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    Bittorent on macs

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by poland, May 23, 2008.

  1. poland

    poland Notebook Enthusiast

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    Im in the process of buying a laptop for college and am a user of bittorent, and I need to know. Is there alot of compatible bittorent clients for the mac os, or would it be significantly harder to find a good one vs. windows
     
    poland, May 23, 2008
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  2. mikespit1

    mikespit1 Notebook Consultant NBR Reviewer

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    I use Azureus, but I'm still waiting for a mac port of uTorrent which has been in the works for some time.
     
    mikespit1, May 23, 2008
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  3. alynch75

    alynch75 Notebook Evangelist

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    Mac is a good way to go. There are just as many Bittorent clients for Mac and Windows. Get the MacBook Pro you will not regreat it. I wish I had gotten the MAC Book PRO instead of the dell xps m1330. anyway let me know how it works out for you. Also do a google and serach for bittorrent for mac and you will see loads of quality clients.
     
    alynch75, May 23, 2008
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  4. cdnalsi

    cdnalsi Food for the funky people

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    cdnalsi, May 23, 2008
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  5. nahiyan13

    nahiyan13 Notebook Evangelist

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    cdnaisi, I totally agree with you.Transmission IS the best bit torrent client in my opinion,it takes up very little system resource.
     
    nahiyan13, May 23, 2008
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  6. system_159

    system_159 Notebook Deity

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    Transmission is great.
    Opera is good.
    Tomato is alright.
    Azereus is sub-par.
     
    system_159, May 23, 2008
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  7. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    Does transmission support DHT yet? DHT is pretty much a must have nowadays, which is one of the reasons I'm using Azureus.
     
    Budding, May 23, 2008
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  8. poland

    poland Notebook Enthusiast

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    The MBP isnt in my budget, what im looking at is the white 13.3" mb 2.4ghz
     
    poland, May 23, 2008
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  9. Robgunn

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    I'm not sure on DHT yet, but they did add IP block-list. It is very nicely integrated and is very slick. Transmission is good, and getting better with each revision.
     
    Robgunn, May 23, 2008
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  10. nahiyan13

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    I don't think transmission supports DHT yet.
     
    nahiyan13, May 23, 2008
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  11. Robgunn

    Robgunn Notebook Evangelist

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    No, I don't think it does. However, I believe its being worked into the backend of transmission (based on KadC). Its just not high on the list.
     
    Robgunn, May 23, 2008
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  12. Sam

    Sam Notebook Virtuoso

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    Transmission, Azureus are the popular Mac BitTorrent clients. I'd like to remind everyone that NBR does not allow or support the use of BitTorrent and other P2P networks to illegally download files like movies and music!
     
    Sam, May 23, 2008
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  13. bigspin

    bigspin My Kind Of Place

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    I'm use Frostwire .It have bittorrent support + it's easy to use.
     
    bigspin, May 23, 2008
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  14. rajiput

    rajiput Notebook Enthusiast

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    Frostwire is good, but transmission is a a better independent application.
     
    rajiput, May 23, 2008
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  15. sulkorp

    sulkorp Notebook Deity

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    Other then the fact that ive been using azueus for years, thats another reason why I use it.

    Helps a lot if you have rogers as an isp, or anyone else that throttles.
     
    sulkorp, May 23, 2008
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  16. stealthsniper96

    stealthsniper96 What Was I Thinkin'?

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    Look at refurbs. I reccomend Transmission for torrents.
     
    stealthsniper96, May 23, 2008
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  17. ChivalricRonin

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    I trust Azureus on any platform. I strongly suggest picking an open source client. Transmission, when I used it in Linux, was a bit lacking. I /think/ Deluge has a Mac port?
     
    ChivalricRonin, May 24, 2008
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  18. sheldon77

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    i wouldnt say there are as many bittorrent clients for mac as there is for windows, but there are plenty of good ones out there. i originally went with transmission but after a while it was a bit lacking, so i switched to azureus which although is better has terribly annoying "dashboard" feature that i cant find how to turn off. also like another here im eagerly waiting a utorrent port.
     
    sheldon77, May 24, 2008
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  19. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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    I've been using BitRocket. Transmission has been inconsistent in its use for me, and Azureus hasn't been playing nice with my system for whatever reason (might be OS X 10.5.2). BitRocket has been as close to uTorrent as I've come across, though I very rarely use torrent applications.
     
    saturnotaku, May 24, 2008
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  20. system_159

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    But of course! I only use bit torrent for legal things like linux distributions and homemade... stuff.
    <_<
    >_>
    *runs away*
     
    system_159, May 24, 2008
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