baysie Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 Bits on Wheels Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-195048 Share on other sites More sharing options...
U.C. Posted September 24, 2006 Share Posted September 24, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-195057 Share on other sites More sharing options...
chibi1 Posted September 28, 2006 Share Posted September 28, 2006 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-197460 Share on other sites More sharing options...
elz Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Transmission Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-199344 Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 the winner is.... torrentflux Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-199453 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandetta Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 Me: Mac - Transmission Win - BitComet. I never manage to success to use Azureus, I wonder why.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-199569 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted October 1, 2006 Share Posted October 1, 2006 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 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 max Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-199759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazrius Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I use µTorrent on Windows, but recently I have had issues with it. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-199916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
rollcage Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-199920 Share on other sites More sharing options...
koolaidman23 Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-200189 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabr Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 I'm very impressed with utorrent for PC. It's lightweight and quite powerful. I use uTorrent all the time. It works as a 400Kb standalone exe! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-200442 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted October 2, 2006 Share Posted October 2, 2006 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. 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-200456 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Then there were none. Posted October 3, 2006 Share Posted October 3, 2006 BitComet, is easily the best. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-200904 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 Azureus is awsome on all OS's Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-203131 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted October 6, 2006 Share Posted October 6, 2006 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-203196 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mka101 Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 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? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-210810 Share on other sites More sharing options...
McSkywalker Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-210841 Share on other sites More sharing options...
velayo Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Thanks colonels! BitComet is too buggy for my taste. But xtorrent feels like a real Mac application. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-210858 Share on other sites More sharing options...
ProjectTux Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 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. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-210895 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mebster Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 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 Transmission has been banned at OiNK again. "Transmission is now a banned client again. It does not obey the bittorrent protocol properly and is putting extra, unnecessary strain on our tracker. I'd post on their forums what is wrong with it, but last time I posted there I didn't much like the response. This isn't up for debate, the client is not welcome here." Better trash Transmission then, I'm not going to risk my account for a broken client on any tracker. Transmission has also either allowed users to cheat or sent bad data to the tracker. There have been cases of several accounts so showing 16,777,7777 TB of upload. That just seems messed up. What now? ............................................................................ 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 Commonly used among geeks to express their enthusiasm for something, especially in IRC. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-214699 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted November 4, 2006 Share Posted November 4, 2006 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! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-225561 Share on other sites More sharing options...
FavleX Posted January 20, 2007 Share Posted January 20, 2007 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? ..for what I know bittornado http://www.bittornado.com/download.html Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-280492 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mac os x forever Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Azureus woooo! runs good on my imac G3 350mHz Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-357247 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pego Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 Bits on Wheels is best for me. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-357369 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted May 2, 2007 Share Posted May 2, 2007 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/5390-whats-the-best-bittorrent-client/page/3/#findComment-357395 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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