Utorrent, Bittorrent Mainline For Mac
UTorrent is a light client from BitTorrent that uses fewer resources than others of its sort. This simple.exe file contains a powerful app for downloading files in.torrent format with greater speed and reliability than other P2P programs like Emule.
Count me in as the first vote against Transmission. It's great for lightweight torrenting (one or two torrents and lots of apathy. Seriously.), but anything beyond that and Mainline/Transmission/TomatoTorrent go out the window.
Bits on Wheels is sorta good if you're a PPC user, otherwise it uses just as much resources and isn't as powerful as the Azureus unibin. One caveat: some sites ban a lot of the Mac clients because they don't follow the protocol correctly (cough Transmission, BoW) or is just too obscure (Tomato Torrent), so check it out before you start using a new client. For guaranteed compatibility and tons of features, go Azureus. Note: I'm totally biased, as I bittorrent all the damn time and can't stand the utterly pathetic features in every single client outside of Azureus when it comes to banning peers that send bad data, having complex seeding rules instead of simply ratio/time based rules, actual queues, global and per-torrent upload/download speed regulation, manual announces. Azureus is the only one that really works properly with multiple torrents when it comes to connectability (read: NONE of the other Mac clients will have connectable torrents if you start opening torrents halfway into your session, even though the ones you opened at the beginning are connectable, hence requiring a restart every time I open a new torrent to make it connectable?!? Hell no, I don't think so.), and best of all, is the only one that actually only connects to peers from the tracker and nobody else if you want it to.
In addition you can force hash checks anytime you want, which surprisingly enough some clients can't do even though they can all fast-resume (no hash checking) torrents in their own way. The best some of them can do is hash check automatically after finishing a download, which obviously leads to corrupted files, misreported statistics, getting banned from peers because you downloaded and then proceeded to upload a file that got corrupted and stuff like that.
I've been using Tomato Torrent for the occasional download, and as long as you only have one or two torrents going it's excellent. But once you try using it for 10-20 it really slows down my system (iBook G4@800MHz, 640MB RAM), using 100% CPU constantly. Based on recommendations in this thread I tried Transmission, and now my whole machine is responsive again. Transmission is happily using 15% and even with AirTunes running my CPU averages 50% and I can start and use other apps without any (noticeable) slowdown. Transmission rules.
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Click to expand.You mean Transmission, right? Transmit is an FTP client And i'm not too much of a fan of acquisition, paying for a p2p app?
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I'll donate, but never pay or use nagware. Personally, I'd like a uTorrent port (guys.if you're any good with c and mac development.please go talk to ludde in #utorrent about helping porting it to osx ). Transmission is like the halfassed-and-missing-most-of-the-features Mac sister of uTorrent, and it's a shame, because I want something more than pretty, I want something functional and I'm not willing to give up functionality for some pretty app.