Transmission kills my internet connection

Post by **Jordan** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:43 pm

Please give a nightly of r4752 or higher a try.

eddiet · Post by **eddiet** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 1:51 pm

I have a MBP running 10.5.1, and work on a wireless network of 2 airport expresses and an ADSL modem. I've just tried 1.02, and have the same problems I had with 1.01. I lose both my internet connection and the phone service (the ADSL uses the phone line). Too bad. Others seem to be doing okay with this. It is nice software. Guess I'll go looking elsewhere.

Post by **Jordan** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 2:57 pm

eddiet wrote:I have a MBP running 10.5.1, and work on a wireless network of 2 airport expresses and an ADSL modem. I've just tried 1.02, and have the same problems I had with 1.01. I lose both my internet connection and the phone service (the ADSL uses the phone line). Too bad. Others seem to be doing okay with this. It is nice software. Guess I'll go looking elsewhere.

If 1.01 fills up your router's NAT table before you upgrade to 1.02, then 1.02 is going to be dealing with that same clogged router. You need to exit 1.01, then reboot your router or wait 15-60 minutes for the table entries to age out, and then run 1.02.

eddiet · Post by **eddiet** » Wed Jan 23, 2008 3:02 pm

Jordan wrote:
eddiet wrote:I have a MBP running 10.5.1, and work on a wireless network of 2 airport expresses and an ADSL modem. I've just tried 1.02, and have the same problems I had with 1.01. I lose both my internet connection and the phone service (the ADSL uses the phone line). Too bad. Others seem to be doing okay with this. It is nice software. Guess I'll go looking elsewhere.
If 1.01 fills up your router's NAT table before you upgrade to 1.02, then 1.02 is going to be dealing with that same clogged router. You need to exit 1.01, then reboot your router or wait 15-60 minutes for the table entries to age out, and then run 1.02.

Oh, I did. I trashed Transmission 1.01 a week ago. Just tried it again today because I saw 1.02. In the meantime, I tried Tomato Torrent, which doesn't have features as nice as Transmission, and which also was killing my phone line. Going to trash that, too.

locojoker · Post by **locojoker** » Sat Feb 09, 2008 8:45 pm

same problem

Dweymouth · Post by **Dweymouth** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:03 am

same problem. Only my transmission often won't quit completely. I have to force quit. I'd been ignoring the updates for a few months, then a week or so ago, I upgraded. Not sure what version I was on before, but it was fine. Now I'm upgraded to the latest and the problem is worse. A few times it's crashed my whole system. I could jump from app to app, but couldn't do anything. Just the nice little spinning rainbow wheel. Had to do a hard reset, haven't done that so much since OS9. I've got Tomato Torrent running smooth as can be, too bad it's got no features. Wish there was a way to downgrade transmission to whatever version # I was using before. It was great. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I should've never downloaded the upgrade.

iHEARTleeching · Post by **iHEARTleeching** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:35 pm

there are a couple of ways of downgrading. Either go to the normal download page, and look for the headline Legacy Versions (Unsupported) - which will take you to a directory with every official release candidate.

On the other hand, if you want to try out an older nightly build you can go to http://transmission.xpjets.com/ where at least the 10 latest builds can be found, if you want to go further back to a later nightly release you go to http://transmission.xpjets.com/_OLD/ and browse through afaik all nightlies there has ever been!

Hope this helps you to find a version that helps you

Dweymouth · Post by **Dweymouth** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 12:57 pm

thanks. I just had Tomato running overnight(it's been a couple of weeks since transmission has run for more than an hour without messing things up big time), so this is definitely a problem with transmission. I'll try clearing anything to do with it off of my maching and start over with an earlier version. Whatever problems they were trying to fix, I wasn't having them. Now they broke it.

iHEARTleeching · Post by **iHEARTleeching** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 2:53 pm

Dweymouth, please check http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtop ... 9400#19400 and see wether the problems relate to yours - I'm the OP. Anyway, my problem wasn't there in 1.04 and now in 1.05 I can't have Transmission running for more than 20 minutes before it kills my internet

Dweymouth · Post by **Dweymouth** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:12 pm

it seems like the same problem. I think I've made it longer than 20 mins a few times, and like I mentioned it's often been worse than just an unresponsive internet connection. I'm on a 1.25 G4 eMac OS10.4.11 transmission 1.05. I think I was on 1.02 when everything was fine, then 1.04 was where my problems began. Then 1.05 came and I hoped maybe it was a quick fix to the problem I was having, but it's definitely only gotten worse.

iHEARTleeching · Post by **iHEARTleeching** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:39 pm

Hmmm... Really strange, since in my experience 1.04 flunctuates speed just as 1.05, but certainly doesn't kill my connection, and doesn't kill any apps. However, like in my post I'm on 10.5.1 macbook c2d 2,16. Can you turn you airport on and off, and it helps the problem? Cause I noticed that my internet will come back when I turn the airport (internal macbook) off, and on again. Then Transmission will continue it's downloading, and then later kill my internet again, and I have to disable, and re-enable the airport device once again.

Dweymouth · Post by **Dweymouth** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:56 pm

I've got airport but at the moment it's not hooked up. I'm plugged straight into the cable modem. The first time this started happening I reset the modem but it didn't help. Usually if I could get transmission to quit(usually requiring a force quit) I could start using my browser again. Once I actually rebooted the finder and transmission started downloading again. At this point I can't really troubleshoot anything. Once I lose my connection, I'm screwed. Time to hard reset the computer. They've really come up with a nice bug here, I've probably hard reset my computer more in the past week than I have the whole time since I switched to OSX.
I haven't started up transmission since yesterday. The computer has been on overnight downloading with Tomato Torrent, which is still running in the background. When this stuff is finished I'm going to try to go back to an older version and hopefully be back to where I was before this mess.

iHEARTleeching · Post by **iHEARTleeching** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:25 pm

I don't think I clearly stated what I meant, I meant that if I turn the feature in my Macbook called airport off, and on again, it works again. I don't even have to reset the router, I just ask the Macbook to disable and re-enable it's airport-searching, and then it works again when it finds my network.

Btw. I'm up to version 1.04 r4989 without any trouble. Every candidate marked 1.04 causes no connections problems.
BTW2!! - I was running r4989, as I was posting, however it killed my connection, so I'm back on r4988, which is the latest build that seems to work for me! Perhaps you should try it?

Dweymouth · Post by **Dweymouth** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:05 pm

thanks, I'll try that version first.

Yeah, I knew what you meant. This emac doesn't have an airport card so I don't get the airport thingy on the upper right corner of my screen.

Dweymouth · Post by **Dweymouth** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:49 pm

well, that version gave me the same problems. I went back and grabbed a different version at random, looks like I'm now on 1.01+ (4793). Had it running fine for an hour or so now.

EDIT: yeah, quite a while has past and I'm good. Thanks for the help and hope you get things running to your satisfaction. I won't be clicking the upgrade option until it says "fixes bug that *@#!ed up your whole computer".

Transmission kills my internet connection

Way of downgrading