CreativeFlux

BitRocket

September 5th, 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