teehee Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Any thoughts on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martin1976 Posted August 9, 2006 Share Posted August 9, 2006 Link to comment 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 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 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 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 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 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 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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