- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Mac OS X 10.6/10.5 PPC/Intel
- Date added: December 15, 2009
- Total Downloads: 41,911
- Downloads last week: 890
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 10 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Paul Hughes on June 10, 2009
Transmission is one of the very best choices for a BitTorrent 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 very easy to use--and easy on the eyes--and this open-source app provides a whole host of clever features and flexible settings, 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, along with support for Growl notifications. As if all of that weren't appealing enough, Transmission is also free, making it a very attractive option for anyone who works with torrents.
Publisher's description
From Transmission Project :Transmission is a fast, easy, and free multi-platform BitTorrent client.
Transmission sets initial preferences so things "Just Work", while advanced features like watch directories, bad peer blocking, and the web interface can be configured with just a few clicks. Macworld put it this way: "It's fast, it's extremely lightweight, and -- even though it's available for a variety of platforms -- it behaves just as you'd expect a Mac program to."
Transmission supports full encryption, file selection, a web-based interface, groups, peer exchange, automatic port forwarding, webseeds, watch directories, tracker editing, global and per-torrent speed limits, and more.
Its code is freely available online and is licensed under either the GNU Public License v2 or the MIT License. The development team welcomes anyone who is interested in contributing code, documentation, translations, or other help.
What's new in this version:
- German localization
- Tracker announcement improvements
- Encrypted handshakes to peers now use less CPU
- Filter out spurious IP addresses obtained through LTEP
- Fix 1.80 beta 1 crash in magnet links when serving metadata to peers
- Fix 1.80 beta 1 bug that caused peer lists to be lost over time
- Fix 1.80 beta 1 bug that caused duplicate block downloads from peers
- Fix 1.80 beta 1 bug that incorrectly displayed some scrapes as failed<... see all new features
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