![]() 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. 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.
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