Soo Slow..

[jer446]

I have never bothers downloading torrents on my mac because i could never seem to get them working properly. I have transmission installed, but any torrent i download seems to average about 25kb.. When i go on my windows computer, i will see average speeds of 200kb. No matter what tracker i use, i will never see those speeds in transmission.

I opened the port 51413 for transmission, it says port opened, but the second dot is red, error mapping port i believe.

How do i fix this?
Is this the reason for my slow speeds?
Should I switch to a different torrent program?

I never opened any specific ports for my windows computer, so i do not understand why i would have much faster speeds on that.

 

[Mydel]

I dont know what could be a source of your problem. I can get over 3 MB/sec with transmission. Its hard for me to compare to Windows machines cos I've never owned one but however Transmission has its problems, its very decent application.
Are you using wireless router? You need to forward the port on the router. Check out other threads for details.

 

[jer446]

i am hard wired into my netgear router. I forwarded port 51413 but am still getting the error mapping port message.

 

[aaronw1986]

I tried Transmission, and it always seemed slow to me too. Azurues runs great though.

 

[Mydel]

Did you forward that port on the router? What version of Transmission are you using?

 

[jer446]

Yes I forwarded the port. It says port is opened with the green light, but it says error mapping port.

 

[ebel3003]

You've already forwarded the proper port to your computer, so you can turn off Automatic port mapping. See if this will return a green dot and "Port is open". If not, are you running any software firewalls? Perhaps the OS firewall is enabled?

Also consider running a nightly build of Transmission. There are quite a few supposed improvements over the last "Stable" build, particularly pertaining to it's networking. One fix was actually Transmission incorrectly reporting the port status (Open, Closed, Stealthed).

 

[Eidorian]

i am hard wired into my netgear router. I forwarded port 51413 but am still getting the error mapping port message.

You're still going to need to log into your router and forward the port for Transmission.

Not to mention OS X firewall...