A single peer to peer torrent, noob help please

[anonstirfry]

Hello,
I have been reading up on this but as a noob, I am still confused. I want to transfer some raw video footage I shot (7 GB of files) to my friend, but it is too large to transfer over iChat (which would make it very easy).

So I tried creating a torrent in Transmission but am still stumped on what to do for the tracker. It should be a private torrent since I only want to transfer my raw footage to one person. I am connected to the internet via a Airport Extreme 802.11n router, which seems like another troublemaker in this situation. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks all!

[Rolcol]

There are some public trackers (like publicbt) that you can just add to your torrent and they'll track it regardless of who wants it. As long as you don't freely give away the torrent, no one else should be joining your swarm. If you checked the "Private" option when making the torrent, peers will only be found through that tracker, and DHT and PEX will be disabled.

If NAT-PMP has not automatically opened Transmission's port on your Airport Extreme, you'll need to do that manually. It's more important that your port be open so that your friend can connect. If both of you have ports closed, neither will be able to connect to each other.

[anonstirfry]

Thank you very much Rolcol, that takes care of the tracker situation. Excellent info as well, it's all starting to make sense, much appreciated! I'm going to try it later but I have a feeling my Airport will now be the only thing keeping this from working. I have tried looking for the NAT prefs before in this new 802.11n extreme and it's much harder to find than my old extreme 802.11g.