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By: Transmission 0.7 Beta - Redefining BitTorrent on the Mac | Home gardening tips

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:55:54 +0000

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 18:26:45 +0000

[quote comment="82074"]How do we know if our isp is throteling or not torrents trafic? I’m downloading at 140K with transmission, and only at 2K with Azureus the same file. Could anyone explain why? Thank you.[/quote]

By: scott

scott — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 01:01:51 +0000

the new version of limewire is the easiest way i download on avarage 120kb – 300kb for torrents or another program is flashget with downloads at an awsome 10 percent of your internet connection at 8mb you get between 780kb and 920kb google it people. a whole film in 15 mins it took me a hour and half to download a whole season or sopranos

By: 105

105 — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:29:29 +0000

hi.

i’ve been using bittorrent but recently switched to transmission. its really easy to use but i havent downloaded anything from transmission days ago i finished downloading already but it went to 0% again. now my download progress was already 60% then decreased to 54%. i dont get it. . .how do i fix that?

By: James

James — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:28:17 +0000

Transmisson is nice and light-weight, and Azureus is more CPU intensive, but more feature-loaded. I love Transmission, it was great for when I was a torrent n00b and could barely even figure out how to use Transmission itself! =P

But now the choice for me is definitely Azureus. The ability to rename how torrents are displayed single handedly sealed the deal since I have seeded almost 200 torrents at one time. The advanced features can be daunting…. but it’s not too hard to learn.

I must admit that I hate that Vuze s**t in Azureus. If there weren’t the option of using the old, classic, UI (user interface) I would jump right back on the Transmission bandwagon. The Vuze content slows down my computer and wastes a huge amount of bandwidth, not to mention that all the HD content in Vuze has 1 seed and hundreds of leeches.

So what does this all mean for you? Well, take both clients out for a spin. Depending on how much you use torrents and how “advanced” of a user you are, you will be sure to fall in love with one or another. Transmission and Azureus are both great Mac apps. There are always other clients (but they be banned on certain trackers), just say the hell away from Xtorrent.

By: stu

stu — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 00:03:17 +0000

iv downloaded transmission for my mac but when i open it, and search for something, theres no results.. can sum1 help plz

By: Apple is Not Fruit » Transmission 0.7 Beta - Redefining BitTorrent on the Mac

Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:32:00 +0000

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By: Guido

Guido — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:54:54 +0000

I have tried Azureus and Transmission and the key reason I dont like Transmission is because it seems that after i download a torrent, it stops seeding. In other terms, it only helps my ration when I am downloading as jacked as that seems. Playing around with the options does nothing at all either.

I miss UTorrent….anyone have any advice for a guy trying to get more upload power!?

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DvD del.icio.us bookmarks : June 27, 2007 at Wannaplay.it — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 01:17:07 +0000

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uTorrent for Mac is Coming: An Early Review | TorrentFreak — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:29:56 +0000

[...] faster in it than in any other BitTorrent client. This held true when I compared uTorrent Mac to Transmission and Xtorrent. The downloads speeds in both couldn’t match uTorrent’s. Azureus was the [...]

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:46:16 +0000

How do we know if our isp is throteling or not torrents trafic? I’m downloading at 140K with transmission, and only at 2K with Azureus the same file. Could anyone explain why? Thank you.

By: jsdrake

jsdrake — Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:47:46 +0000

Does anyone know of a Mac client, other than Azureus, that permits selective downloading?

By: ManxStef

ManxStef — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 18:11:32 +0000

Hi Smaran,

Could you change the article’s link to the following, please? :-
http://chucker.mystfans.com/opensource/transmission/Transmission-latest.dmg

This will always reflect the latest build, rather than a 404 (file not found).

Thanks!

By: MHD

MHD — Sun, 25 Feb 2007 16:00:30 +0000

When does the watch folder feature work other then when the program launches? I let it sit there and added multiple torrents to the desktop and it never “watched” for them nor added them until I quit the program and reloaded it. Normal?

By: naj

naj — Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:04:30 +0000

hallo all

can anyone help me

im using transmisson 0.6.1 and ive got a macbook 2ghz intel. im downloading tons of kung fu films and only my average total kb per sec is between 30 an 100. its taking me years…not really in the know with this stuff and just new to getting a mac (my first computer) so not the greatest computer type, mainly use it for makin music. any tips how to get it rocking? cheers anybody,everybody.peace

By: logan

logan — Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:31:26 +0000

As a Mac-based bittorrent user here in Mexico, I’ve found that Transmission works best for me. I’m just waiting for the developers to add what I see as the killer feature: RC4 encryption…

It’s not that my ISP throttles bittorrent traffic–actually it feels like the whole connection is throttled after being used to American ISPs (Here on a “128k” connection I get 15k down, 6k up). I just see RC4 traffic encryption as an important evolutionary adaptation as the corporations that control internet connections continue to make more moves against bittorrent. I’m all for Net Neutrality, but it isn’t a reality at the moment.

Thanks to this thread, I’ve learned for the first time about Transmission’s core library being banned from some trackers… that seems like a key thing to fix as well, huh?

Hasta la prÃ³xima…

By: Justin Roettger

Justin Roettger — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:48:11 +0000

Encryption isn’t going to help you out with the RIAA and its ilk: it simply disguises the data you download/upload to make it look like it isn’t bittorrent traffic. Mostly it’s to help people who have crappy ISP’s that want to throttle their bittorrent traffic.

By: AlanBenjo

AlanBenjo — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:36:28 +0000

Hi guys,
if you are searching about
1. a very lighteight bittorrent client
2. fast
3. small RAM footprint
4. Universal binary
5. Not banned by private trackers
6. Free
What about http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23255
We give it a try? Cheers….
I’m not a unix geek but this sounds good….

By: Jason’s Random Tech News » Transmission 0.7 Beta - Redefining BitTorrent on the Mac

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:15:27 +0000

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By: James

James — Sun, 05 Nov 2006 07:27:48 +0000

All those saying xTorrent is better overall should do some more research

Good
- Search tool

Bad
- Will be shareware
- Based on libtransmission so it suffers the same problems related to tracker banning as Transmission