Very few peers connecting...

[iindigo]

So I've been downloading a few things lately, namely seasons 5-7 of Naruto Shippuuden. These torrents are pretty well seeded (lowest had 35 seeders) and all have very few leechers, yet for some reason I can only manage to connect to 3 or 4 of said peers at best.

I am using the latest version of Transmission on OS X 10.6. I do not have a firewall enabled and my computer is hooked directly up to the net via PPPoE, so no port forwarding issues are in the way. My ISP does no filtering or blocking of any kind.

What could be going on? I heard something about a new version of uTorrent being picky about who it connects to, could that be it? Is this some sort of quirk in Transmission?

[Southrop]

New versions of uTorrent implement a uTP (Micro Torrent Protocol) if that's what your talking about. I recall reading that Transmission is the first other client to implement the uTP as well. uTP reduces traffic load on networks by being "smart" and all. uTP clients are also more likely to connect to each other. Well, uTorrent claims that they've changed that, and Transmission uses uTP anyway, so that shouldn't be the problem.

[blubart]

uTP clients are also more likely to connect to each other. Well, uTorrent claims that they've changed that, and Transmission uses uTP anyway, so that shouldn't be the problem.

that was never true. at least for the typical swarm. utorrent simply tries to connect to an equal number of utp and tcp clients. in a theoretical swarm where the number of tcp only clients is higher than the number of utp clients there could be indeed an advantage for the utp clients (as they get a 50%+ share of the connections even though they make up less than 50% of the pool). with 85%+ of our users on a utp capable client this becomes obviously a non-issue.

dunno about your problem though. most likely a mac issue *g*

[newy]

Confusing uTP with UDP?

[Southrop]

Confusing uTP with UDP?

I think he is

[iindigo]

I'd like to add that I don't remember having these problems with rTorrent, so it's either something Transmission is doing or the other peers have something against Transmission. Was kinda hoping to switch back to a UI client, at least for the moment.

[Lupin]

Play around with the encryption settings. Set it to "enforced" (I no longer remember the correct term)

[Jarudin]

Just switch to uTorrent.

* Jarudin runs

--Jarudin--

[iindigo]

Play around with the encryption settings. Set it to "enforced" (I no longer remember the correct term)

After investigation, it seems that Transmission has encryption enabled and will use it whenever possible by default. In fact, it's impossible to disable encryption.

Just switch to uTorrent.

* Jarudin runs

--Jarudin--

Ehh... I know you're just trying to help, but uTorrent for OS X is lacking in features at this point, not to mention its developers are about as friendly to suggestions as cats are to water. Transmission, on the other hand, has been around on OS X since 2005ish.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

I'd like to add that I don't remember having these problems with rTorrent, so it's either something Transmission is doing or the other peers have something against Transmission. Was kinda hoping to switch back to a UI client, at least for the moment.

rTorrent has a UI too, y'know.  It's just an (ugly, unfunctional) ncurses one.

[iindigo]

I'd like to add that I don't remember having these problems with rTorrent, so it's either something Transmission is doing or the other peers have something against Transmission. Was kinda hoping to switch back to a UI client, at least for the moment.

rTorrent has a UI too, y'know.  It's just an (ugly, unfunctional) ncurses one.

Exactly. rTorrent was fine for a while, but now that torrents are piling up to create a long list, the ncurses UI is getting really clunky. A webui would work, but it's not ideal, especially since it doesn't have the organizational features that UI clients like Transmission have.

[Lupin]

Play around with the encryption settings. Set it to "enforced" (I no longer remember the correct term)

After investigation, it seems that Transmission has encryption enabled and will use it whenever possible by default. In fact, it's impossible to disable encryption.

I think this is a similar issue: http://forums.bakabt.me/index.php?topic=23313.0