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Transmission

Transmission - 1.72

Easy-to-use, highly tweakable BitTorrent client.

All Time: (4.0)
This Version: Not rated (0.0)
Current Version: 1.72
Release Date: 2009-06-16
License: Freeware
Downloads (this version): 7,150
Downloads (all versions): 565,564

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Product Description:

Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, yet powerful BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify.

Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, protocol encryption, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.

These days, bandwidth is a precious commodity. Transmission allows you to ration this commodity efficiently. You might want to queue your torrents for maximum performance. Or throttle their speed during peak periods. Transmission easily lets you do both, and thus only works its hardest when you want it to. Support for Growl notifications and dock badging keep you updated with what's going on so you can get back to doing more important things.

What's new in this version:

  • Fix problem where a small set of users could not add torrents
  • Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tv->tv_usec >= 0"
  • Fix 1.70 crash with assertion "tr_peerIoSupportsFEXT( msgs->peer->io )"
  • Better DHT announce management
  • Fix error in reporting webseed counts via RPC

Operating System Requirements:

This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:

  • Mac OS X 10.5 Intel
  • Mac OS X 10.5 PPC

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Transmission Troubleshooting ReportUpon finishing download, transfers still switch to 'seed forever' despite reaching upload limit. - Version: 1.72, 6/21/2009 09:27PM PST

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Wizardling
For months now Transmission nightlies and stable builds will switch a transfer to 'seed forever', no matter that it reached it's upload limit before downloading was finished (I tend to be able to upload faster than I can download).

Bug reports have been ignored insisting that I must purchase screen video capture software and make a video of this occurring before I will be believed by Transmission developers. Sorry - I'm not going to buy software for one time use.

Also 'check for update' remains broken many months after this was reported.
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Transmission ReviewNice and easy - Version: 1.72, 6/16/2009 10:03PM PST

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Mavent04
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)
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Transmission ReviewA really good client! - Version: 1.71, 6/13/2009 10:18AM PST

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Rufus J

Transmission is a really great bittorrent client. With a very easy to use interface, it is easy to configure and it's easy to manage your torrents. Creating them is a snap, too, in case you're one of those who likes to give back.

With the last couple of rounds of feature enhancements, transmission now lacks very few features of other clients. I still wish it allowed queue reordering, and I'm not convinced it pays much attention to "priority" settings, and I would really like to have the ability to manage upload slots. These are the only shortcomings I can think of at the moment.

I have right now 98 torrents in the queue and Transmission is running just as quietly in the background as ever, with no increased use of resources or any signs of unresponsiveness. I have also been using it without incident since v1.3 at a private tracker which officially discourages it because of problems with earlier version.

Transmission is a truly great piece of software which is steadily growing and developing. With just a very few features missing, Transmission is a "must try" for anyone looking into bittorrent clients.

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