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?

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.

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

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!

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

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 próxima…

Good
- Search tool

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

I would implore you to check your facts before posting an article. Your assertions that Transmission’s speed limit feature was inspired by XTorrent are unfounded and quite wrong.

Transmission is a fluid work in progress, and as such, not all new features arereleased in separate versions. Many features have been added since 0.6.1, but there has not been a release yet.

Transmission first used the speed limit schedular back in August, a full month before XTorrent was released. The Speed Limit function on its own was committed to the Transmission SVN back in July.

The Auto-import function is not, in fact, inspired by XTorrent at all. Quite the opposite. Transmission’s SVN had this feature long before XTorrent, all the way back in July.

Please, in the future, don’t make claims you can’t back up.

Uh, no. Encryption doesn’t hide what you are downloading or uploading from peers. Think about it: you can see the IPs of peers downloading or uploading the same file you are. That’s all you need.

Azureus is the only client that has all the features I need – encryption included. The plugin architecture means that there will always be more features available in Azureus than anywhere else, and it runs plenty fast on any Mac from the last three years or so. I run it on a 1-Ghz G4 and it’s fine.

I’ve used Transmission before and while it looks good the lack of a search engine is a deal breaker.

You don’t have to leave the app to find the torrent you are looking for. Why hasn’t this been done before?

grab the highest-numbered build, but remember they’re “unstable” releases at this point.

XTORRENT rules them all. It’s from the maker of Acquisition, and it shows… google it people[/quote]

you mean the guy who copied an open source gnutella client for mac, put his name on it, called it Acquisition, and charged for it?

XTORRENT rules them all. It’s from the maker of Acquisition, and it shows… google it people

Much like everything else, if it does the job for you and you’re happy with it then there isn’t really any impetus to switch. Having said that, and depending of course on your needs, I think you’ll find some other Mac torrent clients to be better than Tomato-torrent. Bits on wheels is nice, transmission is small and doesn’t hog your system resources, Azureus is jam-packed with advanced features but is also Java-based so it’s slow and demanding. Try a few other clients to find out what you prefer, but like I said, if you’re happy with Tomato and you don’t need anything else, run with it.

Yes, definately, the best non-working, half-functional torrent app out there. The first one i’ve seen in my life that’s completely unable to open .torrent files and limits you to its own half-assed search.

But hey… as long as it looks nice… ;)

For now, it is only BitRocket and Azureuz that is clean on the mac.

:)

… the name of the program is ‘Transmission’….

It is a shifter for a transmisison.

I hope you were being sarcastic there…