Since moving over to a linux platform and using the bundled BT client (Transmission) I have noticed how its peer list of connections gets clogged up with clients that ate 100% done but will not allow a download to take place.
Can I suggest that you add to the system a way of dropping these clients who won't allow upload as well as that add a manual way of stopping clients of this way also.
It is annoying when you have a torrent with thousands of seeds but the list is clogged up with clients that are done but will not allow a download.
It is really annoying because I have 1 file in the download list with 47 peers but only able to download from 4 of them in the list because the rest of the clients don't allow download.
Bit Torrent under XP does not operate like this, if you can not download from a remote, theirs no point in mainlining the connection, so why does Transmission burn / waste traffic allowance like this?
I have to resort to disconnecting the modem, sometimes I have to completely reboot to start a fresh and hopefully catch clients that are willing to allow download.
Clogged peer list
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I thought that I would post this to bring to the attention again of developers here that this situation still exists. The image shows you that the majority of clients that are part or 100% complete that are not allowing download are clogging up the peer list when other clients allowing downloads could occupy those slots and not have clients sitting and hogging a slot that transmission could allocate to a client that is being fair and allowing downloads.
They say that a picture speaks a thousand words, what does this one say? I don't want to come off as pushy but I think that this is an internals issue that needs to be resolved and dealt with ASAP as it is obvious that transmission has limitations that are its achilles heel.
As you will see from the list of peer and the number of seeds... Something needs to be done, IMHO if a peer in the list is blocking and has lived in the list for X number of minutes, drop the client and add them to a connection block list that is local so that the transmission client does not burn traffic allowance on keeping alive connections that are never going to allow download.
Unlike most people on the internet, theirs no broadband land line connection for me and I have to use a broadband dongle. The cost of these things is horrendous given that you are charged for all traffic out of the machine like your charged for it in to the machine. So a 350mb download costs allot, average is 900mb of allowance which translates to £10 a download. This is not some figure I have plucked out my 'A' but based on months of monitoring this phenomena and stats.
So I and others that rely on these types of USB Stick modems that connect via the 3G & HSDPA networks (mobile phone) would appreciate some proactive input from the development team for transmission and I would welcome some form of kick tool for this purpose. Instead I have to rely upon the afore mentioned method which is the greater scheme of things, not very user friendly way of dealing with this situation.
Ta.
They say that a picture speaks a thousand words, what does this one say? I don't want to come off as pushy but I think that this is an internals issue that needs to be resolved and dealt with ASAP as it is obvious that transmission has limitations that are its achilles heel.
As you will see from the list of peer and the number of seeds... Something needs to be done, IMHO if a peer in the list is blocking and has lived in the list for X number of minutes, drop the client and add them to a connection block list that is local so that the transmission client does not burn traffic allowance on keeping alive connections that are never going to allow download.
Unlike most people on the internet, theirs no broadband land line connection for me and I have to use a broadband dongle. The cost of these things is horrendous given that you are charged for all traffic out of the machine like your charged for it in to the machine. So a 350mb download costs allot, average is 900mb of allowance which translates to £10 a download. This is not some figure I have plucked out my 'A' but based on months of monitoring this phenomena and stats.
So I and others that rely on these types of USB Stick modems that connect via the 3G & HSDPA networks (mobile phone) would appreciate some proactive input from the development team for transmission and I would welcome some form of kick tool for this purpose. Instead I have to rely upon the afore mentioned method which is the greater scheme of things, not very user friendly way of dealing with this situation.
Ta.
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I came looking for a way to remove these same peers. They only slow down the whole process.
Jim
Jim
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Well it is annoying that the power to boot these peers is not part of the clients arsenal of tools.
If I use Bit Torrent on my ex's computer, her connection like mine is broadband, a 350MB file on her machine takes 12 minutes, on mine, its anyones guess. The 350 MB file I am downloading now is suggestion I go to bed and see if its anywhere near finished in the morning. Its quoting 18 hours and flitting between that and 5 days with a swarm of several thousand seeders...
I don't want to sound like a whinie ungrateful knob but lets face facts, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH IT...
I have also noted a really very annoying problem with this BT client that I have not had with others. This is what happened....
I started a file, it got half way through and my data allowance ran out so I powered down the machine to go out and get some broadband credit for my modem. Powered up the machine, loaded on the credit, restarted Transmission and it refused to start the download because the device ID for the target where the download was going to did not exist despite the fact that the USB drive was still in the USB socket... I had to download the 400MB that I already had in order to get the file.
You really need to incorporate a dialogue for pointing to incomplete sources where the client loses track of the target.
Like I said, I don't want to be seen as a whinge bag but this client could be improved vastly by taking a leaf out of BT's (original) book.
If I use Bit Torrent on my ex's computer, her connection like mine is broadband, a 350MB file on her machine takes 12 minutes, on mine, its anyones guess. The 350 MB file I am downloading now is suggestion I go to bed and see if its anywhere near finished in the morning. Its quoting 18 hours and flitting between that and 5 days with a swarm of several thousand seeders...
I don't want to sound like a whinie ungrateful knob but lets face facts, SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH IT...
I have also noted a really very annoying problem with this BT client that I have not had with others. This is what happened....
I started a file, it got half way through and my data allowance ran out so I powered down the machine to go out and get some broadband credit for my modem. Powered up the machine, loaded on the credit, restarted Transmission and it refused to start the download because the device ID for the target where the download was going to did not exist despite the fact that the USB drive was still in the USB socket... I had to download the 400MB that I already had in order to get the file.
You really need to incorporate a dialogue for pointing to incomplete sources where the client loses track of the target.
Like I said, I don't want to be seen as a whinge bag but this client could be improved vastly by taking a leaf out of BT's (original) book.