Comments on: Xtorrent 2 Preview Now Available

By: Mullino

Mullino — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:50:10 +0000

Yeah i have to agree with most of the posts. I had version 1.0 and it was OK, not great. So i was excited about this new “improved” version.

Its useless, incredibly slow to find torrents, about 10 different updates have come out in the last few weeks and even when downloads are complete it moves them to my trash.

Thank god i didnt buy the upgrade. Transmission seems the best doesnt have a search feature but hell it works.

By: Claus Reymers

Claus Reymers — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:16:19 +0000

I am using torrent software for the first time. This version of xtorrent 2.0 (v95) is always using 100% of my CPU so my iMac G4 becomes unusable. Also, it takes days to weeks to download larger files. Anyone having the same problem with the CPU usage?

By: Jim

Jim — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 04:00:30 +0000

I didn’t have to pay again, I just entered the activation code from1.0 that was in my old emails

By: Robinhood

Robinhood — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:12:04 +0000

I have been an Xtorrent user for a long time. I started having problems with it in Leopard (don’t recall specifically what version). I recently upgraded to Xtorrent 2.0 and paid full price (again) for Pro. This software is a total joke. DON’T BUY IT! IT DOESN’T WORK. I attempted to download a large file over the weekend. The torrent was part of a very large swarm. I expected things to go quickly. But Xtorrent quickly got bogged down. Soon my entire system became unresponsive. I opened a terminal window and discovered Xtorrent was suck 200% CPU cycles (8-core Mac). I tried downloading the same torrent with FREE Transmission and in less than five minutes I had more data dowloaded with Transmission than I did all weekend on Xtorrent. I want my money back, but as many have already said, Wantanabe doesn’t respond to his paying customers … he just takes their money. Don’t make the same mistake I did.

By: JR

JR — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 04:19:05 +0000

downloaded 2 for free because i had the first one. i have to say the downloads and searches are really fast, some movies are getting 800 kb/s. great app!!!!

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 22:56:18 +0000

I bought version 1 several years ago, and over the course of several OS X updates, version 1 broke. He never explained or made ANY attempt to fix the bugs, didn’t respond to emails, and even deleted comments I made on his blog asking about it.

I’m on Snow Leopard now, on a 2.66 MBP and just downloaded V2 to see what it was like, and it’s insanely fast at searching. Blazing. But… still, I’m not buying it because David was an ass, and I can search for torrents myself for free.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:24:46 +0000

I purchased xtorrent2 and it’s not what I expected. I had much higher expectations, it’s slow and frequently doesn’t download the entire file.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 22:02:29 +0000

People who bought the 1.0 (or 1.1) and opted for the “lifetime upgrades” get 2.0 pro for free. Use your original Activation Code and it’ll work. :)

By: Teslanaut

Teslanaut — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 04:21:00 +0000

I guess he feels that its not very… Utilitarian. I use uTorrent on Windows and Transmission on OS X. Sometimes I prefer what uTorrent does because you can see it as one big statistic like… Thing. Sorry I’m not describing it properly, I just don’t have the words right now haha. If you have a lot of Torrents using Transmission, its kinda hard sorting through them, whereas uTorrent, all the information is right there in a statistic like form. Transmission is minimalistic, hence, you should use it if you’re good at cleaning it up, keeping only a few torrents downloading at a time. uTorrent for more Torrent heavy downloaders.

By: Panamajack

Panamajack — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:56:23 +0000

I second the question; what’s wrong with Transmissions’ UI?