Just updated to version 2.31 and now have a problem with the download speed limit. It just doesn't seems to limit it at all, and the download speed is regularly over 10kb/s. Went through and manually set the bandwidth limit at 10kb/s, still downloading much faster, normally 40kb/s.
I'm trying to reduce the download speed so that I don't use up everyone elses network connection (using my home wireless connection and we have about 3 or 4 connections running), so really important I get this down...
Speed Limit Problems
Re: Speed Limit Problems
Funny, I updated to the lastest, and I'm only getting 1/8 of the connection I am used to getting. It's like the update really screwed around with things that should have been left untouched. 
I cannot maintain a steady, fast upload anymore. I don't want to switch to utorrent. But if I am not getting the speeds I was used to getting, I may have no other choice. Please fix this issue developers. I don't know how to send a ticket, but I really want to use the full functionality of this program. Thanks.
I cannot maintain a steady, fast upload anymore. I don't want to switch to utorrent. But if I am not getting the speeds I was used to getting, I may have no other choice. Please fix this issue developers. I don't know how to send a ticket, but I really want to use the full functionality of this program. Thanks.-
powertech2
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Re: Speed Limit Problems
I too have noticed speed problems, but I started noticing them starting way back when the devs abandoned the 'official' blocklist'. Ever since then, even though I am prompt to upgrade to the latest release, speed problems have gotten more and more 'flaky', and they are hard to describe. 2.31 is slower than any previous version without my changing any defaults, which are all set way low because Transmission is not very gracious in sharing the internet with my browser. After reading some of the discussions about speed, today in desperation I did something I have NEVER done - I unchecked the 'Blocklist' box under 'Peers' and my outgoing speed tripled in a flash. That box has been checked ever since I started using Transmission and it never occurred to me to uncheck it. I immediately thought I was being 'unsafe' so I rechecked it, but surprise, my outgoing speed so far has maintained! Now what is that all about?
About the blocklist - since the devs abandoned responsibility for an 'official' URL and left all users to twist in the wind (including non-guru types like myself), I'm like a lot of users perplexed about what URL to use. I managed to cop one from another user - it is http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/level1.gz
I immediately noticed it had 4,000 fewer entries (from about 224K to 220K) but it does seem to slowly update so I know it is active. PLEASE! I am not a guru and just can't follow all these complicated high level blocklist discussions. Can't someone who knows the ropes so much better than many of us just tell us what URL we OUGHT to be using? Preferably, one so comprehensive that it includes every bum spammer, fisher or whatever so we can just set it and forget it? It would be great if we could all get on the same page with this one - the way it used to be. We don't need to plow through dozens of URL options - one will do. Thanks.
About the blocklist - since the devs abandoned responsibility for an 'official' URL and left all users to twist in the wind (including non-guru types like myself), I'm like a lot of users perplexed about what URL to use. I managed to cop one from another user - it is http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/level1.gz
I immediately noticed it had 4,000 fewer entries (from about 224K to 220K) but it does seem to slowly update so I know it is active. PLEASE! I am not a guru and just can't follow all these complicated high level blocklist discussions. Can't someone who knows the ropes so much better than many of us just tell us what URL we OUGHT to be using? Preferably, one so comprehensive that it includes every bum spammer, fisher or whatever so we can just set it and forget it? It would be great if we could all get on the same page with this one - the way it used to be. We don't need to plow through dozens of URL options - one will do. Thanks.
Re: Speed Limit Problems
That URL's days are numbered. The only reason it's been kept alive is because of the Linux distros that still had old versions of Transmission that have that URL hardwired into the source code. After those distros put out newer versions, the URL will go away.powertech2 wrote:About the blocklist - since the devs abandoned responsibility for an 'official' URL and left all users to twist in the wind (including non-guru types like myself), I'm like a lot of users perplexed about what URL to use. I managed to cop one from another user - it is http://download.m0k.org/transmission/files/level1.gz
As for leaving you hanging... maybe you would feel safer if we had a default blocklist but IMO that would be an illusion. The devs never evaluated any of the blocklists' contents. And how could we? My goal for a blocklist would be to block out peers that send bad data, but without a port number and torrent checksum, how would you test that criteria in a given IP range?