Ranger Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 So I've used Azureus for a year or so now, and I've always been pretty happy with it, except for the fact that it uses a lot of CPU resources and is a little slow as a program. I tried uTorrent a few weeks ago and really enjoyed it. For Windows or OS X, which client do you use? I've also tried Transmission on a Mac, and it seems good as well, although I do sorta miss the cluttered UI of Azureus that told me a ton more than I needed to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 IMO Azureus for multiple files, BitTorrent for single file, althou I use eDonkey2000 with a BitTorrent plugin on XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyrana Posted December 5, 2005 Share Posted December 5, 2005 I've never found much of a difference between any of them, other than some crashing more or using more RAM. Then again, I only use BT for the occasional TV show that I missed. I like Tomato Torrent on OSX, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted December 20, 2005 Share Posted December 20, 2005 Tomato Torrent on OS X is my favorite as well. And man does that Dock icon look juicy and delicious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted March 12, 2006 Share Posted March 12, 2006 i agree, tomato torrent is the fastest i have got my hands into. is there a bitcomet like app for mac os x? coz i like that option wherein you can choose not to d/l the whole torrent but pick just the one you want... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 I've always used Azureus. I've tried others, but none seem to be as good. But that's just my opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickhamm Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 I used Bits on Wheels on MacOS and am pretty happy with the interface. It seems to run fairly decent even though it is not Universal yet. On Windows I used to use Azureus, but now I am using uTorrent because Azureus had major memory leakage and ate up my CPU cycles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rohde Posted March 14, 2006 Share Posted March 14, 2006 On OS X I use Transmission. Quite good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jfn Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 I use Transmission now, instead of Tomato. Great program. Wish there were a non-Azureus full-featured program though, like uTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 What's so bad about Azureus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jbjonas Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 Azureus is the best. Hands down, no issues... I don't know what memory leak you are talking about Nickhamm. What version of Azureus? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lane Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 No contest. Azureus is the only decent client on OS X but it's laggy, resource intensive and basically java bloatware. If you need a really lightweight feature packed client and have a Windows box to host it off then try this. ABC Torrent If you want to use it from your mac (or from anywhere for that matter) simply set up the Web based interface and put this up on a web server somewhere. For extra security you should password protect the directory using .htaccess if you can. I host this at mydomain.com/abc and I set up a user/pass for getting into that folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HShin Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 The "leakage" is a pun, for those who aren't in on the joke. Azureus' problem lies in the Java engine it depends on, which just makes it gobble up system resources like a fat kid on Value Meal, hence the "leakage". For a no frills BT app, I'd recommend Transmission, as it has proven time and again to be the fastest bit-guzzler in the Mac Galaxy. And it's written from ground up to be system resource friendly. However its biggest problem right now is that it doesn't have DHT (Distributed Hash Table) layer support. As a result many torrents simply don't work on this client. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted March 15, 2006 Share Posted March 15, 2006 For Mac I use Transmission and for Windows I use Bit Comet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snackole Posted March 16, 2006 Share Posted March 16, 2006 If you fine tune Azureus it runs real smooth. Open the preferences, go to Interface/Display change update gui from every 1 second to 2 seconds and change update graphical bars from 4 to 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A Nonny Moose Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Use Opera (the Opera 9 beta) and get web browsing, IRC, and torrent support all in one package Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blackentangled Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 is it just me or torrent support in opera9 beta is slow? anyways it's still beta... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miranda Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Transmission works really great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 I'm very impressed with utorrent for PC. It's lightweight and quite powerful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XanthraX Posted March 24, 2006 Share Posted March 24, 2006 I'm verry impressed about BitComet on Windows (but without Bitcomet accelerator that contains spywares). On Mac, I like Bits On Wheels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitesh Posted March 26, 2006 Share Posted March 26, 2006 utorrent for windows azureus for mac ..pretty good never crashes and i download a lot wid good speeds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 utorrent on windows ktorrent on linux (kde ofcourse, as good as or better than utorrent) azureus on OS X (I'd like to find a better one though) the key to using any of them is to manually forward a port on your router rather than use upnp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macprodan Posted May 21, 2006 Share Posted May 21, 2006 to be honest, i used to be a Big fan of Azureus back in my Windows Days.. lol. i find the UI on Azureus horrible in OS X. No i would like to promote Transmission, nice more mac'ish UI. Works just as well as Azureus in my experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BRP Posted May 22, 2006 Share Posted May 22, 2006 utorrent on windowsktorrent on linux (kde ofcourse, as good as or better than utorrent) azureus on OS X (I'd like to find a better one though) the key to using any of them is to manually forward a port on your router rather than use upnp Maybe it's changed in the year or so since I used it, but as much as I like KDE (KDE WOOOOOO!), ktorrent stinks (stunk?). It starts downloading at the beginning... and goes through each piece little by little, till it gets to the end. Naturally, it goes very slow and I was wondering what was taking it until I opened up the torrent in Azureus.... But my favorite BT client in Linux by far is rtorrent. Simple, lightweight, console-based, extremely efficient (read: bandwidth go boom and argh), and fast as you'll let it be. I haven't gotten rtorrent to build on my macs ever (I've only tried it on the MacBook, so support is probably still not there yet), so I've used Bits on Wheels because it's really cool. I haven't tried it on my MacBook just yet (it isn't Unibin right now), but I'll look at Transmission even though it doesn't seem to have all the features I want, just because it has nice aesthetics to it. In my opinion, Azureus is the best on any platform, but since it's a resource hog (JAVA GAHHH) and I don't have any computers with RAM to spare, I don't use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnniecarcinogen Posted May 23, 2006 Share Posted May 23, 2006 I used to never give ktorrent a try but I can assure you it is nice now. It does seem to download the first half of the torrent before the end half but It didn't seem to compromize speed. (i stopped ktorrent and resumed with azureus and kt was faster). the options allow you to choose memory imprint size, etc. but for some reason you have to enable the sys tray icon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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