What's best: Transmission, Azureus or Tomato Torrent?

I've searched a bit, these are the usual ones that people suggest.

What're your opinions of the best one? (and why?)

If you've got another that you think is better, go right ahead.

My opinion is transmission it uses very little resources than the others. It looks good and is easy to use. That's why it is my favorite.

does transmission have a safe peer plugin like azureus?

I've never used TT, but my opinion on the others are:

Transmission: Looks good. Lightweight; very basic, with few options/features (but those that it does have are very handy). Still lacking some pretty basic features.

Azureus: Slow. Includes a lot more features/options, but doesn't have some of the nicer touches Trans. does. All the options give a bloated/unfriendly UI.

Xtorrent: (Only used briefly) Looks good. Has some unique features that are very useful. More advanced than Trans. yet faster and friendlier than Azureus. SHAREWARE.

I use Azureus, but if someone could tell me if Transmission had a Safe Peer plugin, I would definitely try it out.

todd51 said:

I use Azureus, but if someone could tell me if Transmission had a Safe Peer plugin, I would definitely try it out.

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That's the real beauty of Azureus, isn't it? You can read all sorts of things about leaner, meaner, faster torrents apps, but none of it matters if there isn't a Safe Peer-esque plugin.

Whenever I dip my toe into P2P I use Tomato, I've never had any problems with it.

I don't know what safe-peer is...I use Transmission. I like it. I tried Azureus just the other day, and it basically killed my iMac C2D with 1.5 GB or Ram and nothing else running.

I removed it immediately, and decided to stick with Transmission.

I haven't tried the other two.

I started with Azureus and stuck with that because I was happy with it.

Just switched to Transmission.

Why didn't someone mention how good it was before!!!!!


Maybe I wasn't listening!

I find transmission to be too simple for my taste. I don't think Azureus sucks up enough cpu to warrant switching, plus I seed heavily so I'm not really using my mbp while running it.

When people say Azureus is slow, what do they mean? I get faster download speeds on Azureus than on Transmission, it seems to connect to more Seeders than trans. And that's all there is to it.

For A Few Dollars More.

I used all the above mentioned and for the last few months have been using Dave Watanabe's xtorrent and it's flippin' ace! It's smooth, pretty much bug-free and very quick if your system is up to it and your connection allows. (I'm using 24Mb ADSL but getting 6-7Mb as an average and have achieved very quick dl's on both MBPro and my old but trusty PowerBook.
What's more, xtorrent 1.1 just beta'd yesterday it has some new cool features although I haven't had an opportunity to really check it out yet (I'm hoping that there is stuff like bookmarks available in the beta).

One word of warning tho, to use the real speed of XT you need to buy a license; I think about $18 dollars. It is possible to to run a XT at full speed without a licensce but your up and dl speed is restricted after about 10 mins.
This may seem mean but the guy has built (and builds other great apps) a good piece of software so I was and happy to have given him a few dollars.

I have no affiliation with Mr Watanabe; wish I did! But believe in 'credit where credit is due'.

D DUbyahs blog:
http://www.newsfirex.com/blog/

Hope this is of benefit to people.

I use miro. No complaints. Lots of cool features.

http://www.getmiro.com/

chriss888 said:

I used all the above mentioned and for the last few months have been using Dave Watanabe's xtorrent and it's flippin' ace! It's smooth, pretty much bug-free and very quick if your system is up to it and your connection allows. (I'm using 24Mb ADSL but getting 6-7Mb as an average and have achieved very quick dl's on both MBPro and my old but trusty PowerBook.
What's more, xtorrent 1.1 just beta'd yesterday it has some new cool features although I haven't had an opportunity to really check it out yet (I'm hoping that there is stuff like bookmarks available in the beta).

One word of warning tho, to use the real speed of XT you need to buy a license; I think about $18 dollars. It is possible to to run a XT at full speed without a licensce but your up and dl speed is restricted after about 10 mins.
This may seem mean but the guy has built (and builds other great apps) a good piece of software so I was and happy to have given him a few dollars.

I have no affiliation with Mr Watanabe; wish I did! But believe in 'credit where credit is due'.

D DUbyahs blog:
http://www.newsfirex.com/blog/

Hope this is of benefit to people.

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So are these torrent downloads? Or are they direct P2P (if there is even a difference?)?

Transmission: No problems at all...slick look, easy to use.

Tomato: No problems, looks ok.....I always had upload problems

Azureus: Very buggy...always having to upgrade, too much stuff going on to figure any of it out....deleted it from Macbook.

My favourite is Utorrent. It was the one thing I missed when I first moved from PC to a Mac. Like transmission it's "very" resource friendly, when ever I used Azaruse (called Vuze now I believe) it always seemed like it had a memory leak. I would run it overnight and by the morning I would have a 2GB swap file due to it eating through all the RAM. Utorrent doesn't to that and I'm use to the UI. Transmission is a close 2nd for me.

Ye Olde Thread!
Vuze is now brilliant and not buggy at all now.

/Agrees with Kevriano

I use Transmission,
why? because it so simple but feels still advance, does what you want it to do and now it even got really cool futures, really nice interface and user friendly

last I use Azureus it was blurry and they tried to make it user friendly, but they just made a windows vista out of it and it takes up the hole screen (you could make it smaller, but feel like getting 100% out of it you needed to use the hole screen)

and transmission is just there and doing it job, being small and just, I like it =)

Spam. Comparisons.

Kevriano said:

Ye Olde Thread!

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I'm 99% sure the poster's only reason for posting was the linkspam for tennis machines.

I came to compare Transmission, which I've been using, with Bits on Wheels and Tomato, or discover anything new and good. I'm tempted to try Bits on Wheels just to see the pretty picture, but it seems like it hasn't been updated in half a decade.

I'm happy with Transmission - it uses few resources IFF YOU CLOSE ALL ITS WINDOWS.

Features:

• MAINTAINED,
• port (NAT) health status,
• PEX,
• DHT,
• Blocklist w/updating,
• encryption support,
• lots of bandwidth, priority, ratio, resource and other controls.