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    help with Azureus!

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by worldluxer, Jul 23, 2006.

  1. worldluxer

    worldluxer Newbie

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    hi,

    i just downloaded Azureus unversial version on my macbook, however whenever i wanted to download a torrent, it would never show on Azureus, i would have to add it manually. my second question is that i am starting to have really slows speeds on very popular torrents, how would i determine if this is becasue of the torrent or on my side?

    thanks
     
    worldluxer, Jul 23, 2006
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  2. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    At least with Windows (maybe you are running Bootcamp? I don't know of a Mac version of Azareus...) you need to allow Azareus to manage the .torrent extention. If you have not given it that job, then you will have to manually add, and .torrent files do not have the Azareus logo as their icon.

    For speeds, you should make sure that your firewall is not blocking the needed UDP port. Check out the faq at

    http://azureus.sourceforge.net/faq.php#10
     
    Gautam, Jul 23, 2006
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  3. xbandaidx

    xbandaidx Notebook Deity

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    I recommend Transmission as a bit torrent client, it works very very well on OS X.

    http://transmission.m0k.org/

    Plus, Azureus uses java to run. That just makes it blah right off the bat. Having to run something else to run a program is blah, instead use one that will run natively on OS X without having the need to use java. Transmission should work great. It's very simple and intuitive.
     
    xbandaidx, Jul 24, 2006
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