Torrent Download

[Me1000]

will it keep downloading if my macbook is in sleep mode?

cheers

There is no bit torrent client that will run while your computer is sleeping. This is because network connections are closed when you put a machine to sleep.
Dont believe me?

Open your browser, put your machine to sleep, wake it up, and quickly reload the page. If you are on wifi you will probably get a, you are not connected to the internet error. No idea if you have a ethernet cable plugged in though.

 

[ribbonthecat]

Perhaps a foolish question, but I have never figured out how to find or download torrents. Any advice?

 

[Octobot]

Perhaps a foolish question, but I have never figured out how to find or download torrents. Any advice?

Have you tried to google "torrents" yet.. that'll get you started.

The torrent sites are called "trackers", listing and tracking all the torrents floating around. Many are public trackers, free for anyone to pop by and download stuff; Though the better ones are the private trackers which you need to work a little harder to get into.

 

[Fiveos22]

how safe are torrents? i used tomato torrent on the ibook and got a few cds and office 2004 but it is now dead (the ibook). im trying to baby my macbook and keep it free from anything that would render its performance so again i ask...how safe do you guys think torrents are???

I had totally forgotten about Tomato Torrent. I was very much a fan of that one a while back, because of how easy it was to control the torrent traffic you were dealing with. Now, that was at least three or four years ago. I think most torrent programs, including the official Bit Torrent program are probably as easy to use.

I remember fighting the original OSX BitTorrent program to get it to do what I wanted...thankfully I found Tomato Torrent.

/waxing romantic

 

[Phish311]

R.I.P. Oink

 

[Octobot]

R.I.P. Oink

Indeed..
R.I.P. Demonoid too

 

[reemrevnivek]

Transmission Upload

I don't know if I'm beating a dead horse, but I agree...transmission is great.
However, I've got a question.
I'm a college student, and I'm happily on my new, ultra-fast school network... How do I get the info I need to upload torrents? I don't know the router setup at all. Any suggestions?

 

[Slip]

Yeah Transmission's pretty good but occasionally when you have a torrent running at over about 20kb/s it really slows down Safari, even opening a google search takes agesssss. I know that you can put into Turtle Mode or w/e it is but its just annoying.
Is this just me?

 

[heatmiser]

Since getting my iBook, I've only tried Transmission. I wish it had the option to select which files I wanted to dl before the torrent started. You can do it manually, yes, but in uTorrent, you could set the confirmation box to come up automatically, so you could check things off before giving the torrent the go-ahead. I wonder if there are any lightweight clients that do this on OS X.

In general, that's the program I miss the most from XP. There doesn't seem to be a real equivalent to it on OS X.