BitRocket
September 05, 2006
Since I started using Mac computers around a year and a half ago, one thing that has always eluded me is a really good Bit Torrent client. Sure there’s Azureus, but it’s a real dog and eats up memory like it’s been starved for a year. Then there are a few others such as Tomato Torrent or Transmission, but these lack the features I want and also offer pretty poor download speeds.
Enter BitRocket a client that I’d not heard of until today. It has an impressive array of features some of which include:
- Torrent Generator
- RSS Support
- UPnP and NAT-PMP Port Forwarding (and it works!)
- DHT
- Serves multiple torrents on a single port and in a single thread
- Selective downloading
The app is wrapped up in a unified interface and the layout is quite nicely done making torrent management a breeze.
The download speeds aren’t too shabby either. I was able to achieve my full download speed (1200Kb/s) on a few torrents I tested, without opening any ports on my router and the app uses very little memory to boot.
All in all a nice client which, despite being in beta, is already better than most of the other offerings on the Mac. Highly Recommended!
Check out the BitRocket website here
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