corewerkz

also, check out the transmission forums

Thanks for the info. it help me much..:)

To Brian,

Hello again and hope you are well.

I will try and keep this brief.

I recently bought a Compaq notebook and a new 3-com wireless router so I could do work at home on the laptop and also leave Transmission downloading without having to disconnect the ethernet line from one computer to another.

Everything seems to be working fine.

My question is this:

I am currently downloading various files from one particular site and there is no problem with this, but I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly), that I had to open up different “ports” for each files I wished to download.

For example if I wanted to download 5 files from one site i had to have 5 ports open.

I got this impression from Port Forwarding which reads:

If you plan on downloading multiple files at the same time via BitTorrent, you need to open up one port for each file. This guide will show you how to open up one port for each file. If you chose to put port 12540 into the Starting at Port box and wanted to have five files going at the same time, you should forward ports 12540 to 12544.

My downloads are working fine through following your tutorial, so is there any explanation for this? It’s not a problem as I say as my files are downloading, but I just wanted to know why this was the case?

Thanks as always for your assistance :)

Simon.

“but I was under the impression (perhaps incorrectly), that I had to open up different “ports” for each files I wished to download”

- nope, one port does it all, not sure why port forwarding says that

To Brian,

Me neither, hence the question. Thanks for the reply.

If you have time perhaps you can clear one other thing up?

I am downloading now, no problem, but the red light is still on in Transmission saying port is closed.

Is this normal? It doesn’t seem to matter if I check or un-check the “automatically map port” box either.

Thanks very much.
Simon.

great site.
maybe you could update the transmission preferences pictures, as they now appear in Transmission 1.50.
thanks a lot.

Hi,

I was following the settings as you wrote, but no luck…
I’m using Leopard, have a DSL modem connected to a Linksys wifi router. If i get the internet via wifi the light remains red, but if I connect via cabel directly to the DSL modem it becomes green… Any idea? I did the port forwarding setting on the wifi router as well…

Thanks alot! Now im downloading and recovering my files.