Name: Bits on Wheels
Rating: 4.2571 (5 reviews)

Worthless. Keeps crashing after 15 seconds.

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Its a shame development of this client seems to have stalled. The 3D Seed/Leech view was badass. Personally, I switched to Transmission.

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Great torrent client, but it's outdated. If you liked Bits on Wheels, try Transmission.

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great program and i forgot to rate it! STILL looking forward to hearing about the dev of this app.. fingers are crossed :]

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what's the status of this? Shame to see this great app die! Be nice for continued dev and maybe UB..

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_ Bummer. I used to follow this closely but the project appears to be COMPLETELY DEAD as of late 2005. Even the forum went south, and this thing is still awfully feature shy and more flash than function. For me this is still not all that stable and with no work being done, it isn't going to get better. I'll stick to Azureus which although a bit bloated, gets the job of downloading done fast. It has WRONGLY been said Azureus is somehow not free or has advertising! Asureus 3.x with the VUSE GUI has advertising, but it's ALL still FREE and OPEN SOURCE. Vuse (zudeo) content may have DRM, but the GUI can be turned off to leave Azureus working and behaving like 2.x versions and all code is still under the GPL and actively developed. NOTE: I HAVE ZIPPO TO DO WITH THE AZUREUS PROJECT. I was disturbed when VUSE showed up when i upgraded a few days ago. I simply found the details in the WIKI, including how to turn Vuse off. .

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This is great... Transmission Tomato Azureus Been there. This is, by far, the best torrent client.

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By the way... I forgot to place a rating... A++ d;-))

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Didn't crash for 3 or 4 nights (and days)! In my configuration it is stable as a rock! And it really works fine. With other clients I often see that u/l and d/l rates decrease (to zero) and only a restart of those programs helps. Tomato Torrent doesn't work with multi file downloads (a 100 files in one torrent) and Azureus is nothing more than a big advertisment show... :-( The only free bittorrent client that works really good for me is Bits on Wheels! I like the statistics and the file view in it!

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Crashes OS X if left on overnight. Reproducable.

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Amazing! I'm downloading at 450K,, where az topped out for me at around 70, but usually around 20k. Swarm view is awesome. Kudos, kudos kudos!

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This is a great tool, but I am waiting for a long time for an universal release.. And I guess, I am waiting for nothing.

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Well, it's alright compared to others. It crashes when you got a lot of files going in it. When you go to stop one file, it stops the one above it, and if you do this a few times in a long list, it just up and crashes. This behavior is very consistent. Hasn't been updated in a LONG time and needs to be. Could stand to have the ability to download individual files within a torrent, badly needs that feature.

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Best mac Bittorrent Client! One would think with all of the wonderful interface elements that this would be a resource hog. NOT AT ALL! Extremely low memory/process usage even through rosetta! I'm impressed and will never use another client. Can't wait for the Universal Binary version!

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I am absolutely blown away. Best BitTorrent client for Mac OS X, hands down. The 3D Swarm and Pieces views are impressive; Gives you all the information you could ever need at your finger tips, Great performance, very stable, dosen't crash or seem to have memory leak issues, like some other clients. Now we just need a Universal version for our MacTel brethren.

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great app that shows so many nice details of what's going on with the torrents you're downloading/uploading.

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Greates Torrent Client for the Mac out there! less cpu usage the all the others - and much more infos for the torrent files. believe me, i tried them all - this is the BEST111

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THIS IS SO COOL. DOWNLOADING WITH LIKE 140KBS! Thank you developer!

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Great great app, really my fav. torrent client on OS X, any information on a Universal update? Really looking forward to it.

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This is by far the best bit torrent client for Mac OS X. I hope the universal binary gets released soon.

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By far the best BT client on the Mac. I was using Transmission because it's a universal binary, but took the hit with Rosetta to switch back to BOW. It's that good.

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This cool app, but get my Powerbook titanium to odd. :(

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this is my favorite and chosen client. native in cocoa. i find it fast and simple to use. but the killer feature is the 3d visualization of the torrent environment: a huge help in understanding how torrents work and how you're interacting with your peers and seeders. I wish it had more features though. I hope some more updates are on the way.

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I agree, this is the best I have used. Thanks Nicolas Berloquin!

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Great app! I tried all the torrent clients...this is the best so far!

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This app runs for only 20 mins before it freezes. It struggles to cope with 3-4 simultanious downloads. Freezes require a 'force quit' & restart everytime, meaning I loose my upload credits/ratings etc. Needs to be more reliable. Other than that, it has potential.

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By far the best client out there - it is fast, it has a LOT of features you won't find anywhere else and best of all: it's free! Since it reports all the stats properly to the tracker (at least in my case), Bits of wheels is my first choice when it comes to sharing torrents. But beware: downloading and uploading can become very addicting, since BoW has by far the most exciting statusbar options I've ever seen (the 3D wheel ist just one of them). It's just a little feature that I miss within BoW: The possibility to prevent clients with bad hash checks from further uploading - This can lead to quite huge amounts of waste of bandwith and time in worst case... Therefore BoW gets an overall 5 star rating from me ecxept for stability. ...and a big THANX for developing this program for free - keep up the good work! Sonofwilmot

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It would be nice if it let you set a default "Save to" folder.

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Please add "open folder" with torrents

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"You and several other people are having trouble finishing torrents. It's always the exact same byte count no matter which one, so apparently BOW is buggy. I just thought I'd give you warning, since you show up in my logs when BOW misbehaves." That's the message I got off the admin of the site I use telling me they're banning BOW again... aaaaaaargh! Bits On Wheels is by far the best client out there - can you please fix it?

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I'd like to add something. Instead of one global bandwidth and peer settings that you offer in preferences, it would be logical to follow this with implementing a bandwidth setting and peer selection on an individual torrent basis Thanks

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THANK YOU! Since I ventured to try this app earlier today, I have deleted both Tomato Torrent and Transmission. Bits has allowed me to finally download files that were sitting idly or with errors on those previous apps for well over a week. Bits on Wheels is now my exclusive bittorrent client; it's fast, it's stable, it's OS native, and it looks nice. Thanks. One suggestion though: change the image you use for the "screenshot"--it's deceiving. I've previously been dissuaded from trying this app because I was inaccurately led to believe it was some stupid 3D bittorent client that is all about style and not substance. Boy was I wrong, but I now wish that the screenshot was of the actual business end of the app, not just one of its many features.

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i would love to use yhis torrentclient, since azureus uses too much cpu, but this one dosn´t work on the closed torrentcommunitys where im a member, i either get an error reply or a "client is banned" reply.. too bad. Is this gonna change or what?

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This is a great piece of software. I love it ,really , very clean and easy to use, kinda customizable too . :) Very very stable under tiger, I really recomend this app :)

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BoW appears to hang easilly under Panther (only). I'm working on a fix. Tiger is fine though...

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I'd like to thank everyone who reviewed this app. All those nice comments are really comforting, really. It means I'm not working for nothing. And for those who complain about the default folder, it will be in the todo list for 1.0.7. One word about the low ping rate when bow is running. My guess is that you set the upload limit a bit too high, so your upload is saturated and pings take more time to come back. Try reducing the upload and see what happens. (1-2KB might do it). thanks again to you all ^_^

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All these months and no option to set a default folder?

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Is anyone else getting really high network latency when running this app? If I ping apple.com while BoW is running, my response times are usually ~2000ms. If I quit BoW, they drop off to a more acceptable ~90ms. If I run the 'regular' BitTorrent client (4.1.2), my ping times don't go up much if at all. I love this app, but that kind of latency makes other network activity a real drag. Developer, any ideas?

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Not bad. Far too complicated and cluttered window for my liking. More information than I would need. Also for some reason download speeds are slow. Ok, the 3d rendering is nice.....but come on, get the basics right before making pretty displays. I think I'll stick to azureus for now....simple, clean, INTUITIVE and does the job FAST!

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I love this application. It is a very functional and very good-looking client. However, I've found that 1.0.5 is less stable than 1.0.3 was. (I'm running Panther.) Just a caveat for anyone looking to upgrade.

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I have still hope for this program. Tomato is too simple and Azureus is terrible complicated. For very large files, Azureus is unfortunately the best with the ability of downloading any file with priority management. Apart from that, Azureus has always quicker download rates than any other bittorent program. But as I said, BoW has got the best interface and still in development.

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great torrent program. i would like the option to select the files i'm downloading- for batch torrents. i used to use bitcomet on windows and the best thing was that you can actually choose what files you want to download. this gives more flexibility to the user. other than that..great work. keep it up.

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Thank-you for a very good alternative! I have had to switch from my standards (azureus and bit torrent) for a number of reasons; regardless I did not have much hope for a while, since, they had performed well until serious flaws revealed themselves, and nothing else seemed to offer good peformance with reasonable options. Until now. This is the nicest "little" torrent app out there right now. I suggest people give it a chance and support it's development. And please, don't demand it become bloatware!

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Very nice, but one feature I'd like to see added is the option to automatically move completed downloads to a different folder. Preferably the folder to move to would be settable on a per torrent basis, or perhaps dependent on the kind of download. Such a feature would allow for automated conversion of downloaded video for the iPod. The program MoviesForMyPod (previously MoviesToGo) has a watch folder option, so I'd want Bits to put completed video downloads into its watch folder, which would result in them then being automatically converted into iPod compatible format. Azureus does this, of course, but Azureus is so, so painfully slow. Not to mention the incredibly klunky interface. So I'd really like to use Bits on Wheels or Transmission, but neither has this auto-moving capability.

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Please add more settings like azureus.

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I love the new look!

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Well ... this client got some potential. It sure does feel light and simple which is a good thing. Although, I do have its beef of it being Free-as-in-Beer instead Free-as-in-Speech like many other BitTorrent clients but I don't think it's a big issue. Keep up the good work!

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This program is great I always wanted someone to create a cocoa version of azureus but this would do just fine. Low cpu usage, low memory usage, mac os x style interface. It does have a few bugs which can be worked out so people who complain or having problems just remove the preference file and restart that's all it takes.

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to 1(worst) : Please try version 1.0.2. This could come from an incompatibility problem with previous versions' cache. I'd be very interested in your crash log, please email it to me at: support AT bitsonwheels.com . I can give you directions in case you don't know how to locate it. thanks.

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it blows up when you try to remove a torrent....

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I dont know what is the problem, but using other torrents clients like Transmission ou Azureus i get the best download rates up to 100-200k, with BOW i get less than 50k(50k when im lucky).. I have a port fowarding for that. Somebody knows what is the problem? .. But the program looks very great.

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fast (low cpu usage!) , Great, very stable und easy programm. Its easy to use - but gives all information about the state of all actions. Unique feature: 3D Show of actions, shows new users how .torrent works . A picture says more than a lot of words.

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Hmm. it opens fine, and looks great. But opening a torrent results in a "You have been logged trying to cheat". I can only assume thats from the tracker, so what is BoW doing, that is making it think i'm cheating? Back to Transmission until this is fixed.

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if you go to there website you will notice they deleted version 1 and made an update to 1.01 to fix the problem with pather users.

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BoW has just been updated for Panther users. Please download version 1.0.1

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Download 170 MB file Transmission 0.3 - DL approx. 140 KB/S - UL approx. 57 KB/S - ETA approx. 17 minutes Bits On Wheels 1.0 - DL 0 KB/S - UL 0 KB/S - ETA Forever

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it launch but nothig happens on 10.3.9 hm......

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Awsome app! I love all the info you can get about your torrent and the status, and the 3D view is cool too. The interface could be a little simpler though.

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works with oink finally...

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Please fix this: Bits on Wheels comes up as a web browser to Trackers, when I connect they think I'm cheating and do not allow me to dl anything (such as suse, etc).. I love bits on wheels and hate the regular client.. Please fix this in the next version so i can switch back

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How do you mean it doesn't work on 10.4.2 ? I'm constantly use BOT 1.0PR1.4 with the last 10.4.2 update and is works flawlessly, maybe is something on your system, you could trash preferences and BOT's folder under Library and see if it works.

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This must be the most pleasant - looking bit torrent client on the mac. Pity it doesn´t work anymore on MacOS 10.4.2 ...

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Constant spinning beachball on 10.4.2. Looks acessible, in formative and functional, but has a major bug.

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This program is amazing. It takes up very little processor time, 40-50MB of RAM when very busy, is very stable, and loves to do what it does. Very easy to use, simple, intuitive interface. I can stare at the 3D Swarm for hours. It's an interesting thing to watch. Comprehensive and simple (but complete) preferences, including max upload rate, max uploade rate settings for new torrents, max up and down connections, easy file lists, and so on. This has, with one use, become the only torrent client I'll ever need. Beautiful, stable, simple, light.. this one's a winner. You owe yourself to give it a try if you ever, even ONCE, want to use Bit Torrent. You definitely can't beat the price. fabian@stny.rr.com

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looks pretty good, modern and better interface.

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Great interface, very low CPU usage. Superb app most of the time but suffers from the spinny beachball; tends to freeze up randomly (running Tiger).

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This program is great! For some reason, it connects to more peers and has faster downloads for me than Azureus does. The only things better about Azureus than this are 1. Azureus splits up seeding files and downloading files into two windows 2. Azureus has that little config that tells you if your port is open. SO if you know how to forward ports already or don't need to, and if you don't mind the seeds and downloads in the same window, then Bits on Wheels is your program. :)

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While this works very well on Tiger most of the time, it seems to freeze up at random. No data moving, no response to the mouse, and tagged as "Not responding" in the Force Quit Applications dialog. It doesn't happen very often, but seems to be more frequent as you use it more.

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This is by far the best torrent client I have found for Mac OS X. BitTorrent, the most popular client has less features and uses MORE CPU. I think that the interface could be improved, it uses a lot of screen space at the moment - But its not a major problem. This program gives you lots of details on torrent files, such as the pieces completed, files within the torrent, and an interesting "3D Swarm" feature. The price is right, there are plenty of features, its fast and doesn't use a lot of CPU ! I recommend this to any serious torrent user. Well done to the developer, Keep up this great work!

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Simply awesome! Everything you need in one window. Super low CPU usage... which is a MAJOR factor for me. Two thumbs up... way up!

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Yes it is a stupid question. To go widowless, just hide it. To hide all open windows in an application (including any toolbars or panels), choose the Hide command from the application menu.

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Simply perfect !!! The best Torent-Application ! Better then Azureus, Bittorrent etc. The CPU-Usage ist not over 5% .. Great ! I use a iMac G4/1GHz/768MB Ram/OSX 10.4.1

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Interesting, but it seems to have a real problem. Maybe it's just me. I found that torrents would come to perhaps 97% and then die. The upload would keep on going, but the download would drop to nothing. I don't know if it's a hash failure problem (not sure why it would be-the download is zero, so there's no data coming in so...) or what. I look at the 3D view and 100% of the seeds and all but a couple peers are in the red zone. If it happened with just one torrent, I could tolerate it. But it's happened with every torrent I've tried. Oh well, back to Azureus.

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this version is so much better than previous ones...no crashes (yet), and the cpu usage is great. BitTorrent uses 50-80%, this only uses 20-30%. im sticking with bits on wheels. give me some color preference settings and ill be all set.

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Takes too long to connect and find peers. Azureus found more seeders/peers for me in 60 seconds than Bits on Wheels could find in an hour.

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I want to use this application, but I see also some files appear (what I want to download) on my boot (home) partition. I don't like those files on my boot partition, why are they there, and why are they not on the partition were the application is.

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great app!!! thanks :-) i using only bits on wheels.

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Bits on Wheels is the best BitTorrent client fot MacOS X. Fast and Free. Great work.

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GREAT PROGRAM! does it support trackerless torrents, or is that a stupid question g4howie@mac.com

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Awesome client, downloads torrents quick and has a beautiful user interface. Frequently gets stuck for many hours waiting on the last peice of a torrent. For example my last download sat at 99.9% with 512KB to finish for about 15 hours, I stopped and restarted it a few times over that period, then gave up and used Tomato Torrent to finish up, which took 47seconds. Once this and the occasional crashes that happen are fixed I'll have no need for a backup client on my system.

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Loved the previous versions, but PR1.3 and PR1.4 (or whatever the two most recent versions were) randomly freeze on me, especially when clicking on different torrents in the list. Using Mac OS X 10.3.9 on a G4/400.

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to developer.... just a little suggestion... many times i use the "update" button to sync my download with the tracker server, but the "remove" button is soooooo close and, in some cases, i push this button and my current selected torrent simply dissapear from the GUI... maybe a little "are you sure to remove this torrent?" warning window will be great!! ...and we have the opportunity to "cancel"... THANX

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Even with Version before the CPU usage was very little. Bittorrent uses more and has not so great visualisation (3D Swarm). Bittorrent uses up to 80% CPU at the first 20 Sec of start. This app is much faster at startup and little faster at work. GREAT APP !!!

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Ok! so faster downloads when i set a higher upload rate ,whats the ideal upload rate? the swarm ,the swarm, ive been hipmotized,newbie.

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This version crashed and burned on startup on my PB 12" with 10.4.1. Not good...

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In my opinion, this is hands down the best torrent client for the Mac. Highly recommended.

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2 features needed to make me switch from azureus: 1. ability to set download limit 2. watch a folder for .torrent files and open/start them when found.

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OMFG! Where is the nice icon? No, no, you won't replace the big wheel with this stupid cube for me! Seriously, why?

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Well, as I posted earlier today, the previous version released earlier today worked fine on my 900MHz G3 iBook (10.3.9) This newer version also works fine.

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won't work on tiger 10.4.1

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Works on my iBook, OS X 10.3.9 First thing I did was change the icon back to the tire... to each his own.

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GORGEOUS new icon. Too bad the program won't load. Bounces once in my dock and that's it. Tiger, 10.4.1

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Stopped working after I installed Tiger. Does not work with Tiger?

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Works fine, even on new Tiger 10.4 :D i use it al the time, i read about it in MacFan magazine, i like the 3D stuff to if u wanna see it in a video go to, http://darkraver.xn-host.com/movies/bitsonwheels.mov Cya

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Works perfectly fine for me under OS X 10.4 (Build 8A428).

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Great client. Very clean interface. Runs without problems on 10.3.9

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Cool App in 10.3. I like the 3D view alot, although its got some perspective issues. But, doesn't matter now, as this app doesn't work under 10.4, which means I'm stuck using Tomato Torrent. :-(

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I can't resume downloads if I close Bits On Wheels and reopen it. It just don't want to open the .torrent files.

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Finally someone has stepped up and given us an excellent torrent application, a sensible layout, great features and without python underneath. This will surely become the most popular client. Awesome, Keep up the fantastic work.

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Best Bittorrent client for os x. gives organized view of all torrents and relevent information about transfers. Thanks for the great software.

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