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    Good Bittorent program for MAC

    Sorry if this was posted before i did a search but no results. Anyone know a good program that will actually download the file, bittorrent really blows for MAC version. I have Bitlord on my Computer but i'm in the process of moving and i need some good movies for the looooong drive.

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    Transmission..

    If you have apple firewall on, make sure you allow the port other wise it will download reaaaaaaaally slow..
    something i found out after a year of using it :S

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    If you would be so kind as to tell me where i would find the Apple firewall settings i woud greatly appreciate it. Kinda just got my MAC and never had one before...

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    i think its somewhere in security settings or somethin, try to look it up in help im sure you'll find it..
    i'd give you specific steps but the problem is my mac isnt hooked at the moment and im trying to fix my pc at the same time..
    if you couldnt do it i'll try to look it up later

    good luck

    mac > xp

    vista = OSX wannabe

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    Yeah i can't find a firewall setting anywhere :/ I'll just try and google some shit ohwell

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    sorry dude im not being lazy about it or anything,

    i have one screen only and certain amount of sockets to use either pc or mac ...cant use both

    again, ill try to find it once im done with this crap

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    it's cool thanks for telling me it's some sort of firewall on my MAC, now i know why it's really slow

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    haha i found it and it says it's off and that i'm allowing FTP, Personal file sharing and what not but i can't do anything with torrents :/

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    I prefer Xtorrent, it lets you search for stuff all in the same app and is really clean to use.

    If I need to download only one thing from a torrent, I use Azereus, but you need to set up your firewall for that.

    And if you are looking for a cute, free client there is Bits on Wheels, but that's not updated anymore.

    Xtorrent is really slick, give it a shot.

    And, as a quick note, you don't capitalize Mac all the way! MAC is an networking term, Mac is just short for Macintosh!

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    Xtorrent looks pretty nice. Just downloaded it and it's actually downloadin my torrent!!! Only 3 days left till the torrent is done haha ohwell better then .01kb/sec on bittorent

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    what you need to do is

    go back to where it says you allow ftp
    and choose [ NEW ]

    type the name of the program
    type the port that you're torrent program uses
    and allow it...

    my downloads went from 25KB to 150KB+

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    Make sure you be aware of your upload settings.

    I cap mine at 20k because if you max out your upload capacity, you will suffer greatly on download speeds.

    Glad to be of help!

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    Quote Originally Posted by royze
    i think its somewhere in security settings or somethin, try to look it up in help im sure you'll find it..
    i'd give you specific steps but the problem is my mac isnt hooked at the moment and im trying to fix my pc at the same time..
    if you couldnt do it i'll try to look it up later

    good luck

    mac > xp

    vista = OSX wannabe
    Win.

    BitRocket is a good alternative, but as far as I know, it's still in BETA. I've yet to encounter any errors, though. It offers many of the same features that Azeures does, but with a much cleaner, more mac-like interface and the added bonus that it's not written in lolJava.

    Edit: Xtorrent is also very good.

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