torrent client for intel?

[Eidorian]

That is my experience as well. Honestly, I don't really understand the instability issues people report with Intel machines. 2.5.0.4 is as stable as they come. I'm going to assume some cross-over with previous versions.

As for the footprint, I find the increase a wash when compared to the capabilities and control AZ provides. Another 2% on the system is an issue when you need to block bad clients, adjust seed protocol, etc.? C'mon.

If you just want to leech and seed, use Transmission or any other light-weight client; if you actually use and initiate torrents frequently, you are crippled without the capabilities of Azureus.

I find the memory footprint a little lower in 2.5.0.2 and 2.5.0.4. I'm looking for the capabilities of Azureus and it's more then enough for the RAM it uses. It'll be my main torrent client until Transmission gets DHT (someday according to the development track) and a few more tweaks with peer connections (MAKE IT MANUAL TOO).

i don't do much torrenting and i was wondering if someone could explain what a private torrent/tracker?

Some torrent trackers ban certain torrent clients. I believe that Bits on Wheels (OS X) and BitComet (Windows) are the more common ones.

 

[swingerofbirch]

I have been using Azureus for a few months, and like it just fine. [removed]

The speed is not great, but maybe that's how torrents are? It's always on the yellow slanted smiley face--my download speed is usually about 5 k/sec...has spurts of up to 20 k/sec.

I have used the configuration wizard (set on beginner mode)--the one part I am confused by is the "NAT / Server Port" screen.

The number in there is 57506, and then it has an option to test it. The result always comes back saying it timed out.

It says above that to "get the best out of Azureus, it's highly recommended to be fully accessible from the Internet"--so I am guessing from this test, that I am not?

What should I change here? And would it help with DL speeds?

 

[tjcampbell]

Just downloaded Transmission. Thanks for posting the link. Cheers, T

 

[latchy]

Speaking of Demonoid. (edit - what the hell... I'm confusing threads up. I've looked back and see no mention of demonoid, yet I could've sworn I just read it. Apologies for mixup. I hope my request can still go here as it still relates). I've been patiently waiting for Friday to come around so I can use the open registration. To be (ahem) delight, they've announced that registrations are delayed for the moment and aren't confirming when the next day.

Anybody kinda enough to have a spare invite code they can PM me?

(I hope this sort of message is allowed. Delete it if it's not and accept my apologies. I registered a few months ago to ask advice on printer troubles but my message was swallowed before it would post. Frustrating. I'm only mentioning that incase anyone's thinking I'm registering purely to do ask for an invite code). Thanks.

 

[pengu]

Transmission is pretty sucky IMO, no UDP tracker support in this day and age?

Azureus. Industry standard bit torrent client. So cutting edge it bleeds.

Well apparently windows is the "industry standard" for general computing but we dont really follow that trend either.

i just downloaded azerus, and as with every other half-baked app that is ported from linux or windows, i deleted it within 2 1/2 minutes.

you can keep your bleeding azerus, i'll stick with Transmission. it JUST WORKS and doesnt look like something a gnome-nerd vomited up at breakfast.

 

[Nuks]

I had Transmission, but I was downloading a 20 gig file, and at 18 gigs it crashed, and when I re-opened it, I couldn't continue the file, it started to overwrite it.

I love Azureus, it's never crashed and you can individually select files (great for getting one song off an album and stuff.)

 

[joekix]

transmission works great for me.

 

[Jazzman25]

transmission works great for me.

Same here. Although never tried a 20GB file. ISPs in this country (Belgium) allow only you 10GB a month (unless you take a high end pacakge)

 

[suneohair]

Transmission

Transmission gives me 300KB/s+ on good torrents. I use the .7

Azureus is crap and buggy for me. I like complicated things but when I am just pulling torrents from the general search engines, I don't need all that other junk.

Forward port, DL rate, UL rate. Done. No need to make it complicated and have a trillion options. As long as I can pull 300+ on good torrents I am fine.

Transmission.

 

[arcobb]

My favorite client is an oldie but works great and I love the graphical representation it has that shows what is going on. I find it great to explain to friends what the heck a torrent file is. It's not intel native, but good torrent files download and will max out my bandwidth, which is about all I care about.

It's called (drum roll please)

Bits on Wheels

It's worth checking out in my opinion. I kinda like that it's older and it works because I'm tired of being an update addict for the newest versions of programs. I just want something that works well for me.

P.S. The other client I have on my computer, used and like is Transmission.

 

[GraceMolloy]

ditto on xtorrent, although I'm not sure what i"m gonna do when it goes out of beta and they want $$$ for it.

I know what I'm gonna do ...

charging for a torrent client ... ya right ...


but ya I like Xtorrent.

 

[iW00t]

Well apparently windows is the "industry standard" for general computing but we dont really follow that trend either.

i just downloaded azerus, and as with every other half-baked app that is ported from linux or windows, i deleted it within 2 1/2 minutes.

you can keep your bleeding azerus, i'll stick with Transmission. it JUST WORKS and doesnt look like something a gnome-nerd vomited up at breakfast.

That's your choice. For the trackers I use Transmission is a total waste of time and I'll stick with Azureus thanks.

Besides I have better things to do than to stare at one application all day long and obsess over the design decisions that gone into it. So what if it looks like a ported application, I don't even have to see it!

Download my torrent into a monitored folder, when the torrent is downloaded the file mysteriously appears in the move completion folder. If that is not simple enough I don't know what to say.

OS X is not all about fancy pixies and beautiful applications, think about the clunky console based UNIXY tools that make the whole system tick.

 

[EvryDayImShufln]

Azureus used to be very buggy but now they updated it and it hasn't crashed since.

By the way, a private torrent tracker is one in which you cannot just go and download what you please. You need to (usually) get an invite to even be allowed downloading, then you need to keep up a good download/upload ratio.

The theory here is that if everybody keeps a ratio of 1, there will always be somebody to download files off, and download speeds will be very high. If you don't keep this download/upload ratio, you will simply be banned. I think private trackers are the best out there, and they are definitely the fastest to download from.

Demonoid is probably the best tracker out there, unfortunately it is private and I've never actually been able to use it

 

[phillipjfry]

Tried and true, on my PC I love Bittornado, simple, fast, and it's just...beautiful
I wonder if there is a bittornado client for OSX (at work, I can't even google anything related to torrent without it getting filtered )

 

[jhande]

I'm perfectly happy with Azureus as well. Yeah the interface is kinda sucky, but so what? Hide it, and let it dot its job.

Selective torrents are great, speeds as well. Never had anything other than a Green Smiley, even with a slightly complicated double firewall setup (controlled port-forwarding is your friend).

And it doesn't crash.... the latest version, that is.

 

[pengu]

So what? I care that my applications are not something i have to hide away. and as for the other comments. transmission has crashed maybe once in 12 months. i get good speeds AND i dont need any stupid green smiley to tell me its working or how fast its going. the fact that it is working, and dl at 100+K is enough to tell me both.

 

[crazyworld]

what a brilliant thread, thanks!..

finally tried transmissiion, dead simpl, does same as tomato, jus what i want, good speeds.. [ 350mb files in 2hrs ].. wil try azurus when hav probs wiv this..

bye

ps. one more question.. whats the current status wiv bittorrents? used to b that not many peopl had been "done" for questionable downloading [unlike p2p], is it stil th case or is big brother a bit more clued up now?

 

[suneohair]

what a brilliant thread, thanks!..

finally tried transmissiion, dead simpl, does same as tomato, jus what i want, good speeds.. [ 350mb files in 2hrs ].. wil try azurus when hav probs wiv this..

bye

ps. one more question.. whats the current status wiv bittorrents? used to b that not many peopl had been "done" for questionable downloading [unlike p2p], is it stil th case or is big brother a bit more clued up now?

Good speeds? I can pull down 2GB files in 2hrs. What is your connection, you may need to port forward if you havent already.

 

[martintxo]

i agree. great thread. i just entered the beautiful world that is os x a couple months ago. on windows, i used utorrent. hands down the best torrent client out there. small footprint, AND you can selective download, and, one option not yet mentioned here, is that you can limit u/l and d/l per torrent, not just a global setting. comes in handy. ive tried many on the mac, and transmission is the one i stuck with. it is similar to utorrent in that it is very simple, except that it is missing those two options i mentioned. oh well. ill stick with transmission though. besides the lack of those options, it works great. as for utorrent, ill keep hoping that one day it will come out for os x....

 

[mojitochica]

i agree. great thread. i just entered the beautiful world that is os x a couple months ago. on windows, i used utorrent. hands down the best torrent client out there. small footprint, AND you can selective download, and, one option not yet mentioned here, is that you can limit u/l and d/l per torrent, not just a global setting. comes in handy. ive tried many on the mac, and transmission is the one i stuck with. it is similar to utorrent in that it is very simple, except that it is missing those two options i mentioned. oh well. ill stick with transmission though. besides the lack of those options, it works great. as for utorrent, ill keep hoping that one day it will come out for os x....

utorrent just got bought by someone; the boards at utorrents website are acting like it's the end of the world. In any case I doubt they will be developing for OS X anytime soon

 

[crazyworld]

"Good speeds? I can pull down 2GB files in 2hrs. What is your connection, you may need to port forward if you havent already."

port forward? eh? i think is pretty fast broadband, a least 2mb.. sometimes i get fast connection , runnin about 100kb/s, [hav had 600kb/s at home, think thats 8mb] but generally its about 20kb/s to 50kb/s . i jus thought it was a bit luck of the draw with torrent stuff? as i jus download while i work it doesnt really matter th speed..

so what i should do to make it go fast..? so do we need a "how to setup bit torrent" thread ?!

 

[chrisdazzo]

azureus works flawlessly, but transmission is definitely simpler. i would like to see selective file downloading on transmission, though.

on a side note, from OiNK, download speeds can reach 1 MB/s (megabyte!). that's what i've heard, anyways. i have 12 Mb comcast internet, so that could be why.

 

[shu82]

I really loved utorrent. Up until a few months ago I kept around an old p3 laptop around just for torrents. Transmission really peaved me off since you could not do anything but click on the torrent and start. Azureus really changed things. I used it on xp but still like utorrent better for that platform. But on a mac it truly is the best out there. Utorrent on XP is worlds better (faster) than any program out there for the mac (sorry). I use azureus now because it is painful to go home and boot up xp because that is all I do at work. I wonder how well would utorrent work on paralells or virtual pc??? Has anyone tried it?

 

[2fives]

I like Azureus for both Mac and PC. On my MPB the latest version of Azureus crashes like a friggen train wreck ever time I fire it up. I have to do a power down to get out of it. Use ver 2.5.0.0 and works fine.

I like the look of Azureus and it's loaded with features. To be honest I don't like to simple and not being able to download selective files.

 

[janey]

Azureus is best for the featureset, especially if you are on any private trackers.

Great, bring up another thread from the dead to reply.

Azureus is quite possibly the only torrent client for Mac OS X that works on many, many private trackers.

Every other client (with the possible exception of BitTornado or rtorrent) is banned on one or another...either preventing you from doing anything with the torrent, or going as far as to ban you for using it.