How to increase Transmission speed?

Have you properly set up port forwarding?

There probably aren't any "seeds" (people who have the entire file and are uploading it to others). I have a file in Azureus (another torrent client) that has not been downloading for about three weeks because there are no seeds.

If you're new to this, have you made sure the torrent you want actually has seeds?

I just kind of picked a port and mapped it in the router. As an example, I think I'm using 56001 or something like that. Just make sure that you've assigned an IP for yourself as opposed to getting one assigned through DHCP. I think I've read that some ports are banned but I really don't know too much about that.

I think I've always had an error when it comes to "automatically mapping" the port. Actually, it got to the point where I started using azureus instead. Did you assign yourself an IP address, etc.?

I do have uPnP turned on for other things but I just mapped the port myself.

Sweet, yeah, thanks for the SS Eidorian. I don't have my mbp with me at work and I'm not the best at descriptive responses. .fred, it should look like that.

.fred said:

Hey.

Is there a way to just start my Transmission download? Its been at 0 bytes for a while now.

Im new to this, do i have to configure anything?

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Don't use Transmission. It's blocked by a lot of torrent trackers.

wightstraker said:

Don't use Transmission. It's blocked by a lot of torrent trackers.

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QFT

Get Azureus, its a much BETTER program with more features

wightstraker said:

Don't use Transmission. It's blocked by a lot of torrent trackers.

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This is not true. There are very few where it's blocked.

wightstraker said:

Don't use Transmission. It's blocked by a lot of torrent trackers.

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We're not talking about BitComet here...

Considering Transmission resolved most of this back in 0.71.

.fred said:

Hey, Eldorian!

I don't seem to have the connection pane? And also, when i use that port on yours, it sys port is stealth?

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It's the preferences for Transmision. I had to forward the port on my router.

.fred said:

Could you guide me on that? Im really stuck here..

Thanks,eldorian.

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Port Foward has guides for a significant number of routers.

You'll just need to pick a port in Transmission and forward it on your router.

.fred said:

Sorry, but could you give me a step by step guide?

I dont know anything about forwarding and all..

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I'm going to hand this off to someone else...

If you check the manufacturers website and look for your model number it should/may provide a step-by-step for port forwarding. It's really not difficult to do but explaining it is another matter. Don't take that the wrong way, basically I just don't feel confident in my "teaching" abilities.

Eidorian said:

I do have uPnP turned on for other things but I just mapped the port myself.

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What version of Transmission are you on? I don't have half the settings on that screenshot..

Kilamite said:

What version of Transmission are you on? I don't have half the settings on that screenshot..

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I run the Transmission nightlies.