[Kde-nonlinux] Bittorrent. Where's the torrent?

[Andrew Hunter]

John Velman wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:59:43PM +0000, Andrew Hunter wrote:
>> John Velman wrote:
>>> I want to get KDE 4 native for OX X (leaopard, imac).  Have never used
>>> bitttorrent before, but since this seems to be the only way to get kde 4
>>> for mac, I decided to try.
>>>
>>> I installed Tomato as the bittorrent client.
> 
>> Use transmission, Tomato is rotten.
> 
> Andrew,
> 
> Well, you were certainly right about that!  I got transmission, installed,
> and restarted the download.  It's humming along with ~200K download rate.
> and after only a very few minuts I have ~ 4% downloaded, and a 2hr24min
> prediction.  
> 
> This is more like it.
> 
> By the way, I through my ignorance haven't 'opened my ports' yet.
> Transmission doesn't seem to be in the list of applications in
> portforward.com, and the default instructions are for tiger, not leopard,
> which seems to have a somewhat different set of windows and menus.  

Port forwarding has to do with the router, not the application.

Transmission supports, and is enabled OOTB, uPnP (and Apple's version of 
the protocol) which will automatically open and close ports as nessicary 
if your router also has it enabled. It appears that it does.

> 
> Anyway, at this rate I withdraw all of my previous rant!

No problem :)

> 
> Thanks!
> 
> John Velman
> 
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