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what is your preferred torrent program for mac?
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BitRocket has been working flawlessley with the exception of one little bug. Its a beta release so I would expect great things in the near future. Ive gotten a few torrents to download as fast as 300+kbs. I think it depends more on the torrent than the program used to download.
BitRocket has not been updated in yonks. It is pretty much dead, no? I liked it, but very unstable. Select a torrent that has been downloading for a while in the list, and the app crashes immediately.
Transmission is almost there, with some nifty additional features.
Transmission is almost there, with some nifty additional features.
Transmission all the way. Once got Ubuntu in 13 mins!
Of course, it took about half that to decide OS X was the better form of UNIX.
Of course, it took about half that to decide OS X was the better form of UNIX.
Transmission all the way. Once got Ubuntu in 13 mins!
Of course, it took about half that to decide OS X was the better form of UNIX.
Based on this statement i just downloaded transmission and with the same torrent it is only getting 70-80KBs where as Az is getting 200-250KBs
Transmission is the best but without Peer Guardian working on Leopard the only real safe choice at the moment is azureus
This should probably be a poll.
Add me to the list of satisfied Transmission users. Once they added the ability to selectively download files from within a Torrent it became the perfect torrent app for me: fast, small and stable.
Add me to the list of satisfied Transmission users. Once they added the ability to selectively download files from within a Torrent it became the perfect torrent app for me: fast, small and stable.
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why does'nt azureus work for me. I downloaded it ok. and mounted. But when I try to open it, it shows up in the dock for a sec or two then goes away. what am I doing wrong?
why does'nt azureus work for me. I downloaded it ok. and mounted. But when I try to open it, it shows up in the dock for a sec or two then goes away. what am I doing wrong?
I would use Transmission myself...except it's always been buggy for me
Azureus works just as well (if not better) and i haven't had any problems with it so far
If you can have Transmission without it f***ing up your computer, like it did mine, then it's the best...any lack of speed you may find are made up for by the lightness of the program
Azureus works just as well (if not better) and i haven't had any problems with it so far
If you can have Transmission without it f***ing up your computer, like it did mine, then it's the best...any lack of speed you may find are made up for by the lightness of the program
I like how people seem to think switching a client will automatically and magically change speed.
It depends on who the client is connecting too, what time of day, etc...
It is very hard to make a fair test -- but Az is a big resource hog is nothing else.
I try to use Transmission, but sometimes you need PeerGuard that comes with Az...
I still would suggest Transmission.
(and for a really bare bones client, Tomato Torrent has always been there for me, but it's really bare bones, lol)
the above poster is right. the client itself doesn't determine speeds. it's all about seeds and location.
i just like transmission b/c it is so simple and neat. very easy and has a cool icon lol
i just like transmission b/c it is so simple and neat. very easy and has a cool icon lol
the problem with transmission is you cant select only certain files to download instead of it automatically downloadiing the whole lot.
does anyone know how to make my speeds faster?
my speeds for this torrent are so slow despite 17 seeds connected and 27 peers.
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also why are there those stupid symbols? it makes it hard to work things out
does anyone know how to make my speeds faster?
my speeds for this torrent are so slow despite 17 seeds connected and 27 peers.
also why are there those stupid symbols? it makes it hard to work things out
Just make sure there are a lot of seeders and peers for the file, at least 5-10 of each and then you should get pretty good speeds.
Actually you can select which files to download out of a folder using transmission (which is my choice btw, never had problems with it besides speed, but that's more a problem with the actual torrent.)
Usually when downloading a folder, there is a folder icon next to the title and status bar of whatever you are downloading, under this icon is a little star thing with a down-arrow next to it, click that arrow and a list pops up that shows all of the files you are downloading, and you can uncheck any that you don't want or need.
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