Transmission

Thank you, everyone, for all the help and information. :)

I figured out the problem: I was unable to get any of the ports I was using forwarded successfully so I’d used 5190 as the port in Transmission (it was the port iChat had been assigned and was open). I’d done the same thing on µTorrent for ...

Thanks.

But why doesn’t it happen when I use BitTorrent on Windows Vista? And how likely is it that this problem will persist across two routers from different companies?

Don’t get me wrong, I’ve been a Transmission evangelist for over two years now and still love the application dearly.

It’s just that for the past two weeks I’ve been facing so many problems with my Internet connection and have called my ISP’s support executives to my house so many times that my ...

OK, Transmission wasn’t the cause of the problem. I tried using µTorrent on my Mac and am facing the same problem.

Notably, this problem doesn’t surface both when I download using the standard HTTP protocols and when I download from the BitTorrent network via µTorrent on Windows Vista (on the same ...

So this was the reason my Internet connection was getting screwed up every time I started using BitTorrent. And here I was, blaming everything and everyone from my Internet service provider to my router and Time Capsule and even Mac OS X.

Damn it!

I’m switching to µTorrent.