Torrent Programs

I am currently a pc user, and a very happy one! Although I am a person who likes change. When I graduate high school I'm looking into getting an ibook. However I am an avid downloader and torrents are my best friend. I was wondering if there was any torrent programs avaliable for a mac. This will either make of break my mac experience hehe, thanks!

Also what video players can be installed on a mac? windows has quicktime which is a mac program so on a windows pc you can play about every type of video file. Is mac picky?

torrents

yes there's torrent managers for the mac.

azureus for example can do anything
you can do in pc land :mac:

and vlc for example plays most files :mac:

Yea, I just use the regular Bittorrent client and it works good for me, great speeds and everything! I tried Azureus but it seems to not open on the Intel based macs, but since you are getting an ibook, it should be fine.

i use transmission

Thanks alot guys! Since I just found a bunch of programs on torrentspy for a mac I'm happy.

todd51 - you must've downloaded an old copy of Azureus, I'm running it fine on my Intel iMac, it does nearly everything BitComet did on the PC, the only thing I'd like to see is scheduled bandwidth limiters due to my lousy ISPs Fair Usage policy.

todd51 said:

Yea, I just use the regular Bittorrent client and it works good for me, great speeds and everything! I tried Azureus but it seems to not open on the Intel based macs, but since you are getting an ibook, it should be fine.

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there are two separate azureus progs you need the intel one, which works
seemlessly on my macbook the other only runs for ppc machines in os x

Tomato Torrent seems to be popular among my friends, but it was pretty slow for me.

If you can deal with the lower picture quality, VLC Media Player plays most things well.

So vlc plays videos in low quality? Are tehre any other video players that play avi , wmv , mpg, mpeg and so on? Thanks!

Glenners said:

So vlc plays videos in low quality? Are tehre any other video players that play avi , wmv , mpg, mpeg and so on? Thanks!

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well Flip4Mac(.com?) allows you to play wmv's on quicktime and i have no experience with VLC on mac but on PC it plays them in a lower quality but its far from bad

So there is an Azureus client that will work on my MBP?

Yes. It works great

Would you happen to have a link??

azureus for mactel users

go here for azureus on intel macs

okay ppl i am a noob at mac

i need help! peers seem to always be 0 and seeds are 0 too
ive tried using bittorrent and transmission

i have the mac witht the intel chip

wen i use my pc, the speeds are fine, but wen i use my mac it neva seems to want to download, if it does, its like at 5.0kb max

need help

Tomato is the best I feel

Download it.go to ISOHUNT.Download your Torrent to your desktop.drag your Torrent into Tomato and he presto!

yeh but how do i get more seeds and peers connected
it seems wateva torrent d/loader i use its the same thing. slow speeds and 1 peer or something

on the pc it works fine, its juss my mac that doesnt wanna download faster

wat do i do ppl, any suggestions? im sure im not the only one witht this prob right?

Transmission works great for me. I originally downloaded the one from bittorrent.com. But that one kept stalling out and wasn't working good.

chasincharpchui - sounds like you're firewalled or have NAT setup issues - this can result in slow speeds as only your torrent client can initiate connections so your bandwidth drops way down.

Are you behind a router? What's your setup?

got a whit mac book - its all about transmission. I saw the light and left pcs for my mac book and compared to azureus transmission is a dream to use! And super fast for me for most things!