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ulsanchris · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess

what is a good torrent program for a mac?

Sleepy in Seoul · Posted: Sun Feb 18, 2007 3:07 am Post subject:

I use Azureus which is good, but a wee bit heavy on the CPU.

seoulman1 · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Location: Jamsil

transmission no contest

jhaelin · Joined: 30 Aug 2006

cabos

cabos

cabos

hands down.

it's not bittorrent.
it's based on gnutella but so much nicer,

a bonus is that japanese mac users use it as well, and since they have the bandwidth like korea, ocassionally you can get over 200kb.

if you want bittorent though, i also use tomato
basic, simple, no hassles.
here's a good link that describes most of the popular mac p2p's-
http://www.pure-mac.com/p2p.html

have fun and roam free...

while we still can.

Sincinnatislink · Joined: 30 Jan 2007 Location: Top secret.

Try bit tyrant.
I use transmission, but someone I trust likes it a lot and it's supposed to be really, really fast.

ulsanchris · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess

Ive tried some of the programs mentioned but i don't get very good download speeds. not like when I used utorrent on my pc.

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

Install Windows XP and use Utorrent Razz

europe2seoul · Joined: 12 Sep 2005 Location: Seoul, Korea

Just get original bittorrent client. Works fine. Dunno why would you use others.

seoulman1 · Joined: 02 Feb 2007 Location: Jamsil

if you use cabos how do you find the japanese users?

Wrench · Joined: 07 Apr 2005

skconqueror · Joined: 31 Jul 2005

ulsanchris · Joined: 19 Jun 2003 Location: take a wild guess

i tried a lot of what everybody suggested but all seemed to go slow. i think my internet has slowed down lately. maybe when the speed seems to pick up i will worry about getting a torrent program.

Slightly Lit · Joined: 18 Oct 2006

I use transmission, which is pretty basic but decent. It still lacks some features of my old pc based torrent client, but I havent found a better client yet for the mac.

As far as speed goes, I was getting really slow torrent speeds for the first week I had my connection. I fixed this by setting my torrent clients incoming port to a non standard port # (above 50 000) and set up port forwarding on my router. Since then my speeds went from an average of about 20k/s to about 150k/s-300k/s or better depending on the torrent.

hope this helps.

jhaelin · Joined: 30 Aug 2006

answer to two comments...

1) when using cabos you can go to preferences and select the language preference for your search results, pick japanese if you want to find japanese files.

the obvious problem here is that you have to be able to read japanese to make sense of the files.
fortunately many japanese users also include english titles alongside the japanese, but usually only for very popular titles, e.g. hollywood blockbusters, etc.

so if you're looking for some obscure movie or file this won't help. but if you want to download a recent major release, do a search with the title in english and scroll down untill you see one with japanese characters as well. you get dramatically higher download rates.

2)regarding the comment about the download speed of 200 kb being laughable..... well based on my experience with bittorents and other p2p's while in korea, i haven't consistenctly been able to get rates higher than that.

sure when i catch a torrent that recently came out and have lots of seeds, i can occassionally get upto 600kb/sec, but in my experience this has been rare.
i don't think it's my bandwdith, because if i download from a single source that also has broadband than i can easily get into the mb range.
however with the p2p's and using a mac, i found that my download rate is going to be limited by the upload rates of the other users. since i share with mostly us-based users rates tend to hover around 100kb average per file.

the good thing though is that i can simultaneously download 8-10 files at that rate. so overall i'm downloading mb/sec but not for each file.

if you're getting much higher rates from a mac, while in korea, and downloading from us-based p2p's, please share what you know.

AbbeFaria · Joined: 17 May 2005 Location: Gangnam

Since it's here, I thought I'd ask...I'm having trouble downloading torrents on my new Macbook. It starts up just fine, but soon all the seeds dry up and I'm left with one seed in one peer and a download that's going to take over a month. It's happened with torrents from different websites, all that are healthy before I download.

I use the same software on my Mac Mini and have never had this problem. Some of you talking about downloads speeds, once or twice I've gone over 900 mb/s. This on the mini. I wasn't even able to download one ep of American idle on the Macbook. It stalled about halfway through.

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