Transmission doesn't see most peers

[iindigo]

Hello,


I'm a longtime Transmission user. First picked it up around 0.6 or so, maybe earlier, and used it up till around 1.8. I then went on a short torrenting hiatus.

Came back a day or so ago, and now with the latest version of Transmission (2.03) I'm having a problem I've never had before. That is, for whatever reason, Transmission refuses to even see the majority of peers on a torrent.

One torrent, for example, has a total of 45 peers - 44 seeders and 1 leecher (me), as reported by the torrent site. However, Transmission somehow only sees 6 and has only connected to 2. What's going on? I'm not behind a firewall or router of any sort, and my ISP does no throttling or restriction of any kind.

[iindigo]

Just updating with a bit more information - this problem is definitely confined to Transmission. Both uTorrent and rTorrent see and connect to as many peers as possible and thus download and upload rates are much higher.

Is there any reason for this to occur? Perhaps something changed in the networking code in a recent version of Transmission and is now proving problematic?

[Luckymudster]

I'm new to Transmission, I also use 2.03, and have the same problem. Even though there may be multiple tens of peers (or more), Transmission for some reason sees a very limited number of them and then connects to even fewer.

[Inuyasha]

It's an ongoing conspiracy that uTorrent prioritizes uTP-capable clients over standard clients, and since uTorrent accounts for the vast majority of users, a bandwidth starved swarm will end up avoiding your client like the plague.

Or it could be firing off corrupted packets or something which gets it blacklisted by other peers.

Or maybe they just don't like you?