Torrents!? lord help

[shu82]

VLC is a duh.

If you are coming from XP as I was. I used Azureus on both sides, and yes utorrent is the best. On this side Azureus is the only game in town unless you like oversimplified programs that have become ever too prevalent lately in OSX (Cough..Transmission...Tomatotorrent....Cough).

Also torrent programs are slow in osx. I hate to be like that, but I used to keep a P3 lappy around just for utorrent. Now my Macs have become powerful enough to outperform the p3. But I would still recommend utorrent even in parallels.

 

[vicious7]

Who is your ISP and why do they have software installed on your computer? I would recommend switching ISPs if possible... they shouldn't have anything but a passive relationship with your computer.

They don't. But I did get a pop-up about traffic something. Maybe I'm just paranoid. I didn't get any pop-ups when I first ran Azureus

 

[Catgofire]

They don't. But I did get a pop-up about traffic something. Maybe I'm just paranoid. I didn't get any pop-ups when I first ran Azureus

They've got something on there if you're getting pop-ups from them...? [edit: oh, unless it wasn't from them.]


Oh, and something I just realized: Transmission gets in the way of Transmit (ftp client) if you're using Quicksilver =P. What a nuisance.

 

[ataylora]

BitTorrent

 

[zblaxberg]

I use a program called Azureus - just download your Torrent file and drop in download area and hey presto!

download here: http://azureus.sourceforge.net/



regards Simon

I use this too, works great!

 

[Chris F]

Who is your ISP and why do they have software installed on your computer? I would recommend switching ISPs if possible... they shouldn't have anything but a passive relationship with your computer.

They probably don't have anything installed on his machine. Azureus keeps a database of ISPs known to use traffic shaping and if it matches your host/ip to the database it asks you if you would like to use encryption.

The traffic shaping itself is done at the router or head end level and has no user interaction.