>TorrentFreak spoke with Transmission developer Mike Gelfand, who’s in charge of the Windows project. He tells us that a lot of progress has been made in recent months and that the official Windows release will be added to the download page after the next version comes out.
>The big question is, however, why Windows and why now?
>Mike explains that the idea came from a conversation he had with Transmission developer Jordan Lee, who noted that the lack of Windows support was the “biggest missing feature.”
>“Since then I saw many people showing up either willing to use Transmission on Windows since they already use it on another platform, or looking for an alternative to their current BitTorrent client on Windows for this or that reason,” Mike notes.
>Since the original developers had little experience with Windows coding, Mike decided to take on Jordan’s proposal and join this part of the project.
>On the one hand, the goal was to make Transmission’s “fast, easy and free” experience available to Windows users. Secondly, an official release simplifies life for people maintaining unofficial forks.
>And so, after several months of active development, Transmission for Windows arrived. Thus far the release hasn’t been actively promoted, but it has been picked up by Ghacks and a few other places already.
>Mike stresses that the project is still in active development and that more changes and features are likely to be introduced in the near future. Thus far, it is pretty much a copy of the core Transmission client without any additional features.
>“The only difference right now is that it runs on Windows. We’ll see how it goes, some features could be added later on which are specific to Windows and aren’t needed on other platforms,” he says.
https://torrentfreak.com/transmission-releases-long-awaited-bittorrent-client-for-windows-160327/
Time to finally get rid of qStalledmeme, /g/!
Please don't tell me you're still stuck on uBotnet.
>>53729113
Do they include the ransomware feature from OS X?
Why would you get rid of the superior qbittorrent for this shit when this shit just gave other OSes ransomware?
>>53729124
The site was hacked with a 0-day exploit and the link for Mac users was changed to a download with ransomware for Mac.
The client itself is unaffected.
>>53729113
I'm stuck on an ancient uTorrent version from before it became uBotnet.
How does Transmission handle running large amounts of torrents? Meaning tens of thousands or more?
>>53729293
I only run 1100 and it runs fine for me.
>>53729293
>tens of thousands or more?
genuinely why?
>>53729336
To support leechers like you, dummy.
>>53729336
Maybe he's seeding many small albums for a private tracker.
Happy about these news btw, transmission is my favorite bt client.
>>53729354
Pretty much this, except they're mostly books.
>torrents
>2016
Why isn't this flawed shit technology that has zero advantage over direct downloads for legal files and has been owned 100% by content owners for illegal ones dead yet?
>>53729401
>zero advantage over direct downloads
DDL goes down all the time, usually because people run a business involving DDL so they can easily be sued into shutdown.
Torrents are powered by the community. Anybody with an internet connection and a Raspberry Pi can torrent.
>>53729342
>leechers like you
imma keepin my ratio around 2, but thanks anyway, im no murrican't so seed is no problem
>>53729425
That's -if- there are seeds. Otherwise the file just doesn't magically download itself.
>>53729425
>DDL for legal files
Reading comprehension is hard, kid.
You know, hosting fucking GNU images on a file server or other DDL that is hosted for people to download freely? That usually also have a fucking torrent that is much slower than the goddamn DDL?
Sigh.
>>53729491
Torrents save a company alot of bandwith and is better for archival purposes
KeRanger
>>53729342
:^)
>>53729612
>relying on peers to deliver a file
Sounds like a good way to discredit yourself.
>archival
When no one is offering the file, there's no archive. It's gone. Learn how torrents even fucking work.
>>53729113
Before I download this shit is it better than deluge?
>>53729719
Depends. Better how?
Also, it's not a stable build. It's a pre-release version that isn't on the homepage yet.
>>53729728
I dunno, I switched to deluge because it just werks and isn't full of adware like utorrent.
What's the diff?
>>53729645
Why would relying on peers discredit a company? Also torrents are more reliable if you have an unstable connection and have better protection against corruption.
Its better for archival purposes because when a company goes down you are still able to DL the file from hundreds of peers
>>53729113
M A L W A R E
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>>53729748
You sound retarded so I'm going to tell you to stay on Deluge.
never had a problem with QT
>>53729775
Evidence?
>>53730180
wat
>Long-awaited
By whom?
Windows already has better-performing clients than the various rehashes of libtorrent+QT freetard shit
>>53730376
>the various rehashes of libtorrent+QT freetard shit
This is not one of them
https://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.92-x64.msi
https://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.92-x86.msi
>>53730392
I used Transmission on my Gahnoo Leenox computer
It was shit and couldn't utilize my first world connection
Different needs, you know. Not everyone is an impoverished American.
>>53730445
Sounds like your tryhard meme distro is too hard for you. I regularly saturate my 100Mbps connection with transmission-daemon running on freebsd.
>>53730656
>I regularly saturate my 100Mbps connection with transmission-daemon running on freebsd.
I do this too on Windows.
>>53730656
>100 Mbps
And why did you think this was somehow relevant to my post?
>first world connection
>>53730690
Don't forget to tilt your fedora while being snarky and vague, to prove your intellectual superiority.
>>53730727
There is nothing vague about it.
Transmission isn't good enough performance-wise to work with first world connections (Gbit).
What's hard to grasp?
how do you move 1000> torrents to the latest meme client?
>>53730753
By hand.
µTorrent 2.2.1
Now fuck off with your inbred ransomware client
>>53729113
I have no issues with Deluge so far.
I'll wait until this is in a stable build to try it out.
>>53730820
Enjoy being MPAA cuck with adware malware spyware bitcoin miner botnet with exploits.
As a complete pleb, the first thing I noticed when I tried transmission after years of µTorrent was that my download rates are consistently all over the place with transmission. I even tried using the same torrent with both clients - either transmission is just being more second by second honest, or it's squirrely as fuck.
>>53730858
REKT
W/ NO RESPEKT
>>53730820
http://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2015-5474/
;^)
>>53730875
Transmission for Windows is still in pre-release, dude. Says so in the article.
>>53729630
Man, I barely seed anything and I've uploaded more than you.
>>53730926
I'm on a mac
im not changing clients again. qbittorrent on windows and rtorrent on linux.
The future is in PicoTorrent.
>>53730858
Those things happened in later versions of µTorrent.
2.2.x is widely accepted by private trackers.
>>53731390
>PicoTorrent.
Another shit client based on libtorrent-rasterbar. Same as Deluge and qBit.
What exactly is Transmission qt if this the real deal?
ive been using transmission on windows for months, why is this news?
>>53731473
It's a 3rd party port. The original devs didn't do a Windows port so some guy made one for himself. I don't think he will continue now that the official one is almost stable.
bullshit, I don't see windows tab on transmisson website whatsoever. another retarded half ass fork for masses
>>53731434
>2.2.x is widely accepted by private trackers.
This means nothing. Trackers don't give a shit if you're infected with malware as long as you seed properly.
µTorrent seeds fine, but it's closed source so you can't rule out even the earliest versions being botnet.
>>53729113
>https://sourceforge.net/projects/trqtw/files/Transmission-Qt/
>Been around for fucking years
Why do we need a windows version when the above has been around for so long?
REEEEEEEEEEEE
DOESN'T WERK.
>>53731626
Are your ports open senpai?
Is encryption set to "forced" rather than "preferred" or something like that?
>>53731632
Default settings.
Compared to utorrent.
>>53729630
>>53730932
You can't afford internet or something?
>>53731657
You may have upnp and that shit enabled in µTorrent.
Try properly opening your ports.
>>53731672
Its also enabled on Transmission Client as well.
>manually having to port forward to get a torrent client to work
>2016
>>53731686
Well I have persoanlly disabled UPnP as I prefer more control, even if it means a bit of manual setup.
It's setup once and forget… Not the end of the world.
>>53731671
>your ratio: 1.29TB / 0.29TB
>my ratio: 4.63TB / 0.53TB
what
>>53731711
polaki
robaki
>>53731564
How did you get on internet if you can't even read?
>He tells us that a lot of progress has been made in recent months and that the official Windows release will be added to the download page after the next version comes out.
>>53731598
because official release > third party port
Didn't Transmission-qt exist?
>>53731564
https://download.transmissionbt.com/files/
https://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.92-x64.msi
https://download.transmissionbt.com/files/transmission-2.92-x86.msi
I recommend set your torrent client following the settings you made on this website
http://infinite-source.de/az/az-calc.html
>>53731716
baka
>>53729124
>superior
Are you being ironic? you need a degree in networking to get qBittorrent to work properly on windows ffs, it's shit and user unfriendly, it took me a month to get my ratio up and it fucked it up in less than a day when I moved from ut 2.2.1 to qbt, this is literally the leechers approved torrent client, because no sane uploader/seeder would use this crap. Transmission-Qt doesn't even let you lower the upload speed limit below 10 kbyte/s, because it was not made with leeching in mind, only leechers recommend qStalled and you must be one of them. People like you are what's ruining p2p, later don't complain when there're no seeds for your half downloaded blacked porn torrents, fagget.
>>53731713
99% of the torrent users don't know how to manually open ports, plus its kind of a chore tbqh. There is also no difference between letting a program open a specific port vs manually doing it.
By not having the ability to open port from client by default, you're limiting the user adoption rate. If the dev's intention is to make it widely used alternative for uTorrent(btw just about every other torrent client on windows can open ports automatically now), it will have to do that too.
I reckon this might be a bug or something.
I just wish they would change the gui or at least make it optionally configurable so it looks like this. transmission default gui is fisher-price tier.
https://davidmoore.github.io/ipfilter/
For the utorrent users, or ipfilter users
stores it in %appdata%/uTorrent/ipfilter.dat
might have to enable ipfilter=true option in advanced option.
>>53731755
Yeah sure. I'm just sharing my own personal setup.
I've used everything form µTorrent and Azureus to Transmission and qBittorrent and I've always used manual port opening in all.
Just feels good man…
>>53731785
retarded snake oil.
>>53731748
>transmission doesn't let you go below 10kb/s
That's actually so that retarded leechers don't set their upload to 0 and then freak out when torrents can't download properly.
>>53731755
>might
it is a bug, someone should report it asap before a new meme is born from this bt client too.
>>53731598
>Why do we need a windows version when the above has been around for so long?
Because it's discontinued.
>>53731755
Wut
I've never once seen a program forward ports on my router. That kind of capability would destroy network security. If you're talking about NAT, say so.
>>53731598
Read the changelog, the dev literally said he will stop updating when the official Transmission for windows is released, I read a while back that the official client is a fork of Transmission-Qt anyway, it's the same thing.
>>53731840
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Play#NAT_traversal
All torrent clients support this, and all home routers sold today.
>>53731729
Not anymore
>>53729630
>>53730899
>opening unknown magnet links
look at this retard and laugh
>>53732500
>using a client that can be pwned like that
>>53732108
Gayyyy
>>53733462
How old are you?
>>53729764
Your first point is correct but your second point is redundancy/contingency which is almost totally unrelated to archiving. I think your getting words mixed up.
Torrents > DDL for most things tho I agree
>>53730747
Not the other guy but desu trying to imply America isn't a first world country failed hard as fuck. Don't try so hard to climb up your own arse hole or you'll keep getting lost
>>53732500
Any page you visit can make you open a link. Don't you know how web sights work?
cancer, who would willingly support windows..
>>53731748
>you need a degree in networking to get qBittorrent to work properly on windows ffs
You just need to be a non-retard to get it working. I seed plenty. The only time you should see "stalled" is when your torrents are starting up.
>>53735994
then share with us mortals the good win config, you faggot
>>53729113
But Transmission has always had a Windows port.
>>53731626
tranSTALLED
#REKT
these threads every day... why?
just accept that uTorrent 2.2.1 is the best.
sad but true.
whats wrong with deluge, been using it for yonks
Oh will I be getting malware now? No ty.
>>53729630
This with a copper 2Mb/512Kb, and the upload its throttled at less than half to not saturate the connection.
When this faggots give me fiber based connection I'll seed more, meanwhile a small contribution its better than nothing, but it looks like you are plain selfish and just don't give a shit, good for you :^)
Does it have RSS and scheduling?
>>53731748
>you need a degree in networking to get qBittorrent to work properly on windows ffs
you are retarded
not bad
still not as pretty as on my macbook
>>53729113
Does that shit support Socks5 proxies now?
>>53729293
It handles those pretty well. I wouldn't really recommend running a torrent client with that many torrents on your main PC, but hey you do you.
it's just transmission-qt without the "qt" in the title
>>53743092
So it doesn't offer socks5..into the trash it goes.. qbittorrent master race
>>53738360
>>53740879
>what is flexget
I wish they shipped ubuntu with deluge...
I'm either retarded or Transmission don't offer file selection from magnets neither scheduling/commands upon completion.
