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Mac and Bit Torrent?

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vancouveray

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Mar 21, 2007
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Hey guys,

I just recently bought a macbook (first time Mac user), and I love it. I am just trying to familar myself with different mac software and trying to figure out which software works and which doesn't.

My question is, will bit torrent work on a mac? I also have a PC at home, so if it doesn't, I can always use my PC for bit torrent downloads instead. But if it does works on a mac, it'll just make things more convenient for me.

anyways, please let me know.

Thanks.
 
Duff-Man says....of course bit torrent works on a Mac! No problemo at all - just choose the client softare that suits you best and away you go. You can search www.versiontracker.com for software and read the user reviews. Persoanally, I like Transmission with Azureus as a second choice...but there are others as well....oh yeah!
 
Yes. I personally use Tomato Torrent, a bit old, but still nice app. Works well for those Linux ISOs and the like.
 
Mechcozmo said:
Yes. I personally use Tomato Torrent, a bit old, but still nice app. Works well for those Linux ISOs and the like.
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Duff-Man says...yes, I have that in my arsenal too but mostly use it for creating my torrents. I used it for d/l for the longest time but found it a bit unstable and did not like the individual windows for every torrent...the clean single window of Transmission and non-bloat really sold me though....oh yeah!
 
Xtorrent used to be the best thing since sliced bread. Then the beta ended. Booo....:( :mad: :mad:
 
Xander562 said:
Xtorrent used to be the best thing since sliced bread. Then the beta ended. Booo....:( :mad: :mad:
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i know that was nice.

i like the built in client for Opera. But I don't really like Opera

i wish firefox had a built in client.


anyway, to answer your question, go to versiontracker.com and your torrent client options for Mac are

bits on wheels
transmission
azureus
Bit Torrent X
Bit Rocket
Tomato Torrent
Xtorrent
Opera
Acquisition


I like tomato cuz it's small, and works with my favorite tracker.
 
I use Azureus as my main bittorrent client and Transmission as my backup. The ability to choose what files I want to download in Azureus is a really nice features, sometimes I don't need all the files in the torrent.
 
iBookG4user said:
I use Azureus as my main bittorrent client and Transmission as my backup. The ability to choose what files I want to download in Azureus is a really nice features, sometimes I don't need all the files in the torrent.
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Duff-Man says...yeah, that is one thing about Azureus. I use Transmission as the default and Azureus when I only want selected files...oh yeah!
 
iBookG4user said:
I use Azureus as my main bittorrent client and Transmission as my backup. The ability to choose what files I want to download in Azureus is a really nice features, sometimes I don't need all the files in the torrent.
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Ditto, Azureus as the main Torrent handler, with Transmission as the backup. I get way faster downloads with Az, though.
 
are there any torrent handlers that are:

free,
light-weight,
able to select which files you want to download

that you guys might recommend?

thanks
 
µTorrent was at one time in private beta for their Mac OS X client, but no news at all about it recently. What gives?

I mostly like Transmission and all, but it can be a bit buggy and flaky.
 
i use azureus often...
i just installed transmission and i am comparing azureus and transmission dling the same file and transmission is going embarrassingly slow...

maybe its because i tweeked the options to "prevent bad peers from connecting" -- is that even worth it?

speaking of which--- i never did this for azureus (add a blocked peers list)

do you guys do this?
once, again is it worth it? why, why not?
 
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