µTorrent beta for OS X!

[Epyon9283]

http://mac.utorrent.com/beta/



yay it's finally out (at least in beta form). No more having to deal with Transmission!

[Ikematsu]

What's so bad about Transmission?

[Epyon9283]

In my experience download speeds with transmission aren't great. Also doesn't support DHT AFAIK.

There was also a rather annoying issue with speed limit mode. If I ever accidently enabled it on any of my Macs the machine would hang within 5 minutes. Due to the way Transmission implemented that feature it filled up the network buffers of the OS and caused it to hang.

Edit: Been using the beta more and its really buggy still. If you set utorrent to be the default app for .torrent files and you try to open the torrent file by double clicking it in finder, or selecting it in a dock stack, or double clicking it from the download window in safari the application you attempted to open it from crashes. That's really annoying.

[SeijiSensei]

Can't you run deluge on the Mac? It's written in Python so I would have thought it platform-neutral.

Edit: Yup, there's an OS X version on the main page.

[Epyon9283]

Deluge is a GTK app so it's going to run in X11 on OS X. That's generally pretty icky. You don't get a neat .app bundle to assign file types to and X11 has quite a few bugs. One of my favorites is that tool tips will bleed through an application in the background to show up out of place in whatever application you have in the foreground.

Plus look at all the dependencies I'd need to install. I'd need to switch the system python framework to the one installed by macports and that frightens me a bit.

Mac-Pro:~ tom$ sudo port deps deluge
deluge has library dependencies on:
	python25
	dbus-python25
	gettext
	librsvg
	py25-gtk
	py25-hashlib
	py25-setuptools
	py25-xdg
	py25-zlib
	boost

[gunshottrigun]

I used the beta for a little bit, it isn't quite like uTorrent for Windows yet, but who knows. Hopefully it will keep improving. I'll keep using the memory hog that is Transmission until uTorrent is reliable and out of beta.

[pigoz]

I started using Transmission again and now its faaaast, they even implemented DHT. Maybe they were starting to feel the competition from uTorrent?

[chikorita157]

From my experience of running Transmission, the later versions are alot better... The early versions like 0.9x have alot of problems, but all of it is fixed now...

Also, I don't like using X11 that much... it takes away the native feel of Mac OS X away and it works like a linux application with all the non-native widgets (yuck)... If I were to use a X11 app, I rather use Linux instead.

Also, Transmission have DHT support in versions 1.7x and higher

[Epyon9283]

I switched back to Transmission. uTorrent stopped remembering the port I wanted it to listen on which annoyed me quite a bit.