Slow Transmission Speeds.

[Agent-P]

For me it's kind of half and half with uTorrent and Transmission. Sometimes one will work much better than the other. I haven't really found a pattern, but if one is being slow then I just cancel the download and use the other one. FOr whatever reason this seems to work for me even though I'm pretty sure it's not a real solution

 

[LucasLand]

i had the same problem and discovered the solution and the fix was real easy. In my case I use a VPN. In my VPN settings I had to make sure that "port forwarding" was selected, direct VPN to a canada server and then restart mac. I then hovered mouse over the VPN icon at top of desktop where it showed me the port number. I then inputed port number into transmission and BAM the light turned green.

I didn't have to touch any other settings in transmission or router settings

 

[fhall1]

foofan....your solution has nothing to do with the original issue of sluggish speeds. If you're using specific ports through a VPN and you don't have those ports enabled you won't get slow speeds sometimes, you'll get NO data throughput at all.

 

[LucasLand]

actually i was getting very slow speeds, thats why i started looking into a solution. i thought it had to do with router/network settings. while reading other peoples posts, i noticed some said they used a VPN. that made me think it was my VPN too. I hadn't thought of that. I then searched forums for transmission & vpn. Thats where I discovered the issue of not enabling port forwarding in my VPN account, which wasn't selected when i checked my settings. I then followed the VPN's instructions regarding setup, and bam transmission now shows a green light,when it didn't with all the other possible solutions i read about.

 

[fhall1]

You had something else going on if you had "slow" speeds or your configuration of the VPN or Transmission wasn't what you thought it was. If a port needs to be open and it's not (or not forwarded), you get NO data, not a little bit of data or data that comes through slowly once in a while. It was using an open port somewhere if you received any data.

 

[LucasLand]

bottom line is this. the issue was transmission said port is closed with a red light. I never got it to change until i activated port forwarding in VPN settings and inputed the port number from VPN into transmission

 

[DoFoT9]

You had something else going on if you had "slow" speeds or your configuration of the VPN or Transmission wasn't what you thought it was. If a port needs to be open and it's not (or not forwarded), you get NO data, not a little bit of data or data that comes through slowly once in a while. It was using an open port somewhere if you received any data.

FWIW (completely ignoring the VPN conversation, as that is something entirely different) - slow speeds are usually due to the very obvious, the seeders/leechers are rather far away, and not able to seed to you at blazingly fast speeds.

Through a VPN seems kind of silly, all that additional packet overhead.