TUAW reader mailbag: 10.4.2 BitTorrent speed boost

TUAW reader KissTheRing writes:

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Ever since I got the 10.4.2 my bittorrent downloads have had much better performance, up and down. I've always gotten better torrent download speeds from my windows machine but not anymore. Could Apple be trying to fix the inability of iTunes to download podcasts that are distributed via torrents?

Well, we can hope.

How fast third party programs can perform uploads and downloads doesn't really tell us much about what Apple is planning, though. 10.2.4 included a number of networking fixes, and several of them could affect BitTorrent performance depending on your connection. In particular, the HTTP and HTTPS enhancements may have benefited the BitTorrent Tracker. These upgrades benefit all applications using these protocols, however, not just BitTorrent. In fact, they were patched to improve iDisk performance.

Has anyone else noticed a significant BitTorrent boost with 10.4.2?

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cindster

can someone PLEASE tell me where to download anime using bittorrent on a mac? i just switched from PC to imac and im considering switching back if i cant download my ANIME....!!! thanks

September 11 2005 at 8:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Penginkun

No speedup here. If anything, it seems a lot slower than before.

July 15 2005 at 9:31 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben Liong

I hate to admit it, but there are times when working on a Windows machine somehow feels faster, even though Mac OS X always feels better to use. The bittorrent speed boost is there because Apple optimized the network code of the OS to make it "even better". Now we're on the same page with Windows on that one. I was excited to see TUAW post on reports that Intel Macs are FAST. The two years wait for intel Mac just become unbearable. In Gilmore gang episode of Gnomdex, the gang were talking about podcasts being one of the few real legitimate use of BT, so there really should be a P2P solution of potcast in itunes. What's the hold up, Steve?

July 14 2005 at 11:16 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Taeun

I hit 600kb/s down when I download anime via torrent files. BT has always been good to me even before 10.4.2. BTW, there's a typo in your post. You put 10.2.4 on accident.

July 14 2005 at 2:49 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ben

Since upgrading to 10.4.2 my BitTorrent client (BitTorrent for OS X) has set a new all time speed record of 175kb/s, which I thought was pretty spritely, and I have also noticed it being much faster than what it was before.. can't complain ;) But, isn't everything working faster? My app's open faster, and there is less of the spinny wheel.

July 14 2005 at 1:20 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Callum Alden

No. You're crazy.

July 14 2005 at 1:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Drew

I'm not a big BitTorrent user, but 10.4.2 has fixed the problems with Tivo Desktop 1.9.1. Check out this thread at Tivo Community: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=249083

July 14 2005 at 1:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply