Bits on Wheels

BitRocket is sweet, though nothing beats Azeurus on Mac. On windows, I find BitComet best. I mean it can select files, and has a very powerful interface.

Azureus for people who know how the bit torrent technology works.
For the newbies, just download the "autospeed" plugin and you don't have anything to configure anymore

Transmission

the winner is.... torrentflux

Me:

Mac - Transmission
Win - BitComet.

I never manage to success to use Azureus, I wonder why..

Thanks, that autospeed plugin works pritty darn good! (even tho your downloads will suffer, you will be able to browse the internet with out that much of a penalty... edit, well, now im gettin 200kbps on one of my torrents with it, it seems to just make azeureus more efficient and selective on peers im lovin it



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I use µTorrent on Windows, but recently I have had issues with it.

Tomato hands down on OSX and uTorrent on Windows. I used to use Azereus, then I learned about torrents. Azereus is bloated and uses way too many resources for the field of functionality it offers. They need to do a revamp on it's code, there's no reason for the ram and cpu it takes up.

I used bittornado for the longest time, until I signed up for a private site and they didnt allow me to use it. Switched to Azureus. By far my favorite client, but even with 2 gb of ram, it uses too many resources. I have been using utorrent for about a month now as a replacement, but I am having issues with it, it seems to not like my router.

I use uTorrent all the time. It works as a 400Kb standalone exe!

It is a quite full sized app... idc tho cause i have a good enough sys so i dont notice it, but that is quite true since utorrent is close and soo much lighter.

BitComet, is easily the best.

Azureus is awsome on all OS's

I know I've already posted my fav's in this thread, but the times have changed my opinions.

Windows - uTorrent
Linux - Azureus
OS X- Xtorrent

Which torrent apps in OSX use encryption to send/receive files. The reason why i ask this is most ISP's packet shape which causes Bit torrent files to go alot slower then what your actual speed can handle. TO get around that if the Data that is being sent is encrypted, the packet can't be striped and therefore it will go through as a secure data packet (Such as voice packets etc.). I have seen some for windows, but just wondering if there are any clients like this for OSX?

Thank you colonels, Xtorrent is the best I've seen in Mac OS X. I haven't been aware of it until I have read your post. First of all, it's universal and while most of the others need to be configured and make you loose time, you can start downloading right away with Xtorrent. (port configuration, bla, bla) Great interface, great tool, A final, end-user product at last.

With the windows part, I don't visit windows very often these days, but my favorite is BitComet.

Thanks colonels! BitComet is too buggy for my taste. But xtorrent feels like a real Mac application.

hmm... Xtorrent huh? I shall check it out. As for windows, I use Azureus, but I've been looking for a replacement lately, but haven't found anything I've really liked as much as Azureus... So I'm sticking with Azureus for now, even though its a resource hog.

I needed an OSX torrent client and discovered this thread here.

Seems there's no way I’m choosing Azureus since it's memory hogging according to many of you.
Was about to try Transmission until I read this:
Transmission Banned on OiNK ... Again



That just seems messed up. What now?
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BTW, for WINDOWS uTorrent is great but if anyone has used BitSpirit I live the information bar which floats around (can't remember what it's called). Wish uTorrent had that. I think it has something similar but that shows you information for only one download and you need many of them to show info for many downloads. In Bitspirit it would circle around displaying information for the downloads one at a time on the one bar.

PS: Was wondering what FTW was. Found this:
Urban Dictionary

I had been looking for a great Torrent app for ages - until I saw Xtorrent.
If Apple was to make a Bittorrent app, it would be Xtorrent.
It is simple, fast and the search function is genius!

..for what I know bittornado

http://www.bittornado.com/download.html

Azureus woooo!

runs good on my imac G3 350mHz

Bits on Wheels is best for me.

Transmission is by far the fastest, lightest and easiest on Mac - it can even open up ports by itself!
I don't use PCs much, but from what I have heard, uTorrent is the best

For me

Mac: Transmission
PC: uTorrent

If there was uTorrent for Mac, that would be handsdown undoubtedly the best bittorrent client ever. Transmission is probably the closest to uTorrent for the Mac. Azureus is way to advanced for the average user, so optimizing the client is more complex and time consuming.

XTorrent looks like a typical Apple designed program (which I love). However, I'm hearing a lot of bad things about its creater, David Watanabe, so I dont know if I should give it a try or not, especially since I have to pay for the program.

uTorrent for PC.
tried also Azureus, but still think that uTorrent is best for PC. Mac is my work-computer, so i have there only writing programs