The popular torrent client Transmission is free software that was originally created to install and work on computers with Linux (including Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian GNU/Linux, Rosa Linux and Linux Mint) installed. If you use Ubuntu, the program is installed in the system as a torrent client by default. Transmission also works successfully on Mac. You can find client versions developed for Android, Symbian and iOS on the Transmission website. Since the client is also available for Windows, we can talk about the versatility, that is, the cross-platform nature of the program.
Transmission Features
An easy and fast torrent client allows you to download any content available on torrent trackers: music, movies, TV series, software, games, manuals, books and audio books, OS and other files in the formats provided by the author - who uploaded the content to the torrent tracker.
How do I install Transmission?
Before you download the program, choose the version of Transmission that is available for your operating system: Linux, Mac or Windows. After downloading the program, unzip it and follow the "Installer" prompts.
Program Warnings
The first time you run the program, it warns you that the Transmission torrent client is built on exchanging information. By downloading files from the Internet, you automatically help in sharing the same information with other Transmission users. You must allow the client to work in the Firewall.
Advantages of Transmission
- Available in English;
- easy to use - interface allows you to understand functions of a torrent-program even if you are a beginner in this kind of software;
- "eats up very few system resources;
- available on 64-bit systems;
- shows the file download speed;
- user can limit the download and upload speed at his own discretion;
- after the end of the download Transmission continues to participate in the distribution of previously downloaded content;
- if you do not want to participate in the distribution, stop the process or just exit the program;
- convenient settings allow you to "grab" links from certain directories and add them to Transmission for further file download;
- you can get the fastest possible file download speed by customizing the program;
- user chooses the folder for downloading torrent files and downloaded content by himself.
