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New Bittorrent Client: Transmission

Azureus will be hoggy on a G4 PowerMac 733 with half-gig of RAM. But, its still solid and handles 10 or 30 torrents simultaneously just fine.

Def will give Transmission a try though.
 
Yebot said:
Azureus will be hoggy on a G4 PowerMac 733 with half-gig of RAM. But, its still solid and handles 10 or 30 torrents simultaneously just fine.

Def will give Transmission a try though.
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I find azureus to be pretty good, I espescially like the abilty to download specific files and exclude others, that is a selling point for sure..But if this transmission thing is by the same peeps as handbrake then I will try it for sure because handbrake is one of the greatest freeware apps I've ever seen.

thanks for the heads up :)
 
g^3 said:
hi, i have tried many bittorrent clients and can't figure out how to get faster dl speeds. i'm stuck at 20-30kb/s if i'm lucky! i've tried turning my firewall off and setting different ports with no luck. could you please give me some suggestions. thank you
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:eek: Wow you're lucky! I use Tomato Torrent and rarely reach those speeds. I too find it takes days to download something and eventually I just give up.

Bittorrent is way too slow for me.
 
thanks for pointing this app out! i'm definitely keeping my eye on it.

as for properly configuring bit torrent, i guess getting 750+k/sec downloads and uploading at my max of 46k/sec is properly configured

i'm on a 6mb down connection so... i'm essentially maxing that out.

i use nonstandard ports instead of the common BT ports, and forward them from my router to my LAN IP address. works beautifully. the sad thing is that where i download from tends to require you have a good ratio standing.. as such i can download at 750k/sec and then only upload at 45k/sec... leaving me uploading for days just to keep my ratio up.

He seems to have a nice feature list he's looking to implement as well. i'm anxious to see how well he pulls it off.
 
Guys i can't get it to work...
I used Azuerus on my pc before, and i tried setting it up on my mac but it wont work... It keeps on saying under tracker status (error 6889), but when i did the set up it said the port was ok! How do i fix this?
 
It says on the Azureus website that you need Java 1.5, which, on OS X, means that you need OS X 10.4.x. Is there some way to use Azureus on OS X 10.3.9?
 
Transmissions port is user-definable, just hit "command + ," and select it in there, it efaults to the default 6881 I believe.

That said I have fully changed over rom Bits on Wheels now, transmission is great, especially how lightweight it is.
 
aspro said:
Transmissions port is user-definable, just hit "command + ," and select it in there, it efaults to the default 6881 I believe.

That said I have fully changed over rom Bits on Wheels now, transmission is great, especially how lightweight it is.
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Got it .... tx!
 
g^3 said:
hi, i have tried many bittorrent clients and can't figure out how to get faster dl speeds. i'm stuck at 20-30kb/s if i'm lucky! i've tried turning my firewall off and setting different ports with no luck. could you please give me some suggestions. thank you
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It all depends on seeders and peers. Lots of seeders and peers generally means a fast download. Less popular torrents are generally slower.
 
Lacero said:
Azureus is a good app. I must have transferred over 1.2TB downloads/uploads without it ever crashing or any issue with hogging RAM.
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Agreed, Azureus is my client of choice as well. I found the original BT client to be too much of a RAM hog, but have never encountered any issues with Azureus. I don't think I'm quite at your 1.2 TB yet Lacero, but downloading 175 GB (and then uploading them more than once over!) of Doctor Who videos definitely helps. ;)

Gotta love torrents! :cool:
 
I noticed when downloading that after a couple of hours or so the download speed slowly slows down and eventually becomes zero.... After quiting and restarting transmission, it is back up to its speed again (to drop later again). Upload is always solid 20kb/s.

Any ideas why that is happening?
 
MarkCollette said:
It says on the Azureus website that you need Java 1.5, which, on OS X, means that you need OS X 10.4.x. Is there some way to use Azureus on OS X 10.3.9?
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Yes - Azureus works fine on 10.3.9 for me. Not sure which version I'm running though (at work right now).
 
I've never had a problem with Azureus so I don't think I will be switching for good, but I will definately give it a try. Just thought I should chime in as one more happy Azureus user, give both applications a try and decide for yourself though :D
 
I used to find Azureus ok, but have now been forced to install a new version, and it is fighting with my AirPort wireless thingy, which connects me to my broadband.

I've tried telling the AirPort to use Port 6881 through the AirPort Admin Utility, but still get NAT errors on Azureus. And no green faces.

Apparently this is a common problem - there are hundreds of posts about it on Google.
 
Hoef said:
I noticed when downloading that after a couple of hours or so the download speed slowly slows down and eventually becomes zero.... After quiting and restarting transmission, it is back up to its speed again (to drop later again). Upload is always solid 20kb/s.

Any ideas why that is happening?
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because there is probably only 1 seeder. And as you know that seed needs to give out all the pieces to every leacher, including you. In turn you will get the piece you need next, and as time goes by more and more people have the pieces you are missing and you can take from them as well.

But until someone has 100% of the file and is a seeder, you may drop to 0k/sec because the only person with the piece(s) you need arent uploading to you at that moment.

Stopping and starting will give you a boost, if you give enough time inbetween, because while you were away more peeple got the parts you are missing.

make sense?
 
On my PC I use BitTornado, and with a little work you can get it to build on OS X, like I did finally... at like 2 AM I finally had it working...

To get it working you gotta have and do this:

1. Install the XCode Tools.

2. Get the BitTornado source from its site (CVS or stable doesn't matter)

3. Extract the DL'd source issuing the following command in a Terminal.app session:

sudo python setup.py install

4. Once that's done, navigate to /Developer/Applications/Tools/MacPython2.3/BuildApplet. <-- It may vary, being that I wrote that from memory.

5. Find your BitTornado source directory and choose the file "btdownloadgui.py". There you have it. You've just built BitTornado on Mac OS X. The only problem is that the Python lib isn't statically linked, so it'll only work on the machine it's built on.

If you know what you're doing, like me, you can even make a custom icon.

GOOD LUCK!! ^_^
 
Shiggy, there is no way I am going to try your suggestion, though thank you for posting it for more techie people.

My idea of a computer is something like a fridge: you put food in, you close it; later you open it, the food's cold, you take it out, you eat it, you don't get sick. This is about the level of complexity I like to handle with a machine!

I know, alas, that if I start trying to deal with anything with a name like X Code, I'm going to end up as a poor damned creature shrieking from the hell of the Northbridge.
 
Mala said:
Shiggy, there is no way I am going to try your suggestion, though thank you for posting it for more techie people.

My idea of a computer is something like a fridge: you put food in, you close it; later you open it, the food's cold, you take it out, you eat it, you don't get sick. This is about the level of complexity I like to handle with a machine!

I know, alas, that if I start trying to deal with anything with a name like X Code, I'm going to end up as a poor damned creature shrieking from the hell of the Northbridge.
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Heh.I didn't actually use XCode itself to do what I did... The XCode Tools include more than XCode itself.

Anyone here know how to make the Python library self-contained in the application package so that BitTornado can easier be shared with others? I think it could use an updated wxPython too. Please e-mail me.
 
Azureus

First of all greetings to all since it's my first post. As a recently PC user, I just *thumb up* for Azureus. Fast, reliable, great speeds and fully customizable. Never had a problem using it in my 1.43G MacMini. Although I can't find a torrent site for macs... :(

Cheers!
 
Yup, another Azureus memory hog complaint here. I usually restart my PB (see sig) after I've finished downloading.

I'll definitely give this a go.
 
This is a solution I found, and it's what worked for me.

Apparently the IP address in the AirPort Admin Utility has to be this:

10.0.1.2

Once I set it to this, then ran Azureus's configuration wizard and tested the port, it was fine. Green smileys wherever I go.

So here's exactly what you have to do, for Mac users with AirPort routers:

1) Go to AirPort Admin Utility/ Configure/ Port Mapping. Click Add. Enter whatever ports you want to use (6881 to 6889 are apparently usual, though others here recommend various numbers you might like to try) - in both Public and Private fields, and in the Private IP Address put 10.0.1.2

Tell the utility to update the AirPort, and it will do so and restart it.

Now, if you have a firewall running, go to System Preferences (on the blue Apple logo in the top left corner of your screen) and go to Sharing. Click Firewall, then Add, and enter the same port number/s you've put in your AirPort Admin Utility. Check this to allow traffic through.

Finally, boot up Azureus and run the Configuration Wizard (or just add the port number under Preferences, under the Azureus menu item).
 
Sdashiki said:
because there is probably only 1 seeder. And as you know that seed needs to give out all the pieces to every leacher, including you. In turn you will get the piece you need next, and as time goes by more and more people have the pieces you are missing and you can take from them as well.

But until someone has 100% of the file and is a seeder, you may drop to 0k/sec because the only person with the piece(s) you need arent uploading to you at that moment.

Stopping and starting will give you a boost, if you give enough time inbetween, because while you were away more peeple got the parts you are missing.

make sense?
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Sort of .... Though it would make sense if the whole world would start downloading the same file around the same time. I am experiencing it with files that maybe weeks old and would expect the whole file to be seeded
 
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