Comments on: Transmission vs uTorrent [Mac Only]

By: ghost

ghost — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 11:39:53 +0000

why would your speed be zero if you ignore unencrypted peers with transmission? Wont you just only download from peers that also have encryption enabled?

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 01:44:12 +0000

to ignore unencrypted peers in utorrent there go to preferences and select FORCE for encrypted outgoing cnnxions.

I dont think transmission ignores them completely, because if you ignore incoming connections, your speed will be zero.

by the way, Utorrent is faster for me than any other client I ve ever used. Vuze is too slow, both in downloading section and in its operation. It is always doing something, my mac gets slow because of it.

By: ghost

ghost — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 11:14:30 +0000

I’ve been using transmission on mac for about a year, and have reached my max download speed countless times.(sometimes with one torrent, sometimes with multiple). I Will be testing utorrent for mac, to see how it runs. Also I haven’t seen a feature in utorrent for mac to ‘ignore unencrypted peers’.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 22:10:43 +0000

I’ve noticed that with the mac uTorrent, that once it’s closed out and re-opened. Preferences you set are reverted to default.

An example is when I change my download location to a torrent specific folder, it’ reverts to my user home DL folder. So I have to pause all torrents on quit, re-open, change DL location, and resume all torrents.

My conclusion is that I’m not going to switch to uTorrent (At least not until it gets better) I started with BitTorrent’s app, then tried Transmission and used it ever since.

By: Bob

Bob — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 21:44:29 +0000

you’re right, mac is slow as crap compared to linux

By: Lawrence

Lawrence — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:32:52 +0000

Having tested both extensively, I can report that each client favours peers using their own software. This is astounding but I can verify this 100% on my mac!

The same torrent file on uTorrent shows a list of peers with approx 70% using uTorrent, while Transmission’s peers for the same torrent shows peers mostly using Transmission.

If this observation is correct across the board, and since uTorrent is massive in the PC sector, you could get a wider pool of uTorrent peers from which to choose. This may have an impact on the average download rate of the swarm.

By: Callum

Callum — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:44:29 +0000

haha you cant compare anything on linux to mac
especially when its ran through an emulator

By: Kovac

Kovac — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 05:06:17 +0000

First of all, a rant. Bad, bad Johnny Boy. Don’t be so stingy, so greedy. Seed. Forever. Not everything, mind you – when I don’t like a file, I don’t want other people to be disappointed with it as well. But my favourites, oh boy – I got one at 30 ratio, and counting. I will only stop seeding when I delete the file itself.

Now, to business.

Even though everyone else is already saying it, I feel the need to repeat it once again. And I hate to admit that something originally meant for Windows works better than the one for Unix. But, here goes truth:

My connection isn’t very fast (top speed is ~200kB/s down, ~60 up). uTorrent gets me there, allowing me to use the whole potential of my cheap connection.

Transmission doesn’t.

I pick uTorrent. End of story.

By: i2ehan

i2ehan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:48:18 +0000

Couldn’t disagree more. Don’t take my word for it however, try it for yourself: download the latest uTorrent beta, enable port forwarding, and you’ll witness a substantial increase in your DL speed; and I mean substantial! I am virtually capped out at my max DL speed, it’s insane! Tip: Since some clients limit the minimum required upload speed (otherwise, the download ratio is drastically affected), even at 10kB/s UL limit, your DL speed can cap at max! Use this only when necessary however, don’t leech! Keep in mind, others are sacrificing their speed for your downloads, so seed people, seed!!! :)

By: rakoth

rakoth — Thu, 07 May 2009 22:22:06 +0000

Right, noticed that too.

By: Lucas

Lucas — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 13:03:06 +0000

This “feature” is the reason why transmission is denied in so many trackers. It doesn’t respect the protocol correctly. With torrents, you take what you give, in other words, the bigger is your upload rate, the bigger will be your download rate. Servers and clients have to stick for that for an just torrent world. Transmission tricks that, and download everything, not giving the other poor leechers their piece of the cake. uTorrent not, it’s completely addicted to the rules!

By: Bradley

Bradley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 11:22:16 +0000

I’m excited to see uTorrent on the Mac and started using it right away. Sometimes though, with big files (like 3+GB) it starts to stall out on me and has to be restarted before it will continue downloading. It recognizes available peers but just doesn’t start transferring data. Out or In.

By: petar

petar — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:19:27 +0000

i am using utorrent. before i used transmission. with both clients i got download speeds of 1.5MB. personally, i think utorrent is more stable.
cheers

By: simon

simon — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:35:15 +0000

Utorrent is not great on features it is true, BUT and its a big BUT, I have found it to be much much faster that Transmission. I have a Mac pro with 8gigs of Ram and a 20 mB broadband connection on a dynamic IP address.. Utorrent downloads regularly at up to 2mb/sec which is more than double the speed i can get with Transmission. Also with Transmission I would often lose connections for some reason.

Utorrent is bound to get better and I think will become the 1st choice for Mac users sooner than later

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 14:06:42 +0000

Same as on Windows just set uTorrent to not automatically start downloads when you add them, then you can manually specify to skip certain files in a torrent. Though it does not yet have the pop-up dialog like in Windows version when you disable auto-start of downloads.