Transmission saturating the router

[Jagermeister]

Hi,

I have Transmission 2.42 (13013) daemon running on a Western Digital My Book Live (a NAS device, running Debian Lenny).

When I leave Transmission running for a while, it completely saturates my router. It is extremely slow to navigate, and impossible to access the router configuration. If I manage to pause all torrents, the router still doesn't work, I need to restart it (manually, unplugging the power cable). Until I do it, the light of the router blinks like crazy, even though all the downloads/uploads are paused.

This problem is independent of the download/upload speed, it might be downloading very slowly but still I can't access the internet.

I think this might have something to do with my Transmission configuration (or the application itself) and not the router, because with my laptop I can leave uTorrent running for days without any problem.

These are some of the settings I have tried changing. I thought it could be related to the number of connections opened, so I restricted to global peer limit 100 and torrent peer limit 25, but no success:
"download-queue-size": 4,
"idle-seeding-limit": 30,
"peer-limit-global": 100,
"peer-limit-per-torrent": 25,
"seed-queue-size": 5,
"upload-slots-per-torrent": 5,

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Jagermeister]

• Test available bandwidth and make settings at 60% of tested (in KB/s).
• Lower global peers to a value that works for you and try ~10 per torrent.
• Test without µTP and DHT.

Thanks, I've set these values. I guess now it will be much slower, but it's ok if it doesn't "kill" my connection. I'll let you know!

[killemov]

When I leave Transmission running for a while, it completely saturates my router. It is extremely slow to navigate, and impossible to access the router configuration. If I manage to pause all torrents, the router still doesn't work, I need to restart it (manually, unplugging the power cable). Until I do it, the light of the router blinks like crazy, even though all the downloads/uploads are paused.

This is a known common problem for most Linksys routers. (They really should stop developing their firmware aka the square wheel over and over again.) See if alternative firmware is available for your router. (Tomato/TomatoUSB, dd-WRT, openWRT, ...)

[Jagermeister]

This is a known common problem for most Linksys routers. (They really should stop developing their firmware aka the square wheel over and over again.) See if alternative firmware is available for your router. (Tomato/TomatoUSB, dd-WRT, openWRT, ...)

My router is a Motorola Netopia 7347-44, do you think it could be a router-related issue? and how come it doesn't happen with uTorrent? connections are handled differently in Transmission?

[MrW]

Hi,
I also have this problem.
Running v2.42 on a QNAP and my router(a Dovado 4GR) totally hangs and stays hung even after I pause my torrents. Obviously this is a bug in the Router because I can accept it to be slow but not to hang.
But when I run uTorrent on a windows computer everything works flawlessly!
The exakt same torrents and I have tried to configure Transmission as close to uTorrent as possible but to no good. So it must be something that Transmission does that uTorrent doesn´t that hangs my router.
I have configured incoming ports to both the QNAP and uTorrent computer.

Any ideas? Or any recommended settings I should try?
My ISP is Telenor and using mobile 4G and the speed is between 30 to 90 Mbit/s in both directions.

[splitsoul]

I have the same problem, idependent of router, i normally use an asus rt-ac66u and have tried with two different D-link routers.
Transmission V.2.82 runs on a Asustor 606t nas, it ran without problems for 6 months until a couple of weeks ago.