Comments on: A decent torrent client for OS X

By: patrice

patrice — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:13:21 +0000

Despite being a bit dated to some extent, your article helped me to reasonably decide to use uTorrent rather than Transmission, which is what I’d been using for quite a long time. As for Azureus, I never found it to deliver any speed benefits over Transmission, so I dropped Azureus after just a few weeks. Anyway, thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

By: Rickard

Rickard — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 21:36:30 +0000

Cool, thanks. I’ll probably keep an eye out on the net rather than give them my e-mail address though.

By: Cory

Cory — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 19:06:22 +0000

Here is some good news, µTorrent for Mac is now formally acknowledged, and you can sign up to receive an email when it is released.

Visit mac.utorrent.com to sign up for the mailing list.

By: TRUE

TRUE — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:44:09 +0000

What’s also wanted is a client that doesn’t “deliver” content, or seek connections for no (apparent) reason.

Azureus(/Vuze) is a major violator here. Frankly it is difficult to confirm that there’s not something odd/dangerous going on with this client.

It initiates connections to other machines even when no torrent files are loaded. And it hi-jacks the /mach_kernel file to initiate connections.

I’ll be investigating the alternatives — even at the risk of losing some speed or features, it will be worth it to have something more honest.

By: dunson

dunson — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 23:54:33 +0000

Great review, even though I was looking for a decent OS X client on Google… I’ve tried pretty much all of them and agree with all of your major points. I’d love to see Transmission come out with a release that can seed better. I once found on their forum that it was something due to a change in Leopard, but I can’t find it again now (something about a change in the protocol Leopard communicates with the modem). If you thought the speed was bad then, try uploading a torrent, its nearly impossible to connect to anyone.

So for now I’m stuck with uTorrent running in CrossOver, which is a way bigger resource hog than Azureus, but I can’t stand their slick java feel and I haven’t played around in it much in classic mode, which I just found out was possible.

Hopefully uTorrent gets ported soon…