Transmission 1.32

Publisher's description of Transmission

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Transmission has been built from the ground up to be a lightweight, BitTorrent client. Its simple, intuitive interface is designed to integrate tightly with whatever computing environment you choose to use. Transmission strikes a balance between providing useful functionality without feature bloat. Furthermore, it is free for anyone to use or modify. Transmission runs natively on over five operating systems. Seamless configuration of your network, intelligent banning of peers who send corrupted data, protocol encryption, and built in Peer Exchange are some of the features which enable Transmission to download your files as quickly as possible. All this is done in the background, without the user having to worry about complicated settings.

These days, bandwidth is a precious commodity. Transmission allows you to ration this commodity efficiently. You might want to queue your torrents for maximum performance. Or throttle their speed during peak periods. Transmission easily lets you do both, and thus only works its hardest when you want it to. Support for Growl notifications and dock badging keep you updated with what's going on so you can get back to doing more important things.

Version 1.32 fixes a bug where the proxy type was changed from SOCKS5 to SOCKS4 on launch.

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Editor's review of Transmission

Once upon a time, Mac users got the short end of the stick when it came to BitTorrent clients. Those days are gone, thankfully--and Transmission is a perfect example of that. This excellent open-source client is one of the very best choices for a BT client on the Mac, being both extremely lightweight (some users even manage to run the Ubuntu version on their cell phones) and fairly feature-packed.

Transmission's interface is easy to use--and easy on the eyes--and the app provides a whole host of clever features, especially when it comes to managing your bandwidth. Transmission lets you queue downloads, set "Speed Limits" for certain times of day, stop seeding when you've met a specified ratio, and more--all with live download stats viewable directly in the dock and support for Growl notifications.

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  Transmission

  Hands down best and most useful BitTorrent client

  by: on 13-Aug-2008 05:33:44 PM

  Pros: Full featured client that gives you all info on every bit being passed down and up your torrent file transfer.

  Cons: some info can only be viewed via sub menus... but this is a very minor issue.

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