Recently, I read that it was estimated that BitTorrent downloads now comprise some 30% of the Internet’s entire bandwidth. Sadly, I’m not the only person I heard who experience this same frustrating lack of support. I won’t tell you not to buy the program because, over-all, its a beauty, but I will tell you, that if you do purchase XTorrent, please back up your product key because if you lose it, well, don’t expect any type of support in getting it back! Yes, they have an automatic email verification system set-up, but if you move to a new ISP, as did I, well, you’re on your own. Otherwise, my hard-earned $15 purchase would have been wasted! Fortunately for me, I did, by chance, find my password. Not a pleasant experience to say the least. After sending what seems like millions of email requests for assistance, not one was ever answered! I was left on my own. Watanabe’s mastery of programming does not match his after purchased support. With Acquisition, I learned, after losing my product key, was that Mr. One of these other cons is the support, or should I say lack of support, that I have received personally in the past from its developer. are all very compelling indeed, but the price and the few other cons really trouble me. XTorrent’s beautiful interface, ease of searching, downloading, adding RSS torrentcasts and subscriptions, etc. However, if you only use BitTorrent occasionally, I can’t see any justification for its purchase, especially considering its high price and all of the other great OS X Torrents alternatives out there, and free ones at that. Despite the rough edges XTorrent, over all, like his other programs, are wonderful to use and of very high and professional quality. We have to wait until the first Beta is released to actually compare Xtorrent’s features and performance to the currently available Mac OSX clients.Still another downside to XTorrent is that if you do not register the program it will, within about an hour of use, throttle itself, thus limiting your bandwidth download speed to a measly 10k and it adds even more frustration by then constantly pestering you with repeated ‘Nag’ notices to pay up!Īnother drawback of Xtorrent is that its core is made up from the libtransmission library, which is known to hammer trackers, which bans XTorrent from an ever increasing number of them, making it rather useless, for example, if your a member of Oink.ĭavid Watanabe is an excellent programmer and I highly recommend that you download XTorrent and try it out, if you’re into such things. Definitely a refreshing look, compared to most BitTorrent clients out there. The User Interface is like that of Acquisition, David Watanabe’s other (paid) filesharing application by. Notice the “progress square” instead of the well known progress bar.Ĭall it BT Client 2.0 or whatever you like, but the UI of Xtorrent is different from most BitTorrent clients we have right now. Just add the search url of, , or any tracker you like.Ī look at xTorrent’s interface while downloading. You can add a search tab for your favorite tracker. Search and download torrents without web browser A public Beta will probably available in a few weeks. Here are some features and screenshots ( thanks). But there’s no doubt that it looks great. It is unsure if the application will be free, and if not, how much it will cost. I stumbled upon some prerelease screenshots of Xtorrent over at phillryu. Unlike other BitTorrent clients, Xtorrent allows you to browse, download and search for torrents without using a web browser. Xtorrent is a new BitTorrent client for Mac OSX.
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