Transmission

I have several seeds exclusive to one tracker that are refusing to seed. I need them to seed to balance my ratio.
Transmission says...

Peer list request timed out * minutes ago; will retry
Asking for more peers now... * minutes
Got a scrape error "tracker did not respond" * minutes ago
Asking for more peer counts in * minutes

I'm trying to ask on the tracker's forum, but I can't seem to even get a decent question out of them. I even made a torrent, that successfully uploaded, but, with several leechers, still gave the same response. I understand that this problem has no direct relation with Transmission, but I figured you guys would be much more intelligent then their forum.

The only thing that might affect it that Transmission can do anything about is if it's using UDP only or not. Otherwise there really isn't anything we can do to help with such generic info at hand.

I posted this on another forum

As of, about, three weeks ago, any torrent I've grabbed from any tracker doesn't work. I was getting stuff from tracker.example.com when my seeds stopped working on all the torrents I grabbed that day, but they were still downloading. After returning a week later (I use other peoples' internet), The torrents were still not seeding, and any new torrents I found wouldn't seed or leech whatsoever. I have a few old torrents working just as they should.

I've used two persons' routers that have allowed torrents in the past; Both routers have gone unmodified by their administrators (because they don't know how). Both routers still allow my old torrents to seed and leech. I have various new torrents from five differant trackers including tracker.example.com and Some Tracker. No new torrents work.

Let me repeat myself because people need to read things more then once.

Any torrent I've grabbed from any tracker doesn't work.

I have a few old torrents working just as they should.

I have various new torrents from five differant trackers including tracker.example.com and Some Tracker. No new torrents work.

Hitman,

Your troubles are most probably due to a number of well-known trackers having switched to a non-standard protocol (the so-called "UDP tracker protocol") and disabled the standard protocol.

If you're seeding public torrents (check in the torrents' information panes), then don't worry about the failures: the DHT will kick in after a few minutes, and you'll be seeding just as fast.

If you're seeding private torrents, you'll need to contact the tracker operators to ask them to re-enable the standard tracker protocol, or wait until Transmission implements the UDP tracker protocol (see ticket 117).

--jch

Sounds like a router problem. Go knock on the doors of the people whose wifi you're stealing and ask them for tech support on seeding torrents through their routers.

I use my mother's router and the local library's, jerk. I don't steal wifi, unless I'm in my car and need directions. I've used these routers in the past, with success. Now they go unmodified, and they only work on a few old torrents. I even jack-in sometimes to get the wifi out of the way, but to no avail.

Does anyone have a proper response to my problem? I don't want to have to start treating Linux like I did Windows, and reinstall it every time I have a problem.

Edit:
I just skipped to the last post and didn't see jch's post.

I have multiple private and public torrents. I'll try again on Saturday to see if they start "in a few minutes." This UDP protocol is new to me. Does t3h p!r8 b@y use it?