Integrating a search box is a great idea, but it limits searches to the BitTorrent website, not considered the most thorough source by torrent aficionados.

It doesn’t provide many statistics and doesn’t let you customize the interface. And compared to other alternatives such as uTorrent or qBitttorent, it doesn't work half as well despite similarities in appearance. It’s also good to set your downloads by priority to monitor more precisely how your torrents are doing.Ĭompared to the exhaustive Azureus, Bittorrent is very simplistic. At the very least, you should choose the right port and setting upload and download rate limits to avoid hogging your bandwidth. You can improve things slightly by changing the settings of multiple torrent downloads but there are few diagnostic tools to help you work out the problem. However, a frequent complaint with BitTorrent for Mac is that downloads rarely start and when they do, they can be notoriously unstable. The more seeds there are the quicker files will download. The speed at which you download will depend on the number of seeds, that is people who have the complete file and are sharing it.

Once you’ve found the torrent you want, download it to your Mac, open it up inside BitTorrent for Mac and let the client do its job. In fact, the latest version looks uncannily like uTorrent although the functionality is nowhere near as good, unfortunately. Thanks to a straightforward, uncluttered interface BitTorrent for Mac appears as a friendly torrent client that beginners will feel comfortable with.

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