Transmission issues

I just got to college with my brand new mac and have discovered while the internet here is super fast, transmission crawls along at low speeds like 0.8k. Is there any way I can up the speed?

most universities cripple the speeds of torrents on their network... is there an internal program like DC++ at your school?

not sure, how do i check?

What visualpurple said is true. Torrent programs work wonderfully at home for me, but then slow down a lot while I'm at school during the day (and the speed is about the same when browsing the internet at both home and school). DC++ is the standard client used in most schools that I know of. Ask another student at your college, and/or talk to the tech department.

are there any workarounds? and what about programs that update through bittorrent, like WoW?

No work-a-rounds usually, they typically cripple P2P speeds as Comcast just did to all its subscribers. P2P transfers use so much bandwidth that universities and schools regularly throttle the speeds so that everyone has a good connection.

I also read somewhere that Transmission is banned on some tracker sites because of how it communicates with the tracker...I am not sure if it is still the case since I don't use torrents at all...maybe another torrent expert can clarify.

kuchiki

Yes, it is banned by some torrent sites, unfortunately.

You could try xTorrent, but you may have to purchase it to use extra features. Seems like a good client.

eliehass said:

are there any workarounds? and what about programs that update through bittorrent, like WoW?

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You're probably not supposed to be playing WoW... If you read the technology user agreement (or something similar that you probably had to sign) it probably specifies that you are not to play online games either. They probably work, and work alot better than Bittorrent does, but most schools specify that their internet is ONLY to be used for school related things. I know that's what my school said.

But I used the heck out of Bittorrent at school. It was slow, but it always got the job done. I just had some serious NAT errors, and could never get a good upload speed, which also hept me from getting a good download speed... You just have to deal with it.