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Recommend a Mac BitTorrent program
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Obviously I don't want to use it for anything ILLEGAL, just downloading open-office, various Linux distributions, etc...
Anyway, I didn't ask where I could find torrents, I was just interested in the app itself. So far, I still don't know which one to try so I'm torrent free.
Cheers,
Steve.
Azureus is still the king if you need every bell and whistle. I like Transmission and XTorrent a lot, but they share an engine that is problematic for sites that track ratios. My current favorite is Bitrocket, which has some interface issues (selection is wonky), but looks like a Mac app, and is fast and resource lean. Well worth a look.
your ISP can, and many do (and also, many don't realize this at all and give up on bittorrent because of slow speeds).
In fact Azureus would probably be the only and also universal torrent client for Mac OS X with protocol encryption that would let you bypass that throttling.
That being said, I brought up a week-old thread just to say that Azureus is the client to go with if you want to have the least amount of hassles both in terms of general usage and on certain trackers and you still want a GUI.
Transmission, BitRocket, Xtorrent, Tomato, Mainline (yuck),...all of that..out the window for me.
Maybe BitTornado or rtorrent if you REALLY need alternatives because you can't stand Azureus.
any that you can schedule a d/l to start at a specified time, or pause a current d/l until a specified time? (except Azureus with speed scheduler plugin)
It costs money to use it without all the annoying stuff getting in the way.
I don't mean to be arsey, but what do the two previous posts mean? I simply can't understand what those sentences mean...
They're pretty, but far from functional.
I'll take functional "bloat"ware like Azureus over the likes of a useless basic designed-for-bittorrent-noobs-by-a-bittorrent-noob pile of **** like Xtorrent.
haha - that quite a strong opinion about his apps
I've never used Xtorrent, but I both own and use NewsFire (and Inquisitor) and think it's a great app. I would imagine he does an alright job with Xtorrent as well...
Anyway, my money is still on BitRocket until Transmission hits 0.7.
hmm... a question about Transmission... when I dowloaded the client, it set up a removable media HDD image on the desktop and a image file of some sort. Is this normal? Is there a cleaner way to get it to run?
Which in itself proves nothing unless you are caught with copywritten files uploading or downloading. Just because your IP address is discovered, that proves nothing other than you were on the network. Within that proof, there is no indication whether or not you were there legally downloading/uploading or not. If that were the case, you could be sued by the RIAA for merely being on there if they obtained your IP address, even though you were on there hosting the latest OpenOffice build (for instance), which is legal.
IP address by itself does not incriminate anyone. And there are ways to keep your privacy (ie IP address) from being compromised.
In fact, this has been proven several times already by lawsuits where the RIAA had a person's IP address, and the defendant's attorney asked for proof other than IP address, to which the RIAA had no proof and the case was dismissed by lack of evidence.
