teehee Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Any thoughts on this? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/#findComment-159865 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hrgasr Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 It works well for me when I need it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/#findComment-159885 Share on other sites More sharing options...
lane Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I use Transmission http://www.chucker.rasdi.net/opensource/transmission/ It is amazingly featured for being so light weight, unfortunately the final release is buggy so I linked to the nightly builds which I have much more luck with (funny isn't it?). I suggest whatever you decide that you STAY CLEAR of that performance hog known as Azereus! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/#findComment-159907 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandwer Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 I use Transmissionhttp://www.chucker.rasdi.net/opensource/transmission/ It is amazingly featured for being so light weight, unfortunately the final release is buggy so I linked to the nightly builds which I have much more luck with (funny isn't it?). I suggest whatever you decide that you STAY CLEAR of that performance hog known as Azereus! I agree - it is fast and compact. Trouble with it is - and this may not apply to other people - if your ISP uses traffic shaping, then transmission will slow to a crawl when they have shaping turned on - usually during the day. At the time of writing, it doesn't have encryption built in to it (encryption prevents the ISP from identifying the traffic) and thats why I don't use it any more. The resource-warthog azureus does have this built in, but of course it want alls the resources available. Catch 22. Here's what I do - YMMV - I run bitcomet 0.7 in a parallels VM. Bitcomet has the encryption sorted, and is ok. It might seem overkill to run windows in a vm just to run a bt client, but it works better than azureus! //R Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/#findComment-159955 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Transmission is known to give you a negative peer to seed ratio, which causes you to be banned from certain trackers. Since it's in the beta stage, it tends to crash sometimes during downloads. I once had a 2 hour movie at 96%, Transmission decided to quit unexpectely, and an error in the torrent caused it to roll back to 3%. Use Azureus. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/#findComment-159959 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rammjet Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Another recent thread on the subject: http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=23231 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/#findComment-159980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXFiles Posted August 13, 2006 Share Posted August 13, 2006 i just use the bit torrent feature in Acquisition seeing as i use acquisition for most other things, it gets the job done Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/24063-best-torrent-client-for-os-x/#findComment-163948 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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