Comments on: Mac BitTorrent Clients Reviewed

By: K'ed

K'ed — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:44:38 +0000

dude you uTorrent sucks ass, Vuse sucks, xTorrent sucks and transmission definitely sucks. i am having so much trouble seeding torrents from demnoid and uploading especial Vuse and TransmissionBT. and on the beta of snow leopard if you run transmision your computer will freeze. it is unstable.

Demonoid should make there own BT client for mac, windows and linux

Then it would be easier lol

By: bill

bill — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:11:06 +0000

uTorrent downloads and seeds quite well, gives good statistics and runs well in the background, but it doesn't seem to have the ability to create a torrent. Am I missing something?

By: Klas

Klas — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 10:36:16 +0000

Unless you're not on leopard of course.

By: Im Use Windows, But

Im Use Windows, But — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 06:47:24 +0000

DOODS!
HASNT ANYONE NOTICED RECENTLY

uTORRENT HAS MADE A MAC FRIENDLY VERSION
FINALY
AND
BUG REPORT SAYS IT PRETTY CLEAR SINCE LAST UPDATE

uTORRENT FOR MACS:
SELECTIVE DOWLOADS
# OF SEEDERS
# OF PEERS
% DONE
TIME TAKEN
ESTIMATED TIME OF FINISH
NAMED TRACKERS
AND A SPEED GRAPH

I BET YOUR ALL THINKING
'WOW' 'F***ING' HUGE APP!'

WELL YOUR WRONG

LESS THAN 300MB
USES AN AVERAGE OF 8MB RAM

ITS REALY GOOD WITH A WIRED CONNECTIONS ASWELL

I RECOMEND YOU REPLACE WHATEVER YOUR USING NOW
AND GET uTORRENT

By: Amazing Rando

Amazing Rando — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 06:42:04 +0000

uTorrent IS for OSX now. Maybe you could spend 20 seconds in Google before shooting off that reply. http://mac.utorrent.com/

By: PDW

PDW — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 01:37:15 +0000

This post is about OSX BT clients

By: Jparr

Jparr — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:14:59 +0000

No one should ever use Transmission ever again!!! Everyone: download UTorrent. It's free, google it, and download it. So much faster than Transmission. I was downloading a 6 GB file on transmission, took 5+ days. Downloaded the same thing using UTorrent, took a few hours.

By: David R

David R — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:24:46 +0000

To the author of this article: Thank you SOOOOOO much. When I updated to the newest BitTorrent, it began driving me mad with DL interruptions caused by errors (not to mention a host of other annoyances). After I read this article and DL’ed Transmission, not only did the interruptions cease (that alone >10x’ed the functional rates) – but also the max UL rate quadrupled, which had the side benefit of doubling the max DL rate.

Since I’m a Comcast user, I dunno whether that’s because Transmission is that much more robust, or because Transmission data flies under the radar of Comcast’s “traffic shaping.” But either way, I’m very grateful. To the author, and to Transmission’s developer: THANK YOU.

By: ml

ml — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 21:20:19 +0000

Xtorrent is a nice and simple program as well.

By: Chris H

Chris H — Sat, 31 May 2008 10:46:28 +0000

Greate guide, I downloaded Transmission after reading this article (newbie Mac user)… worth noting, however, is that Transmission DOES have selective downloading! Not just Azureus.

By: valli

valli — Fri, 16 May 2008 11:14:03 +0000

I just can’t stand Azureus, it is a cheap Java App that simply sucks on every system. Downloading is ok, but the UI, workflow and that mediacenter thing are really bad.

By: vokality

vokality — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 20:54:49 +0000

Can anyone suggest some good bittorrent directories to use with Transmission

By: Jamie R

Jamie R — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 15:29:18 +0000

I have been using Bit Rocket but it is unstable, regularly crashing on OSX. Just downloaded Transmission, with thanks to this article.

By: Stephy

Stephy — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 16:57:07 +0000

Bit on Wheels uses only one processor and it uses it a LOT.

By: Ray Zorback

Ray Zorback — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 23:49:56 +0000

Awesome reviews. I DL’d Transmission and it works fine for what I need.

Thanks for the post & the info! I’ve searched for this everywhere!

-Ray

By: tomfrey

tomfrey — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:15:14 +0000

Since I switched to 10.5 I’ve been having trouble finding a client that works. Both Bittorrent and Azureus don’t seem stable. Transmission doesn’t seem to understand the new firewall system, always gives a red light. I’m using Bitrocket, but it has a couple of annoying bugs – it occasionally gets confused and generates negative share ratios, and it crashes if I choose a torrent from Tapecity. Anyone with any insight into any of this, I’d be glad to hear from you.

By: Mr

Mr — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:58:02 +0000

Dick

By: James P

James P — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 15:26:11 +0000

Great site! Thanks for the help picking a Torrent Client… Transmission is fast and works great. Also TV torrent work good.

By: music boxes

music boxes — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 05:19:32 +0000

music boxes…

Greetings from Europe. Good blog….

By: charles

charles — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 20:18:02 +0000

Used Azureus…wasn’t a big fan. Also have been using Bits on Wheels. Love the look and feel of it but seems really buggy. Crashes a lot. Really wish they would of made an updated version of it.

Just downloaded Transmission and seems really nice and easy to use.