best bit torrent client for mac?

**Qion** · August 7th, 2007, 08:49 AM

Originally Posted by PGTips

Transmission is an awesome application. It's much lighter weight than Azureus and does all that I need it to do. In fact, Azureus seems to slow down my computer when using it and has a much higher network usage. I notice it, because I play networked games when downloading stuff and there is no performance hit with Transmission.

BitTorrent isn't just used for trading warez -.-, Blizzard hosts the Warcraft Client installer and patches via Bittorrent. I don't like the Blizzard downloader since I can't control the bandwidth it sucks up. But if I use a torrent client, I can better manage my bandwidth.

Transmission works for me in about 95% of all cases. The only time that I switch over to the jug of lard called Azureus is when I need a specific file from a very large download.

**ergo proxy** · August 7th, 2007, 09:34 AM

Long time Azureus user, I think it's ok, does what it's suppose to do.
I like some of the extra features but I agree that it doesn't feel like a
native Mac app. I installed Transmission ( I think I have the older version)
but never really used it much, so I can't say if it's better than Azureus.

**icemanjc** · August 7th, 2007, 09:35 AM

I use a program called Acquisition, that does p2p and torrents.
Otherwise, I use Bittorrent.

**fryke** · August 7th, 2007, 10:37 AM

newest version of transmission has partial-downloads (single files from multifile-torrents) support. byebye azureus.

**Mikuro** · August 7th, 2007, 10:44 AM

It depends on what you need. You can't beat Azureus on features, but it's big and bloated. Transmission is very lean, but some trackers ban it because older versions were "greedy". The official client is decent, but I stopped using it after version 4.0 because it started making unexplained connections to unknown addresses. I still don't know why (if you do, please enlighten me!), but I didn't like that it was in constant communication with something even when no torrents were loaded.

Tomato Torrent is a solid client, but its interface is a little funky. That's not altogether bad, just unusual.

I use Azureus and Transmission, myself. When I can get away with it and I don't need advanced features (which is most of the time), I use Transmission.

Both Azureus and Transmission support UPnP, which is a feature of most modern routers that lets software auto-configure the firewall. This is a great feature for anyone who hates wrestling with their router, or anyone who likes things that Just Work. AFAIK these are the only two Mac clients that support UPnP, but I haven't used many others in a while, so I could be wrong at this point.

Originally Posted by fryke

newest version of transmission has partial-downloads (single files from multifile-torrents) support. byebye azureus.

Woo-hoo!