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Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by xpressvideoz »

cassepipe wrote: post #23

When I first came to Linux I adopted Transmission. It seemed less featureful than others but now I like its simplicity, does everything it needs and it is also very reliable. It is not very known but there actually is a transmission-cli for common torrent operations that may come in handy some time.

FYI, transmission-cli is considered deprecated by the Transmission developers. Using both transmission-daemon and transmission-remote is the recommended approach. Actually, transmission-cli uses transmission-daemon internally and they share the same configuration. transmission-cli is still useful for one-off downloads, but I still prefer the recommended way because I'd like to seed older torrents some more time.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

#102

Post by Phurist »

netheril96 wrote: post #20

As a Chinese, I really need the anti leeching capabilities, as too many people here use Xunlei that only download but never upload. Sad to see that the maintainers skip this again.

In my country, noone will bother you if you download pirated content but they will bother you if you seed it.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by 411111111111111 »

capableweb wrote: post #92
411111111111111 wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And as the reported stats originate from the torrent client... They're able to report whatever they want. I remember using some obscure tool before 2010 to intercept these packages and update them. I was in my early teens back then and used it to overreport my upload statistics by something like x2 on some private trackers, so they wouldn't ban me.

It used to be easy to falsify that information, but no more. Most private trackers would easily ban you for that nowadays, unless you can get all the other clients to also cheat with you using the same parameters. It's easy to cross-reference the information coming from N clients, so you'll be booted relatively quickly.

That sounds like a useful development to counter such abuse, but i don't think this feature helps your torrent client wherever it should upload data to any given peer.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

#104

Post by aembleton »

lynguist wrote: post #79
squarefoot wrote: post #57

If someone asks me to install a Torrent client on a single machine, my favorite would be QBittorrent, however at home I use XigmaNAS' Transmission client extensively, and operate it from other machines in the LAN using the Transgui interface (also available on Windows and MacOS). This allows me to turn off everything but the NAS, which with all RAID disks spun down and a TDP of 15 Watts makes for some good energy sav…

Qbittorrent unfortunately turned into a buggy mess and has no leadership. The github has hundreds of known issues that are not addressed. No qbittorrent client works reliably on Windows or Mac for at least a year or two. It gets hung up scanning downloaded torrents etc.

Seems to work OK on my Pi with the web interface.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

#105

Post by xavxav »

> The project is much more responsive to bug reports and code submissions than it has been in the past.

Cool to see community listed as a feature up there with the tech stuff

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

#106

Post by mhh__ »

xavxav wrote: post #105

> The project is much more responsive to bug reports and code submissions than it has been in the past. Cool to see community listed as a feature up there with the tech stuff

If I die I want to be deprecated in the changelog

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

#109

Post by denton-scratch »

xpressvideoz wrote: post #101
cassepipe wrote: post #23

When I first came to Linux I adopted Transmission. It seemed less featureful than others but now I like its simplicity, does everything it needs and it is also very reliable. It is not very known but there actually is a transmission-cli for common torrent operations that may come in handy some time.

FYI, transmission-cli is considered deprecated by the Transmission developers. Using both transmission-daemon and transmission-remote is the recommended approach. Actually, transmission-cli uses transmission-daemon internally and they share the same configuration. transmission-cli is still useful for one-off downloads, but I still prefer the recommended way because I'd like to seed older torrents some more time.

> transmission-cli is considered deprecated

Wah! Bad news! I like to kick off a download from an SSH shell. Now I have to find out what transmission+remote is.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by oefrha »

londons_explore wrote: post #97
oefrha wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Transmission (or at least the official clients I have personally used) doesn't show country of a peer. Plus you can't determine the country of an IP by DNS, unless your geoip provider happens to be DNS-based; what you need is a geoip database.

Country is normally determined by doing a reverse DNS lookup, and then looking at the country code in the domain name. It's not very accurate, but you can do it for free without relying on any third party service or database. Here is the libtorrent code that does it for every peer: https://github.com/arvidn/libtorrent/blob/8786d17e59c90aee2c...

Well, at least some clients use a geoip database, e.g. qBittorrent: https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/blob/2ef059807afc...
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