Torrent Program?

[taluh]

hi, i have tomato torrent at the moment but all of a sudden it no longer connects to tracker.
Could some one please help me with this prob or let me know of a fast, simple torrent program (preferably one where i can view my downloaded torrents and curent downloads, like bit torrent)
THANKYOU!

 

[optyks]

I use uTorrent. It works excellently for me.

 

[sharkethic86]

i personally use Vuze (Azureus) - works great and has great wifi syncing to your PS3 or xbox so you can watch the media you just downloaded on your mac on your big hdtv!

 

[charlesbronsen]

Transmission. Light footprint and excellent speeds.

 

[nws0291]

Transmission or uTorrent beta

 

[philgilder]

another vote for transmission

 

[broken-chaos]

My vote's for Transmission too. I used to use Tomato, but it got a little too light on the features for my tastes.

Now I'm using Transmission with it set to download to ~/Downloads/Torrents (with that directory not Spotlight indexed for speed concerns), and automatically add torrents in ~/Downloads. As well, it picks a random port on startup and automatically gets it opened, and only accepts encrypted connections. Works great. Only annoyance is that it can take a long time to finish cleaning up when I quit - up to a minute to finish writing out to disk and doing its thing.

 

[fhall1]

Transmission blows away the utorrent version for the Mac

 

[Gattz]

I've never heard of Transmission, why is that better than say Vuze or uTorrent? I use uTorrent on PC, but not on Mac because it's in beta for Mac. I've been using Vuze instead because it does what I need it to do. I don't like the videos page, though. I mean if you just set your settings correctly, isn't it all just doing the same thing in the end?

 

[DKatri]

transmission has served me well for a year or so now

 

[messedkid]

Another vote for Transmission.

I use uTorrent on my netbook, but only because there is no Transmission for Windows.

 

[taluh]

Transmission it is then

Thank you for all your help!

 

[broken-chaos]

I've never heard of Transmission, why is that better than say Vuze or uTorrent?

It's a very mature application on OS X - been released for years now. I found, years ago, Azeurus (as Vuze was called then - which was the last time I touched it) was too bloated and useless-feature-heavy for my liking. µTorrent sounds like it's still in beta on OS X...

On a more idealistic note, Transmission is also open source, which is more than I can say about µTorrent... I'm also wary of Vuze's 'custom' licence requirements, beyond the GPL.