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doofy
Also tired of azureus on your mac... for me this app works like ****, need lots of recources and is ugly as hell.. tomato looks nice but has little extra info and so does the officiale client.
If you agree with me on those point, check out this fairly new client, its still in progress but it works quite stable. it also has some nice eyecandy:

3d image of all seeders and leechers
user posted image

download it here: http://www.bitsonwheels.com

Orson
Awesome program man, thanxs smile.gif Finally a cool bittorrentclient for Mac OS X devil.gif
PureEdit
Sweet, I just keep finding great new mac apps today.
Radish™
I just wish the original BitTorrent client was updated for OS X sad.gif

The Windows/Linux clients are on 4.0.1, while OS X's client is on 3.4.2.

Radish™
DrunknMunky
QUOTE(doofy @ Mar 28 2005, 09:21)
Also tired of azureus on your mac... for me this app works like ****, need lots of recources and is ugly as hell..


Do you sit and watch your torrent download till it reaches 100% blink.gif What does it matter what it looks like lol. Thanks for the link though, I'll try this new app out smile.gif
macster
Wow the 3D view is very nice
krmathis
QUOTE(Radish™ @ Mar 28 2005, 19:51)
I just wish the original BitTorrent client was updated for OS X sad.gif

The Windows/Linux clients are on 4.0.1, while OS X's client is on 3.4.2.
Ditto! yes.gif
vip
i just use tomato torrent, it rocks
divinatum
QUOTE(vip @ Mar 28 2005, 16:32)
i just use tomato torrent, it rocks
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yep, nice and simple client. Just the core needs to be updated to the latest BT... oh well

and bitsonwheels looks nice. that view is... o_O odd.
PureEdit
After testing this some more it does not seem to work as well as tomato torrent.

It takes longer to connect, and does not connect to as many people on the same files.
Fusion
I thought the interface was extremely ugly! I too wish that they would simply just update the official client, it was always my favorite.
russdaplaya
Picked up this comment from over here: tauw.com
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The most obvious one is that it seemed to lack the endgame mode, in which bittorrent tries to get the last pieces from more than one person, so you don't have to wait for the slowest one. A look in the release notes shows that he fixed that in mid february. The way it connected to other peers also lost against the original bittorrent in the 2 tests I made.
Moreover claiming "Bits on Wheels is the first 100% Native BitTorrent client" shows that the implementor has no idea how complicated and hard good networking and p2p is. If you listen to the talk mentioned above, then you'll see how much caveats and problems there are. And bram is doing this like forever. There are many subtleties in his algorithm, that make them work the way it does. A good time investment would be to improve the bittorrent in the areas already identified.
BitsOnWheels may get level to level with azureus some time. But even azureus does not achieve the throughput of the original python client. Which btw just got updated to 4.0.1 with again serious improvements.
I'd love to see people that put this litte python core into a nice really good GUI client, instead of reinventing the wheel and sucking at it.

I too like some others in this thread wish the official client was up-to-date. I have no idea on programming etc and have tried to build the official python source (4.0.1) but it doesn't appear to have worked correctly, as in this previous Neowin thread: Compiling Python Source
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