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The Ongoing Bittorrent Client Thread...(Azureus, Transmission, µTorrent, oh my!)
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If you've noticed Transmission showing bandwidth usage even while all torrents are stopped that's the BitTorrent overhead. It's not actually counting toward the totals it takes.
Goodbye to Transmission... for now?
I've been having all kinds of trouble with Transmission for the last month or so. Regardless of what my current upload or download rate is (and even when I have both capped, which I usually do), Transmission has been slowing my Internet connection speed to a crawl. Browsing using Firefox or Safari, checking Mail, etc. barely even works when I have Transmission running. And I'm on a solid 6mbps connection. Anyone else seeing this problem? I've tried rolling back to older versions of Transmission but still have the same problem. About to try Azureus for the first time, which is a shame because Transmission has been great til now!
I've been having all kinds of trouble with Transmission for the last month or so. Regardless of what my current upload or download rate is (and even when I have both capped, which I usually do), Transmission has been slowing my Internet connection speed to a crawl. Browsing using Firefox or Safari, checking Mail, etc. barely even works when I have Transmission running. And I'm on a solid 6mbps connection. Anyone else seeing this problem? I've tried rolling back to older versions of Transmission but still have the same problem. About to try Azureus for the first time, which is a shame because Transmission has been great til now!
Did you make sure to throttle your upstream connection speed and number of connections?
Ugh! I too am having the same problem! I just got an iMac, and with uTorrent and Vuze, it totally kills my internet connection. I can't do anything. I think the software is overwhelming the router. I don't know if transmission was doing this, I decided not to use it becuase it was soooo slow and I couldn't get it to show the port as open.
This is really frustrating, becuase I can't use any internet functionality while I download. It isn't a bandwith issue either - the torrent clients aren't using nearly enough bandwith in downloading. The issue seems to be originating from the router
For what it's woth, I have a Linksys 54WGL or whatever running DD-WRT. I had no such problem with the same router and a Windows PC. Any ideas? Apparantly a lot of people are having issues.
just FYI, i did more research into my problem, and it was the torrent software overwhelming the router. The solution was to re-flash my router from DD-WRT to Tomato, and enable QoS settings to make torrent apps lower priority, so they don't encroach on regular web surfing
Definitely gonna try it only when it gets a little better than that. Transmission rocks except from that tiny problem!!
When you first install Vuze it looks like CRAP. Fortunately with a couple of mouse clicks you can get it back to looking like it did in the old Azureus days.
Yeah, but you can disable all of the Vuze crap in about four mouse-clicks. I use all kinds of private trackers with stupid Hit and Run rules, and Vuze has alot of features to make it easier to get what I need.
What did you exactly do? Can you guide us?
some links for you:
Download Tomato:
http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato
Tomato QoS Settings
http://www.linksysinfo.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52537
you have to make sure your router is compatible. Most of the linksys ones are.