Torrent Program for Mac

randombar

Hi Lads,
Any recommendations for a torrent program for the mac?
Mu Torrent is pretty good for the PC.
Thanks
Gary

eZe^

Transmission, hands down my favourite torrent client.

oneofakind32

eZe^ wrote: »

Transmission, hands down my favourite torrent client.

+1, Transmission all the way

forbairt

I was always a fan of Azureus on the PC ... hence I picked that when I moved to the mac. No complaints.

Though the Vuze aspect of it can be annoying at times ... but nice at others if you're looking for a distraction.

randombar

Cool, downloaded that there, any tips or tweaks you can recommend for it or will I just work away?
Nice one
Gary

forbairt

may be good to turn transport encryption on

randombar

How do I do that then?? Class program by de way lads!

forbairt

GaryCocs wrote: »

How do I do that then?? Class program by de way lads!

tried the help file / documentation ?

breadbin

great page here to get you started

http://www.corewerkz.com/2008/03/15/torrents-a-complete-mac-tutorial-featuring-transmission/

randombar

Cool, and is "The unarchiver" the best unarchiver for the mac?

J-blk

GaryCocs wrote: »

Cool, and is "The unarchiver" the best unarchiver for the mac?

It's the best I've found for handling multi-par RAR files, which I'd imagine you'll have to deal with if extracting torrent downloads. It's kinda glitchy when you add a few files to un-archive all at once, but otherwise it works great.

chrislad

Been using Transmission since I switched to OS X about 2 years ago. Not a bother with it.

Sajan

I have tried absolutely everyhting over the lasy few days to sort out my closed port.. And it just remains closed. I've forwarded ports. Set up static Ip address. It just remains closed. Hugely frustrating.

ZENER

Sajan wrote: »

I have tried absolutely everyhting over the lasy few days to sort out my closed port.. And it just remains closed. I've forwarded ports. Set up static Ip address. It just remains closed. Hugely frustrating.

Eh . . ok ?! I think we might need some more details. What program are you using - what port - what router - what ISP.

ZEN

luckat

I opened a closed port by changing it from:

Portnumber>10.0.1.201>portnumber

to

Portnumber>10.0.1.2>portnumber

if that's any help.

I'm still having problems (see separate thread), but that kind of worked.

Sajan

Hey.. I'm using Transmission.. With a netopia wireles router with Eircom ISP. I am using port 59152.. I think, and I can't be sure if this that this has happened since the last security update (005). But then again it might be the updated version of transmission. It's strange. I am getting speeds of roughly around 20-30 kbs but I downloaded the new version of NeoOffice through torrents and got 300-350 Kbs. Maybe it is nothing..

J-blk

Sajan wrote: »

I am getting speeds of roughly around 20-30 kbs but I downloaded the new version of NeoOffice through torrents and got 300-350 Kbs. Maybe it is nothing..

It depends on how well seeded the torrent is and how many leechers on it. You could be downloading two files from the same tracker with very different speeds - if you were getting speeds close to your maximum capacity with even one torrent (in this case NeoOffice), then you don't have port forwarding issues.

thecommander

the website that it uses to check the ports is down.

luckat

See the thread Port Mapping with Airport (or some such) above this.

breadbin

J-blk wrote: »

It depends on how well seeded the torrent is and how many leechers on it. You could be downloading two files from the same tracker with very different speeds - if you were getting speeds close to your maximum capacity with even one torrent (in this case NeoOffice), then you don't have port forwarding issues.

it took me a while to realise this too, more seeders the better

mike dee

Transmission. Used since I switched to mac. brilliant:D.

J-blk

uTorrent for Mac OS X finally seems to be getting closer to release:

http://digg.com/apple/uTorrent_s_Mac_Client_Leaked

Seems like Transmission may have some serious competition soon. I still think Transmission is a great BT client though.