P2P program for Apple (newbie question!).
I've just got my first Apple laptop!
Can someone recommend some Apple P2P software?
I've heard of Limewire a few times.
Is this any good?
Are there Apple Bitorent programs?
(I've done a search for Apple P2P on Yahoo... but I don't get any useful results.)
Thanks.
OM
Can someone recommend some Apple P2P software?
I've heard of Limewire a few times.
Is this any good?
Are there Apple Bitorent programs?
(I've done a search for Apple P2P on Yahoo... but I don't get any useful results.)
Thanks.
OM
Comments
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Transmission also gets banned from certain sites.
Azureus is the best by far for Bittorrent. Transmission is way too limited:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Transmission also gets banned from certain sites.
I know about that, that's why I have Azureus too, as a back up
Welcome to the Mac-- I've noticed you have several simultaneous posts. You can put them into one if they're all about advice-seeking...
i like sourceforge... so i think i'll go for Azureus.
Welcome to the Mac-- I've noticed you have several simultaneous posts. You can put them into one if they're all about advice-seeking...
sorry will do in future.
Azureus was more hassle, felt slow and clunky due to the UI being Java. It was okay on Windows, but no longer.
I have tolerated Acquisition nagging, but I just got off my ass and am going to try replacing it with Poisoned now.
I like free software. Not free as in speech (though that is nice too), but free as in beer. Why the latter matters to me is not because I'm cheap - I'd like to think I am not. But software that does not cost money will not bug you demanding serial numbers and licenses and keys and dongles. It will not require you to keep a fragile optical disk in your drive while using it. To make a backup of it you can just copy it, it will not require a bit-by-bit copy of the surface of its disk to work. What's more, most of the time you don't even want to keep backups because you can just download it again from the web.
Though most software that costs something fails at one or more of these points, OS X succeeds. It's the kind of software I'm glad to pay for.
Azureus is the best by far for Bittorrent. Transmission is way too limited:
http://azureus.sourceforge.net/
Transmission also gets banned from certain sites.
I second this one. I use Azureus also :] Great program.
I am using Transmission now. Getting speeds of upto 29 KBps on my 32 KBps connection. I love it! Is Azureus almost as good?
...No
No?! But so many people are recommending it...
What he meant to say was 'No... Azureus is better than Transmission'.
A lot of people put Azureus down because it's not a true Mac app with a Macified interface but it's still the best Bittorrent client out there in terms of features and acceptance.
Download speeds are fine too - I often get 200kBps+ but it depends on the seeders more than the program.
Since Transmission is lightweight, it supposedly uses less resources but you can't set the upload speeds of individual torrents or choose just one file in a big torrent to download. So say someone has uploaded a whole TV series and you want episode 27. With Transmission, you have to download the whole series.