[solved] Leeching works, seeding doesnt?

[jim314159]

Hi All,

I'm a Transmission/BT newbie, but I've spent a fair amount of time in a good faith effort in the FAQs etc trying to solve this issue without luck.

• Transmission 1.54 on Mac OS X 10.4
• I've got the TCP and UDP ports opened in my OS X firewall
• I've got my ISP's router doing an IP passthrough to my machine
• The green "successful mapping" ball shows up in Transmission settings
• I can download files with no problems whatsoever

The problem is that seeding doesn't appear to be working. When I first start Transmission up, the files I'm trying to seed show 1 or 2 peers but no bytes uploading, then quickly drop back to zero. It's happening with a couple of files that downloaded pretty fast so I suspect there are others trying to get them. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,
jim

[livings124]

Are there a lot of leechers wanting the data, and few seeders (aka competition in this scenario). If not, you're not going to seed much.

[jim314159]

Well, that certainly makes sense. Thanks!

--jim