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May 7 2006

TECHITCH79  Is it UPnP-compatible, like the original BitTorrent-client?  
(Version 1.1)

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May 6 2006
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SMPDIGITAL  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.  
(Version 1.1)

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Feb 14 2006
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BUBBLER  STAY AWAY from Torrent Station!

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!  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Jan 21 2006
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GMACSTER@GMAIL.COM  Warning! Not safe

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.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Jan 21 2006

GMACSTER@GMAIL.COM  The app stalled for a good 3 min when I dropped my 27gb stephen king torrent in there.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Jan 15 2006

WHYTOI  How ironic, there's now a cracked version for this Bittorrent client floating around.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Jan 25 2006

HAL2007  Even more ironically, this version is shared via BitTorrent... ;-)  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Jan 7 2006

HAL2007  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.  
(Version 1.0.1)

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Jan 4 2006
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PASPRO  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...  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 3 2006

NOOKSTER  Not perfect, but the more the merrier I say.

uTorrent is hardly a heavyweight feature-laden client, the Java mammoth Azureus is just that, and has been available for the Mac for ages.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 3 2006

OHSNAP  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.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 3 2006
**½..

SEMIOTICMONKEY  First thing first. It lacks a way to generate .torrents. So it is useless for the those who are not accustomed to the hit-and-run policy of the others p2p protocols.

In this regard it is comparable to Transmission but:

Transmission is at 0.4 release and not 1.0

Transmission is freeware

In my opinion, It is not a good idea to request a fee to give a unfinished product and this, until the dev puts the "Generate Torrent" option, is an unfinished product.

then, the GUI is a wasted screen space. To have all the info visible you have to have the window at a minimum of 640x480 and this, for all those on a 12" iBook or PowerBook is an insane request. This is valid for the others too. I suggest a GUI rethink. Something more compact. I would suppress the "Folder Pane" the utility of which i don't see.

It lacks, like the others client (except Azu), the Selective Download Option. But, again, this is not freeware so i expect somethin more than the free alternatives for my money.

It persists in not remembering the last path in the Open/Save dialog (yes, i set it up to ask everytime and not to use the defaul path)

I stop here but there would be more to say.

All in all, unimpressed. Use BOW, instead.  
(Version 1.0)

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Jan 3 2006
***½.

JKANTRO  Good client except there are abut 6 other free bittorrent clients that are better or on the same level as this. I.E Bits on Wheels. The only thing I don't like is how a few things on the UI are placed. It could be much better and easier to navigate. Good luck future versions, maybe I'll switch some day  
(Version 1.0)

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