Torrent Station is a BitTorrent client exclusively written for Mac OS. It offers advanced features such as global and individual limits, queueing and folders.
Stay away from this one if you care about the data you're downloading. Not worth my time, even less my money, there are plenty of much better FREE alternatives out there.
Whenever I let my PowerBook sleep, Torrent Station loses track of in-process torrents. When it reawakens, nothing is in the list of torrents. Even worse, it will not allow me to restart the torrent, telling me that the torrent I am trying to add is identical to one already in the list (even though NOTHING is in the list and NOTHING is downloading).
Worst of all - they provide no support whatsoever, even though they are charging $19.
I have an external hard drive that I download everything to. When I put the 27 gig torrent into torrent station to seed (already downloaded). I forgot to mount the drive. In those three min of beachball it was writing to an invisible temp file or something to my volumes folder. I didn't notice anything was wrong until my whole computer froze up. Tried to restart but it just spun and spun. Luckily I had a bootable partition on my external drive. I would not use this for any file if I were you.
This app is surely not bad. I really like it. But I'm NEVER gonna pay $19 for it when there are some very good freeware alternatives out there, sorry. Nice try anyway.
In order for someone to pay for a BitTorrent client, the application must be rather exceptional in features, performance etc. compared to all the other free offerings. This version is not. I would be willing to pay for a client if it offered the features of Azureus, the performance of Transmission and the graphics of Bits on Wheels. Until then...
I would like to see a client as feature rich as uTorrent for the PC come to the Mac. Until that happens, I will not pay a fee, especially not for a run-of-the-mill torrent client like this. IMHO, the best client is still Bits on Wheels.
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Torrent Station is a BitTorrent client exclusively written for Mac OS. It offers advanced features such as global and individual limits, queueing and folders.
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smpdigital reviewed on 06 May 2006
bubbler reviewed on 14 Feb 2006
Whenever I let my PowerBook sleep, Torrent Station loses track of in-process torrents. When it reawakens, nothing is in the list of torrents. Even worse, it will not allow me to restart the torrent, telling me that the torrent I am trying to add is identical to one already in the list (even though NOTHING is in the list and NOTHING is downloading).
Worst of all - they provide no support whatsoever, even though they are charging $19.
Total rip-off!
gmacster@gmail.com reviewed on 21 Jan 2006
I have an external hard drive that I download everything to. When I put the 27 gig torrent into torrent station to seed (already downloaded). I forgot to mount the drive. In those three min of beachball it was writing to an invisible temp file or something to my volumes folder. I didn't notice anything was wrong until my whole computer froze up. Tried to restart but it just spun and spun. Luckily I had a bootable partition on my external drive. I would not use this for any file if I were you.
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uTorrent is hardly a heavyweight feature-laden client, the Java mammoth Azureus is just that, and has been available for the Mac for ages.