utorrent for Mac Beta

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  1. santino

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    utorrent - the lightweight torrent client previously only available on PC has released a BETA Mac client.

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

    Currently, it is only available for Intel Macs running Leopard.

    This is beta so use it at your own risk but if it is half as good as the windows version is, Transmission has serious competition. :p
     
    #1 santino, Nov 27, 2008
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    Thats good news.. Transmission sucks lately. Same torrent using transmission on mac and utorrent on a pc, both with correct port forwarding, yields better and faster speeds on utorrent.
     
    #2 msinco, Nov 27, 2008
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    I find the same to be true. I am really looking forward to the final release of utorrent for OS X. I just hope it performs like its PC counterpart.
     
    #3 santino, Nov 27, 2008
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    got it! hehehe!
     
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    whoa, you guys received the mail too eh?
    downloading...
     
    #5 rycua, Nov 27, 2008
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    psssst....

    yup received it too :)
     
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    Yey! Utorrent for mac :D Yep, transmission kinda goes haywire once in a while :D
     
    #7 mitchtb, Nov 27, 2008
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    awss it only for leopard.. :(
     
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    i hate transmission. I was downloading something (around 7.95gb) when it said i had downloaded 55% already. After a hangup, restarted transmission only to see it went down to around 25% weird
     
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    Their mail made me smile :)
     
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    i have a 1.0 version from cyrusthegreat, its around 1.3mb...
    here's the screenshot:
    [​IMG]
     
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  12. santino

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    If version 1.0 is making the rounds, why are they only offering 0.9 on the site?
     
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    my thoughts exactly! anyway, if you guys need a copy i think our mail clients can handle a measly 1.3mb file so post your email add! :)
     
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    upload niyo naman please for everyone ung 1.0. ano difference sa 0.9?

    And yes, transmission has been slower ever since the last update.
     
    #15 pandaboy, Nov 27, 2008
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    yes please. if someone could just upload it so that everyone else can download it
     
    #16 alikishi, Nov 27, 2008
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    Just google uTorrent 1.0 for Mac. It's available as a torrent link (ironically). So you still have to use Transmission to get this one.
     
    #17 docnico, Nov 27, 2008
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    Transmission is "slower" maybe because it has no DHT (the distributed database) support and has no plans of supporting it. DHT enables you to connect to other clients even when the tracker is down.

    This makes transmission sensitive to the tracker's availability.
     
    #18 lamski, Nov 27, 2008
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    IMHO DHT is not the issue. I disable DHT on utorrent running on my PC and it still is noticably faster than transmission on my MBP
     
    #19 santino, Nov 27, 2008
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    Finally! I hope it lives up to expectations! uTorrent was the only Windows application I miss when using a Mac.
     
    #20 Salaryman Ryan, Nov 27, 2008
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