Existing users, 
Best torrent client out there for OSX. Whoever posts having this client corrupt their downloads is doing something wrong. Pure user error. I've tried to get corruption and failed.
My first experience was that I had about 15 torrent downloads going at the same time in the official BT client. I noticed that the more downloads I added, the slower the total download speed became. So I quit BT official, started up Transmission, and picked up all 15 downloads right where BT left off. If that won't corrupt a file (and it didn't) I don't know what will. Oh, and had a better than 10x speed increase right off the bat!!!
Since then I've downloaded a few hundred torrents of all sizes, from all over the place, 10s of gigs in total. Transmission gives consistant high speed and has proven to be 100% reliable.
Much more fully featured than official BT (unless you want to make your own torrents), and a much better program overall. Thanks to the multiple delete options, I find myself having to do a lot less manual file cleanup after downloads.
I've deleted official BT client from my machine, and have never spent more than 30 seconds with azareus it's so bad. This is the client you want if you want your downloads to finish quickly.
With that being said, the following features would be great:
- ability to set max d/l rate (why only u/l rate?!?)
- ability to "pause all" and "resume all"
- show on the main screen total u/l and total d/l (so you can avoid being a leech easier)
Transmission
Tweakable BitTorrent client.
Version: 1.76
best torrent client - blows away BT, forget azareus
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Contributed by: dnedved Monday, December 12 2005 @ 04:05 PM PST
Product Platform: MacOSX
Used Product For: 1-6 months
Recommend Product: YES
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best torrent client - blows away BT, forget azareus - dnedved
Pure Bullshit. In case of a system crash all data being downloaded at this time gets corrupted.
Wrong, you don't know what you're talking about. If you get corrupted data, it's user error on the part of the uploader, or something REALLY stupid on the part of the downloader. Any torrent client which conforms to spec will do its own error checking. See the bittorrent FAQ at http://www.bittorrent.com/FAQ.html:
How do I know the download isn't corrupted?
BitTorrent does cryptographic hashing (SHA1) of all data. When you see "Download succeeded!" you can be sure that BitTorrent has already verified the integrity of the data. The integrity and authenticity of a BitTorrent download is as good as the original request to the tracker. Checking the MD5/CRC32/other hash of a file downloaded via BitTorrent is redundant.
If you have a crash, just restart your torrent session, it will go through and validate all the data and re-download any blocks it finds corrupted. If you don't trust one particular client, run the torrent through one that you trust after downloading to prove it to yourself. Stop trying to scare people with lies, the torrent client isn't at fault with any problems you've had. Go read up on the protocol before you make yourself look like more of an idiot.
Wednesday, January 04 2006 @ 04:27 AM PST
best torrent client - blows away BT, forget azareus - zeebie
Oh, you're no fun.. I had several corrupted files after a crash of the application,downloaded the same files with the same torrent once again and they were ok. So it
can't have been corrupted data on the upload side, huh? The only really stupid thing
on my part was the crash of that crappy app.
Saturday, January 28 2006 @ 12:50 PM PST
best torrent client - blows away BT, forget azareus - zeebie
> Whoever posts having this client corrupt their downloads is doing something wrong. Pure user error.Pure Bullshit. In case of a system crash all data being downloaded at this time gets corrupted.
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Monday, December 26 2005 @ 02:15 PM PST