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rTorrent and Transmission don't seem to work well
Downloading any torrent regardless of seeders and leechers seems to give me the same result. Either it doesn't download at all and finds no peers or it will find one or two peers and will download up to say 10k.
Using the same machine on a different operating system or using a different machine (mac) on the same network I am able to download fine. I have tried tweaking settings in both rTorrent and Transmission but no to avail. Any ideas? |
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I did not have any trouble with transmission but found I needed to have the default rtorrent configuration file in my home directory.
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cp /usr/local/share/examples/rtorrent/rtorrent.rc ~/.rtorrent.rc Also in rtorrent the downloads do not start automatically. You need to select the torrent and ^S. See man rtorrent. Lastly, there is a warning about hash checking for the BSD's. I just have it disabled. |
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Strange. Transmission was working fine yesterday but now its doing the same thing. The only thing that seems to have any effect is having firefox closed. Thats probably coincidence though. I have lots of peers but its downloading at 0k. Sometimes 5k for a second or two.
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Ok so it appears theres a problem with the wireless usb device I was using, Ralink RT2573 (rum). I've tried it on two seperate OpenBSD laptops with the same result with torrents. I'm now wired in through a 3Com 3C905C (xl) and it works perfectly. I went from 22 peers to having 60 (the default limit in Transmission) and speeds are much faster and not intermittent.
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Glad you got your problem circumvented.
Did you want it solved? You don't say if you are running OpenBSD 5.0 or -current, or perhaps something even older, nor do we know which Ralink chipset is in the device. If you're running 5.0-release or -stable, there's been one change to if_rum.c in -current that has not been backported. It fixes a problem with 11g beacon frames. See http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvswe...v/usb/if_rum.c |
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I'm running 5.0-release. I thought that RT2573 was my chipset but I also see RT2528 listed below that in dmesg. Is that my chipset? I would definitely like to solve my problem.
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This is the specific section I'm talking about:
rum0 at uhub0 port 1 "Ralink Technology RT2573" rev 2.00/0.01 addr 2 rum0: MAC/BBP RT2573 (rev 0x2573a), RF RT2528, address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx |
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The thread drifted into wireless configuration but I have noticed there is some odd behavior with rtorrent in OpenBSD 5.0.
I try to be a good netizen and conserve server resources when downloading *iso files and just used rtorrent successfully for NetBSD 5.1.2, FreeBSD and Arch linux. Rtorrent on the same box does not work for either the OpenBSD, PC-BSD, or Debian torrent sites. My best guess is that the non-working sites use multiple trackers while NetBSD uses a solitary tracker. Possibly the OpenBSD site may not be working although it does have up to date current torrents (he is looking for a new host). The Debian site does work in other torrent clients (transmission). My rtorrent.rc configuration file is not anything exotic, just min and max peers are un-commented. I also tried disabling packet filtration, I have the default installation configuration, but still was unable to get peers from the OpenBSD,PC-BSD or Debian site. Code:
Trackers: [Key: 2f92c8d7] Peer list 0: http://bttracker.debian.org:6969/announce Id: Focus: no Enabled: yes Open: no S/L: 0/1 Info 1: dht:// Id: Focus: no Enabled: yes Open: no S/L: 0/0 Code:
*** OpenBSD *** Trackers: [Key: 12a601d8] Peer list 0: http://OpenBSD.somedomain.net/announce.php Id: 2 Focus: no Enabled: yes Open: no S/L: 0/0 Last edited by shep; 8th February 2012 at 03:26 AM. Reason: Added more information |
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I upgraded to current and the problem went away. Permission for usb devices have also been fixed in current.
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