Transmission - 1.76

There was a time (1.2-ish, 1.3-ish) where Transmission seemed to be going through a rough time. I'm not sure if it was just a perfect storm of some major bugs, the need to divest it of some legacy code (eg: dropping older OSes), or some of the major rewrites required to get the application under the new license (ie: to cut off that crook W*t*n*be), but it seemed to be handling files, trackers, pieces, peers, the whole lot badly. Not all at once, but one then another, then another, with one or two corruption problems as well. I used to keep previous versions around in case I needed to roll back.

I don't do that any more. Nor do I (grudgingly) keep Azureus/Vuze around as a fallback. Since probably 1.5-ish onwards, T has returned to its days of greatness. I've upgraded from 1.75 to 1.76 by simply overwriting the old version. I don't worry about those problems any more. I know that there will always be glitches - it is *software* after all, and no application or OS can ever be perfect - but the storm has passed, and T has regained its place as both my preferred and recommended torrent client. There really is nothing like it, esp for the price. It's easy, reliable, stable, fast, doesn't hog every resource, has all the important features, and most of the nice-to-haves (Vuze has many more features, but they're mostly ridiculous). I can give T to both a newbie and an old hand and they'll both be happy.

...transmission is dutch! WTF? Unusable.

hmmm. Everything worked fantastic until 1.74, just a few days ago. This is the 1st time this program has given me ANY problems, however.

I am a Transmission fan since version 1.6x. While this version fixes stuff that were not an issue for me, it shows that the developers are actively interested in keeping the product as fresh as possible. It seems to offer features (like the bad peer blocker function and a per-torrent priority) that other P2P clients do not have. It's setup was intuitive for a novice, like me, and overtime the setup options have become familiar to me; what I am trying to say is that it comes operational 'out of the box' and gives you the time to learn how tweaks may be able to improve its performance in your ISP environment. In my experience, the concepts of P2P is something that takes a while to fully understand (if that is possible) and the Transmission product gives you the time to grabble with understanding what that environment is all about while using the P2P world.

My wish is that a user adjustable parameter be added to allow the user (me) to set the number of seeding peers per torrent. Now, this number is now fixed at 15. A global parameter would be just fine; a parameter per torrent would be elegant. I have plenty of bandwidth that is not being used and if I could offer more seeders per torrent then I would feel as a 'better' contributor to the P2P concept.

This product alone would be reason enough to switch to a Mac if I were a Windows user.

when you just want to use a torrent this is the way to go...I'm not going to test my connection with 4 different clients and declare one faster than the other, of screw around in the settings to squeeze some extra juice out of my downloads.

This little guy does everythign I need, super simple to use and figure out, and offers a pretty fair amount of options as needed (day time throttle control is something I wish my neighbors would use too)