing here I am actually curious about this because it would be an important issue to me.

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And regarding Transmission as the most elegant solution you are flat out wrong, I know is a matter of opinion but if you have any taste for native Mac OSX applications you wouldn't say that Transmission is the most elegant solution.
 
dyaniboi said:
uTorrent for Mac is now available... it's free and simple to use!
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I've used Transmission for a long time but a torrent recently was choking (like 20k/sec down when it should have been crazy fast with the number of seeders), so I fired the torrent up in uTorrent and it zoomed along. I've been using it ever since 🙂

http://mac.utorrent.com/

I don't understand people using Azureus... I tried it a couple times back in the day, but it's a freaking monster. If these lightweight ones offer pretty much the same thing and do it much more efficiently and look better, why do people still stick with that piece of crap? 😕
 
haha i see now why everyone was talking about azuerus or however you spell it haha, this thread is almost 2 years old !.

i use transmission, i love it, by far the best in my opinion
 
problem with transmission is that if you seeding a lot of files it doesn't tell you which ones are actually being seeded at any given moment. Only tells you the total uploading rate in KB/s. So annoying as it is, one has to scroll throughout all the seeds and try to spot the ones that are going up. pain in the but!

Does someone knows of any other client that actually specifies the files that are going up?
 
What in the world are you guys thinking,?! lol.. Transmission is the best, and fasted, torrent client out there, INHO.

I have tried Azureus but find it bloated.. just too much crap. If you want to download torrents, and download them fast, then use Transmission. It's fast, lightweight, and small- doesn't take up much screen real estate.
 
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