hope I can find some help here after googling for days without finding relevant answers.
So far I only used Transmission to download stuff from the internet and it always worked great. But now I want to use the bittorrent protocol to share files with friends (since it is more than one friend and torrents are robust against interruption I thought this might be a better approach than using FTP). Before sending out my torrent file I thought I do a test in my LAN to check if everything is working.
So I have two computers in my LAN. On PC1 I created a torrent file using a public tracker, and added it to Transmission (v1.75). I then copy the torrent file to PC2 and add it to Transmission (v1.34). Even after hours of waiting PC2 has still not received any data.
Status on PC1 (seeder) is: Seeding to 0 of 0 connected peers - Idle, and: Tracker responded: Success
Status on PC2 is: Downloading from 0 of 0 connected peers - Data not fully available, and: Tracker responded: OK (200)
If both ends are talking to the tracker, why can't they talk to each other? I have the feeling that I might have a port issue (both Transmissions tell me that the port is closed), but then both PCs can download data when I add internet torrent files. Why is my own torrent file not working, what am I missing?
Any help will be much appreciated, even if it is pointing out fundamental errors in my thinking
