Transmission shifts into 1st gear

Still no DHT makes it often useless - no connection possible. At the same time Azureus can get the torrent without problem thank's DHT.

does one still get painfully slow ddownload speeds compared to o azureus?

Is Transmission still on most torrenters' user agent block list? It's always impressed me as a nice app, but if it's being blocked from its sole purpose, it can't by definition be useful.

Hmm... call me an old fuddy-duddy, but I just can't switch from Usenet to Bitorrent.

Why should I wait several hours to several days to pull something from Bitorrent, when I can get on Usenet at the speed of whatever my connection is?

Who wants to race me on pulling down, oh, some Blu-ray movie at around 40GB in size?

Seems to me that Bitorrent is strictly for folks w/ too much time on their hands...

Still no IPv6 support...

http://www.transmissionbt.com/trac/ticket/252

I've recently switched from Windows to Mac and I really find all of the torrent programs to be a bit lacking. I used ABC or mainly BitComet in my PC days. I liked being able to select which files in a folder I wanted, instead of the torrent automatically starting and getting a bunch of things I didn't want in 0.01% before I can open the inspector to stop them. Maybe I haven't found the proper menu items yet to turn on inspector by default before downloading?

But when you only want a couple of tracks or videos from someone, it's a pain to go through 30 or 40...

I also have never been able to close Transmission without a force quit or a beach ball for a super long time. Maybe this is more stable? I'm reluctant, though...

Transmission is NOT FULLY leopard compatible. The bug in where you double click a torrent in the window and it doesn't pop the inspector is STILL present. It is very annoying to have to cmd+i or click the inspector buttons.

The constant barrage of untested shitty releases x.9.x has lead to Transmission being banned AGAIN in private trackers.

The new look is horrible and confusing. The inspectors buttons graphics are much worse than text. The removal of text below default is a bad move. People dont know what those icons mean. But luckily OS X allows us to change that.

Other than that, Azureus, Utorrent Bittornado, completely blow away transmission in connecting to peers, for downloading and seeding. My ratio really suffers with Transmission.

There is also no DHT support which is VERY important since a lot of torrents have dead trackers.

I really would love to like Transmission, but after several months of using it, I changed back to Azureus.
While Transmission connects to 20-30 of 50 available sources and needs 12-15 hours for e.g. a 200MB file, Azureus connects to 500 of 2000 sources and downloads the same file in 30 minutes.
Stuff like the incredible stupid 0.95 release is just the cherry on the cake.

HUZZZAAH! WebUI that isn't Azureus! Now I can torrent from the iPhone in the McDonald's bathroom!

As far as I know Transmission does not have a ipfiletr plugin similar to that present in Azureus (safepeer).

Peergaurdian does not play nice on Leopard.

As long as transmission does not provide ipfilter plugin, it is useless for me.

Azureus is the best option if one wants to remain safe from the anti-p2p nutters while bit-torrenting. ;)