Looking for THE BEST torrent client for intel mac.
 

Hi all, I'm looking for a better torrent client for me to use daily.
I've used Transmission and Azureus but I
'm not happy with either.

Azureus is ugly, and just too big, but works very well.
Transmission is VERY limited, and has ratio problems with some trackers, but good lookign and simple to use.

I've had a look in versiontracker and macupdate but found no other UB clients there.

Anyone has an idea abt other clients who are UB?

Please limit responses to UB or Intel client as rosseta emulation is not suited for these type of applications.

Cheers to all

I don't know if it's UB yet, but I use Bits-on-Wheels which is by far the best mac client ever.

Not UB yet, and it doesnt look there's much work to get it working either.
PS: Nicholas the BOW developer has been busy, and since the software is not open source, nobody else can contribute which makes the project pretty much dead for the time being for any future plans of UB or anything.

What gives you that idea? You've had a bad experience with some PowerPC Bittorrent client running under Rosetta?
I have no experience with this but I would have thought that these sorts of apps would do extremely well under Rosetta since they are I/O limited, not CPU-limited.

I've been running my intel Mac since it was released in January and i have to say that rosetta applications slow down the system.
Wether CPU, IO, or whatever, everytime you run any rosetta application the computer and application itself go slower, and I'm running a full spec'ed Imac dual core with 2.0gb ram.

The nature of rosetta is to translate code into intel readable, so it is natural for this to happen.

Rosseta is not magical, and it does take it's toll on Intel macs, so you wouldnt like to have a rosseta application in the background while you're working, thats for sure.

I'm in no position to argue with your real world experience, but is not natural for an application that uses very little CPU power when run natively (on a PowerPC machine) to suddenly take a lot of CPU power when running under Rosetta. E.g. if a typical Bittorrent client takes 5% of the CPU (on average), then running under Rosetta, it might take 7% of the CPU. This shouldn't have a noticeable effect on your machine.

Yeah mate, i know what you mean, and i believe you're right.
but even if the system is not affected the application WILL run slower. and thats the nature of rosetta unfortunately.

Now, going back to the original discussion.
Any other UB apps or betas in development i might not be aware of?

cheers!

But the point is that it doesn't matter if your BT client runs slightly slower since all that matters is the speed of download and that is I/O limited.
(It's like worrying about the maximum highway speed of a car that will always be used in rush-hour traffic - it's not relevant.)
So why not just try one of the PPC clients and see how they work. I too recommend Bits on Wheels.

if there's no other option, I'd rather stick to Azureus.
Rosetta amulated apps, annoy me as they're quite slow :-(

With the latest slew of updates to Transmission, I'd suggest you check it out again. If you're happy with svn and compiling stuff (./compile && make for transmission) then I'd suggest getting the source and building it yourself.

Source has latest features such as Speed Limit Mode!

not sure if it would run under parallels or not, but check out utorrent

it is the best btorrent client i have run across and I think its only windows compatable.

I like how you can view every file of a bt download and choose not to download certain files. You can see imbedded files sometimes like trojans and other nasty things that sometimes get tossed in bit torrent files.

anyone try this yet?

I've tried bit torrent, it's simple but towards the end of downloads it starts to slow down until it stops, with 1-5% left to go!

thanks for the helpdul tips, but i think i'll better stick to versiontracker and macupdate for a new UB release of tomato or bitsonwheels.

utorrent on parallels? WHY?

I use Transmission when I have that rare use for Bit Torrent. I think it's by far the cleanest, simplest, and best-working Bit Torrent client out there. I'm curious as to why you didn't like it.

A lot of private trackers i use are banning Transmission, due to problem on the way it calculated ratios, and makes seeders dont get credited for their seeding time.

Also, Transmission doesnt have a lot of features that are needed for an advance/intermediate torrent user.

Can't assign different ratios according to different trackers is the one that comes to my minds, but i think everyone agrees that is pretty limited.

If you leech public trackers, Transmission is the way to go.
if you're active in the p2p community transmission is pretty much useless.

My position is that you'll just have to learn to tolerate Azureus. I've tried all the clients mentioned up thread and none matches the performance of Azureus on my Intel Mac.

I've found that if I limit myself to one or two active downloads Azureus has minimal impact on my system.

Ole, what is the reason for that? Any ideas?

My only guess is no one has the last bit of the file. The file I tried to download was a bit old, so i just used limewire. It was a lot quicker too.

Oh, I thought for a moment that it was a recurring problem, occurring with many files. Glad to hear that’s not the case.

I haven't tried it since, I go to limewire first as it is alot easier to find the files and start downloading

Azuerus works on your intel mac? I donwloaded the lastest version and it will not run on my macbook.

g'day aussiebuddha

Right, 'fraid I don't know the term UB, maybe you'd pop it in for us ignorami?

I am currently testing 8 p2p clients for various networks, Gnutella, Torrents etc so I'll bung you a list of what I've found and youse can trawl the net for 'em and see what you think, ok?

Limewire, Frostwire, aMule, Azureus, Tomato Torrent, xFactor, Aquisition, Cabos.

I found a few on www.versiontracker.com

Dunno if that helps or not