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

Then it would be easier lol

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

http://mac.utorrent.com/

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.

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

-Ray

Greetings from Europe. Good blog….

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

Give me a program that actually works. What a piece of crap.

1- rTorrent
Extremely light command line client written in C++ with its own library that works flawlessly on Unix boxes. Highly recommended to those who don’t care much about appearence but value performance instead and are not afraid of the command line.
LibTorrent is a BitTorrent library written in C++ for *nix, with a focus on high performance and good code. The library differentiates itself from other implementations by transfering directly from file pages to the network stack. On high-bandwidth connections it is able to seed at 3 times the speed of the official client.
The client uses ncurses and is ideal for use with screen, dtach or simply Terminal or iTerm. It supports saving of sessions and allows the user to add torrents by dragging them to a specific folder.

2- KTorrent
KTorrent is a BitTorrent program for KDE. The current release is 2.1rc1 which is the second release on the way to the final 2.1 release.
Features:

* uTorrent compatible peer exchange
* Zeroconf extension to find peers on the local network
* WebGUI plugin
* RSS plugin
* Grouping feature to put torrents into groups
* Search plugin, which allows multiple searches
* Upload and download speed capping
* Internet searching using various search engines, you can even add your own
* UDP Trackers
* Port forwarding with UPnP
* IP blocking plugin
* Importing of partially or fully downloaded files
* Support for distributed hash tables (mainline version)
* Protocol encryption
* Bandwith scheduling
* Directory scanner to automatically load torrents in certain directories
* Trackers can be added to torrents
* File prioritization for multi file torrents

These are just to name a few.

These clients can be easily installed/uninstalled through Fink, or if you’re feeling adventurous, compiled from their latest downloaded source for more recent and better versions of them.
Damn, what took me so long to find out about these?

Peace.

P.s.: Texts extracted from their respective sites and a bit adapted to this column.[/quote]

Great post!!…

cool site…

you just have to go to view – advanced and then open the torrent file from within Azureus.

Also,

An application called bitrocket (http://www.bitrocket.org/) is open source, native, and appears to support selective downloading (though I haven’t tried it myself). Best of all worlds.

I would like to note that I am looking forward to the Mac Release of uTorrent (so I can try it out). At the time of this comment, the uTorrent site indicates that it is not yet available to the public. It does seem like a closed beta test may be in progress.
When it does come out I hope it won’t be another one of these OS 10.4 or later apps (grr).

For those who don’t know, OS 10.4 or later apps just sit there doing nothing when you try to run them in OS 10.3.9, no error message, just nothing…

Oh and I like Version tracker for your every day download of share ware, demos and the like. That is where I have found all the torrent software I use (you can sometimes even find older versions of things).

http://www.versiontracker.com/

Eventually I will assimilate a decent comprehension of torrent traffic.
Please don’t read this and think I know what I am talking about. My perspective is very limited so far.
That said, I am a Graphic Designer with a past including Air Force Tech on aircraft, so I am not completely in the dark…

——-

Here is an assortment of questions, observations and gray areas I hope someone can help me with :
(for context I am running OS 10.3.9 on a dual proc 867 Mac G4 – So some newer versions of these apps might be out that I can’t use)

I have tried the following torrent clients:

Transmission – Version in use: 0.6.1 (v480)
- Currently using for lack of something that seems better.

Tomato Torrent – Version in use: 1.5b1
- I used to use this and get good results, but recently I started getting refused by trackers and getting slow downloads.
-One feature I really liked was the ability to control upload speed for each torrent separately (Transmission only allows one upload limit for all active torrents).
-It also had a feature that allowed you to control how often more peers where requested (seems like a kool thing).

Bits on Wheels – Version in use: 1.0.6
- While I did like all the information it seemed to be providing, it seemed to me to consistently drop the ball with regard to actual download speed. (which is kind of the whole point isn’t it?!?)

I did try out other clients, I don’t remember which, but when an app does something I think is squirely or suspect I immediately delete it so I don’t forget and use it again…

——-

It seemed that only one person made mention of traffic shaping with regard to torrent traffic.
Isn’t traffic shaping the big daddy obstacle to p2p use?

Port forwarding: This particular voodoo has got me stumped.
I have the following network setup: Cable modem — vonage box — netgear WGR612 router (wireless routing shut off) — My afore mentioned G4 (in that order).
I have tried configuring my port forwarding but it ‘seemed’ like when I did that, my isp (charter com in Michigan) would gimp my bandwidth. I actually asked them about this (I know – funny right) and they said that they did not use traffic shaping (of course I was speaking to some guy in India doing a halfway decent job of pretending to be American so maybe he was just lying…).

Is there a difference in encryption or lack of it between different clients (or trackers for that matter)?

The tracker I mostly use is The Pirate Bay which seems ok for a public tracker.
Demonoid is down btw: someone got to their server provider, so they are offline.

Is there a way to make my client use some discretion with regard to upload vs. download speed?
I usually keep an eye on my up vs. down and sometimes it gets to be a real crappy deal: maxed up with just a trickle down. when that happens I either pause, quit, or (x) my torrent (Using transmission) and restart my connection. I have done that and gone from a 5 KB/s download to 150 KB/s! Why???

With regard to upload limits, I seem to start choking my bandwidth off anytime I go over a 30 or 40KB/s upload limit (I can go higher but when I do my download starts dropping through the floor). I have a 3 mb cable modem service (sometime even the 5mb service) which I know can go way higher for upload. Is this the ‘non-existent’ traffic shaping again?

What about incoming TCP port? I don’t leave mine set at the default 9090 that Transmission uses because of an article suggesting traffic shaping functions by filtering certain traffic patterns on certain ports. It actually does seem to function better with a higher port setting.

——-

Sorry if anything I have said was dumb or offended anyone, I just want to know more and some of you seem to know what you are talking about…

With my experience so far with this program I wouldn’t buy it anyway, because I just got headaches from the “please buy” window that cannot be closed unless you visit the web page and that’s counting back the time I’ve got to do fast downloads…

And on top of that, what’s with this guy that’s trying to charge people for a piece of software that everybody will use to do ILLEGAL downloads.Ok, the interface is nice, and has many good ideas, but he can’t complain if someone else cracks or keygens his software… Come on, 24 bucks is way too much to pay for a torrent client… I guess that he won’t get much money in a short term and will either drop the price, stop developing, or create a reliable trial.

Anyway, I keep waiting for uTorrnt for Mac!

It smells a bit fishy to me and seems to have generated some questionable blocks in peer guardian.

please correct me if I’m wrong.

Just went on the utorrent website and read that they would be releasing a mac version soon.

Hope this is of any help to anyone!

Dano

http://www.analogx.com/contents/download/network/bitpump.htm/quote

I couldn’t find a Mac version of it. The article is about Mac clients, yes?

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