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kirikiri · Joined: 19 Sep 2012

firstly, please forgive me because i'm not very technologically inclined, so if you guys could keep your suggestions/explanations relatively simple, i'd really appreciate it :)

anyway, i just tried to torrent something for the first time here and nothing is happening. at first, i thought it was my torrenting client (i use transmission since i am on a macbook), but the same thing happened in utorrent. i tried a few different torrents and nothing will work.

just to note, torrenting worked perfectly fine for me at home. does anyone have any idea what could be causing this?

many thanks in advance!

ttompatz · Joined: 05 Sep 2005 Location: Kwangju, South Korea

A closed port at the router is the most likely suspect followed by "blocked by a firewall on the network or your computer"..

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FriendlyDaegu · Joined: 26 Aug 2012

Is the light green on the Network tab of Transmission preferences?

kirikiri · Joined: 19 Sep 2012

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

You do have a firewall, and you have to set it so Transmission can pass through it.
In System Preferences, click "Security & Privacy". Then, select "Firewall" and click the "Firewall Options' button.
Check to see that Transmission is set to "Allow incoming connections".

kirikiri · Joined: 19 Sep 2012

FriendlyDaegu · Joined: 26 Aug 2012

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

Are you using a router? If so, have you port forwarded?

kirikiri · Joined: 19 Sep 2012

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

The router is the problem then.
Port forwarding is a way for your computer to tell the router where specific streams of data should be directed. Since your torrent data is meant only for YOUR computer, and your computer is on a network, you need to tell the router to send that data to your terminal through a specific port that your computer communicates through.
So, you need that router password in order to forward an open port to torrent traffic.

FriendlyDaegu · Joined: 26 Aug 2012

No activity with a green port light on the home network as well as the hotspot from the phone. The laptop's firewall is off.

I think that means the issue is with Transmission, not with the router or port forwarding.

I see a couple people on their forums who had a similar problem and got through it. What they did was:
Cycle the firewall off and on (on and off in your case).
Change the Transmission download location to the desktop, and then back to where you want it.
Restart the computer.

Give that a shot. I’ll keep looking.

crescent · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Location: yes.

True. I forgot about the green light. I have also been having issues with Transmission lately. At random times after waking the computer from sleep, I cannot connect to any peers. Green light. No router. But no connections.
Restarting the torrent doesn't help. Closing and reopening Transmission doesn't help. Only restarting the computer helps.

Switched to uTorrent and everything runs fine.

kirikiri · Joined: 19 Sep 2012

Oh wow -- restarting the computer seems to have fixed it! I almost never shut my computer off, so I didn't even think to restart. Thank you both so much! Glad that was an easy fix :)

cadurling · Joined: 16 Oct 2007

If you are moving your computer around and do not have an ssd you really should shutdown your computer before moving it. If it's not an ssd I guarantee your next prob to be a dead hdd.