uTorrent on iMac G5 (PPC)

Hi!!

Yesterday I arrived in the mail public beta of uTorrent on the site shows that only

for intel, we'll be in, the system identifies as the Universal Binary but not download

anything, shows the seed and peer present but did not connect to any of them.

I apologize for my bad English,

translation by google (ehehehe!)

TNX!!!

ps: tested uTorrent 0.9.0 (13481) on iMac G5 1800Mhz 2000MB ram - OSX 10.5.4

Yes, PPC build is much less stable than Intel. We have reports of it working on some machines and reports of it not working on some machines. Trying to figure out what is common among PPC that don't work.

well!

how can I help you?

What information do you need?

It would be helpful to know the exact os version and hardware overview for the machines that have the problem.

That can be gotten via apple menu "About this mac" and then clicking "More info" button and copy&paste "Hardware Overview" part. E.g. my machine info is:

Model Name: MacBook

Model Identifier: MacBook5,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 2.4 GHz

Number Of Processors: 1

Total Number Of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Boot ROM Version: MB51.0073.B02

SMC Version: 1.32f6

Hardware Overview:

Model Name: iMac G5

Model Identifier: PowerMac8,1

Processor Name: PowerPC G5 (3.0)

Processor Speed: 1.8 GHz

Number Of CPUs: 1

L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB

Memory: 2 GB

Bus Speed: 600 MHz

Boot ROM Version: 5.2.2f4

Serial Number: XXXXXXXXXXX

Hi!

I wrote from Mexico, my mac computer it's a Power Mac G4 "Mirrored Drive Doors" (MDD), with the next hardware overview:

Model Name: Power Mac G4

Model Identifier: PowerMac3,6

Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (3.2)

Processor Speed: 1.25 GHz

Number Of CPUs: 2

L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB

L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 167 MHz

Boot ROM Version: 4.4.8f2

Hope this help to get a more functional utorrent mac application. Thanks for bring this app to our favorite OS. Saludos!

Model Name: PowerBook G4 15"

Model Identifier: PowerBook5,8

Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (1.5)

Processor Speed: 1.67 GHz

Number Of CPUs: 1

L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 167 MHz

Boot ROM Version: 4.9.6f0

Serial Number: WxxxxxxxxxxZ (edited)

Sudden Motion Sensor:

State: Enabled

Works on this G4 every thing but Encryption, found a bug with Encryption, if its on it disconnects peers that are only leeching from me so can't seed.

OS: 10.5.5

Model Name: Power Mac G4 (Digital Audio)

Model Identifier: PowerMac3,4

Processor Name: PowerPC G4 (3.3)

Processor Speed: 1.47 GHz

Number Of CPUs: 1

L2 Cache (per CPU): 256 KB

L3 Cache (per CPU): 2 MB

Memory: 1 GB

Bus Speed: 133 MHz

Boot ROM Version: 4.2.8f1

After starting uTorrent and adding some torrent files for download, download is not starting. uTorrent is showing all info about those torrents: number of seeds, number od peers, peers info, number of files, size of files... So it seems like everything is OK, but download is just not starting at all. Info about Tracker is changing every two seconds between http and udp.

This is example for torrent from piratebay:

Tracker: udp://tracker.thepiratebay.org:80/announce

and then

Tracker: http://tracker.thepiratebay.org/announce

and over and over again every two seconds...

Update:

I have manage to get some torrents begin download after I turned on "Automatically map port (using NAT-PMP or UPnP)" in Network options. Yellow indicator on the bottom right of uTorrent became green after that.

uTorrent is not rembering this preference when I quit uTorrent, so I have to turn it on every time I start it.

Transfer speed is very slow and number of connections with peers/seeds isn't comparable with Vuze or Transmission.

Hardware Overview:

Machine Name: PowerBook G4 15"

Machine Model: PowerBook5,4

CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.1)

Number Of CPUs: 1

CPU Speed: 1.5 GHz

L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB

Memory: 2 GB

Bus Speed: 167 MHz

Boot ROM Version: 4.8.6f0

uTorrent won't even open, it pops up and down on the dock for a second or two then closes. Hope this helps, I really hate azureus since it switched to Vuze, so sluggish and system intensive.

Version 0.9.0.2 (13691)

shows the seed and peer present but did not connect to any of them :°°

Howdy, just downloaded 0.9.0.2... it bounces once in the dock but doesn't run.

Hardware Overview:

Machine Name: iMac G5

Machine Model: PowerMac12,1

CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.1)

Number Of CPUs: 1

CPU Speed: 2.1 GHz

L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB

Memory: 512 MB

Bus Speed: 700 MHz

Boot ROM Version: 5.2.6f1

BitTorrent works OK for me, taking less than 10% CPU for 3 simultaneous downloads for example, was just looking at the alternatives... thanks for bring uTorrent to the Mac OS.

Update >>> Forgot to mention, running 10.4.11.

-Rick

GUYS, Tiger support is not there yet. If you are running Tiger, then you shouldn't expect it to work at all. µTorrent Mac currently supports Leopard only, though Tiger support is being worked on.