Transmission - the open source, lightweight BitTorrent client that is the closest alternative to uTorrent that us Mac users can get - has just released version .90.New features added in this update include:
- Encryption support (finally!), with an option to ignore unencrypted peers
- The ability to ban peers that send too much bad data
- Reporting only downloaded and verified good data to the tracker
- Improved BitTorrent compliance and more
For OS X users, specific updates include:
A per-torrent action menu, optimizations to decrease memory usage, and general changes/updates to the interface to make managing files easier and to provide users with more options.
Note: Users upgrading from version .72 or earlier will lose any data from uncompleted downloads, so please beware and either move your torrents to another program or finish downloads before installing the upgrade.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
10-24-2007 @ 11:40AM
Pete said...
Might have to give it a go now but only if it can seed from two different drives (internal and external) at the same time.
Can anyone comment?
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10-24-2007 @ 11:52AM
Christina Warren said...
Pete, I know you could in version .82 -- I haven't tried that specifically with .90 (I haven't had a chance to do more than open it up and look at the new interface). I'll try to get confirmation for you.
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10-24-2007 @ 11:53AM
Waldorf said...
This should work fine.
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10-24-2007 @ 12:02PM
mikel egurra said...
i updated, not from .72, and had three crashes on the first hour. had to leave after that, but i'm not too happy with the upgrade.
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10-24-2007 @ 12:15PM
Dannel said...
I'm sorry to be the troll but...wow...comment #1 didn't even make a bit of sense. I'd actually like to see an example of a torrent client that isn't threaded or allows you to select a space on the visible filesystem.
Seriously wow, I'm going to go shake my head now. I know this isn't a helpful comment, but wow.
In any case, I kind of like that encryption is forced on by default. I don't see a reason people wouldn't encrypt their transfers to begin with.
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10-24-2007 @ 12:15PM
Kishen said...
can someone explain the encryption feature? Does it mean that snoopers can't tell what you're downloading?
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10-24-2007 @ 12:22PM
liam said...
on the first post,
you can with the previous version. i am seeding something that's actually on my network server, over wireless right now. so it is possible to do, you just have to change the setting in the preferences pane to ask where you want things to be saved. otherwise it saves in the folder the torrent file came from.
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10-24-2007 @ 12:23PM
Az vs Tm said...
I really like the interface and small footprint of Transmission, but I just can't get any speed out of it. I have a 6mb connection and I can get speeds over 350+ kB/s within 15 minutes of opening a well-seeded torrent with good swarm speed when using Azureus.
Transmission sits for hours at 35 kB/s before spiking up, if it does at all. It just won't connect to enough seeds and peers. What a waste.
I have all my settings fine tuned, all needed ports opened and a great ratio. Transmission is just slower and it's a shame.
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10-24-2007 @ 12:27PM
joe said...
this is GREAT news.
in the past month, Clearwire has been throttling my download speed pretty hard. 2 weeks ago downloaded Azureus/Vuze reluctantly so i could use encryption. Man, what a POS that is - just SO slow, even though my download speeds were back up to par.
Tonight i'll go upgrade to Transmission 0.9 and erase every bit of Azureus off my Mac.
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10-24-2007 @ 1:00PM
SalizarMarxx said...
yeah I have the same speed issue.
Even though I'm connected to 50+ hosts transmission refuses to connect to any more than 15 tops.
It has no problem opening out bound connections though, I can usually seed to 25+ people at a time, even with a 50k cap.
I downloaded Az, this morning and within minutes I had increased my speed 3 fold from the same torrent...
Until transmission can fix this stuff its just not worth it...
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10-24-2007 @ 1:25PM
Scott said...
I've been using Transmission .82 and had the same problem with slow downloads. Last night I played around with .90 and was surprised at how much faster the download speed was. I don't know if it has anything to do with connecting to encrypted torrents, but I was getting 3x the transfer rate than I was previously.
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10-24-2007 @ 1:27PM
flec65 said...
Ditto with the speed issue here. I absolutely love the UI and features of Transmission and give it a new chance at every 0.X release but I kept getting back to Azureus for its speed. With the same settings and torrents, Transmission never take off and always slow down to a crawl compared to Azureus.Too bad...
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10-24-2007 @ 1:45PM
Stephen Lang said...
Great, this is just in time for downloading Leopard before Friday! ;-)
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10-24-2007 @ 1:59PM
Pete said...
@ Dannel #5
Maybe I should have worded my question differently.
I know Transmission can theoretically do it but how does it perform in real life?
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10-24-2007 @ 2:24PM
Dylan said...
I love the simplicity of this program. It is definitely my favorite torrent program on the mac. It seems to download fast enough for me, but i'm not sure if maybe i'm missing out on some speed. hmm.
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10-24-2007 @ 3:52PM
Peter said...
is anyone else haveing trouble with the system after upgrading? It looks like Transmission is making the computer go much slower!
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10-24-2007 @ 5:54PM
mim said...
Try out "deluge". It can be obtained using the MacPorts. It supports encryption and it's like uTorrent but for Linux. :)
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10-24-2007 @ 6:35PM
Nick said...
Same speed issue as the other folks here. Part of the reason I like torrent so much is because you can get new files quickly. What's the point in using Transmission if it will take me twice as long to download? I'll keep using Azureus, thanks.
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10-24-2007 @ 7:59PM
rp said...
Im not sure why anyone would suggest that Az is speedy. Perhaps it is speedier than Transmission, but when you compare snails to slugs there isn't going to be much of a difference.
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10-25-2007 @ 10:40AM
guerro said...
It should read, "We mac users..." not, "Us mac users...." Think about how it would sound if you left out "mac users". Would you say it is the best torrent client US can get? Or the best WE can get ? Just trying to help.
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