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Title: Bit Torrent MAC OSX what do I need?
Post by: cleantone on November 28, 2004, 11:32:04 PM

I'm off dial up. What do I need to start seeding and d/l Torrents? In OSX?

Thanks

Title: Re: Bit Torrent MAC OSX what do I need?
Post by: Brian Skalinder on November 28, 2004, 11:38:30 PM

There are at least a couple Mac BT clients listed in the Archival Info forum BT Seeding thread (http://www.taperssection.com/yabbse/index.php?topic=18284.0).  I vaguely recall a few people here liking Tomato.

Title: Re: Bit Torrent MAC OSX what do I need?
Post by: RRobar on November 29, 2004, 12:09:14 AM

I've been using Azureus. WOrks well loads of options. I've used Tomato to seed a torrent but thats about it.

Title: Re: Bit Torrent MAC OSX what do I need?
Post by: cleantone on November 29, 2004, 09:09:04 AM

Thanks, does tomato have better seeding abilities or does it matter?

Title: Re: Bit Torrent MAC OSX what do I need?
Post by: Brian Skalinder on November 29, 2004, 09:39:12 AM

Quote from: cleantone on November 29, 2004, 09:09:04 AM

Thanks, does tomato have better seeding abilities or does it matter?

It shouldn't really matter, mostly a question of which feature set you prefer.  I haven't used the Mac s/w, but in WinDoze, the original BT client is a little short on user-friendly features, and I suspect the same is true for Mac.  So I use ABC (which isn't available on Mac).  Tomato probably has a better feature set and is likely more user friendly, so I'd try it first over the original client.