BuffaloRescue Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 Im having problems download with bit torrent. I tried many clients. I use a mac Some torrents for legitimate sites such as downloading software via BitTorrent from a manufacturers site seems to work. Also from wikilieaks it works. But magnet torrents from other sites don't work. And using various online tools to turn the magnet torrent into a regular torrent file, it still doesn't work. Im stumped. What can I do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick ZepTepi Posted March 18, 2017 Share Posted March 18, 2017 The condo router can't tell what's inside the data packet, individual ports could be blocked but that would block all data on that port. It's more likely to be software related. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonderboy Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 It's probably your ISP throttling torrents, and not your condo (why would they care?). Both True and TOT seems to do it, but it's not consistent. Some times I get good speeds, other times even the Dns stops working while downloading torrents. Magnet link or not makes no difference. If you want to avoid throttling I suggest you try vpn. Seems like throttling happens mostly at daytime, try to experimenting with different times in the day. Or change isp...WB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coops Posted March 19, 2017 Share Posted March 19, 2017 Use a VPN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 try turning on encryption and /or use random port Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encid Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Which application is that you're using John? I don't recognize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I'm running transmission on my NAS server https://transmissionbt.com/ and transmission remote GUI on my ( cretinous Cretaceous) Windows XP desktop + Android phone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Encid Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 I see... it's a bittorrent client. Is it better than Bittorrent or uTorrent? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johng Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 2 minutes ago, Encid said: Is it better than Bittorrent or uTorrent? cant say really if its better or not, I use transmission because it works on my Debian based NAS server which is on 24/7, using the remote GUI application I can easily add torrents from the web browser on desktop or phone and check their progress all torrents are downloaded and stored on to the NAS server.... it does the job very well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coops Posted March 20, 2017 Share Posted March 20, 2017 Use a VPN. I run a VPN on my Synology NAS for all internet connections. Without it torrents are throttled (True cable). With VPN, no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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