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Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by 5e92cb50239222b »

nness wrote: post #53
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.

There's also the Transmission Remote GUI, which is a nice GUI for remotely controlling the Transmission daemon, on say, a NAS: https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui It's great for keeping downloads going overnight without having to leave all the power-hungry devices powered on.

FWIW, qbittorrent also has a built-in web interface. It's also one of the most feature-rich BitTorrent clients.

https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by hellweaver666 »

haunter wrote: post #67

Love Transmission but went to picotorrent a few years ago, even smaller footprint https://github.com/picotorrent/picotorrent Sadly it’s Windows only

I stopped using clients on my computer as my NAS has a built in client that allows me to quickly download content straight to that device without using my computer as a middleman. Transmission was my go to for a very long time though!

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by londons_explore »

oefrha wrote: post #56
londons_explore wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thats like 1 per second. Which isn't really much. Thats probably 1 per person who connects or tries to connect to your machine.

A BT client doesn’t need to do DNS resolution for peers, since peers are bare IP addresses. It does need to resolve DNS for tracker domains when periodically announcing, and a public torrent can have a lot of trackers. Those add up if tracker domains have low TTL, I suppose.

Most BT clients do do a lookup of IP addresses. Many do it to provide little flags in the UI to say which country a user is from. Some also use the results as part of an algorithm to ban bad clients (if all clients from the same ISP are sending bad data, ban the whole ISP).

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by hrbf »

capableweb wrote: post #58
hrbf wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s probably impossible to track that with any meaningful precision. Historically it’s the (central) tracker that implements the bookkeeping.

Impossible to track with 100% accuracy, yes. But not completely meaningless to do some basic tracking. A torrent client could implement some tracking on their own, where they keep track of seen clients and keep track how much been uploaded vs downloaded from them (effectively ratio per client) and upload slower to clients you've never encountered that have been uploading.

How would your client know what other clients have uploaded to other clients?

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by happymellon »

yegle wrote: post #39
diegoholiveira wrote: post #5

After Netflix and others streaming services, I stop using Transmission. What’s the current usage of BitTorrent?

With the use of Sonarr/Radarr/Bazarr, along with a NAS and a fast enough connection, the last advantage of using a streaming service (convenience) is gone.

Well considering they killed the idea of having a portal to access content, convenience isn't actually that high for me.

Boxee was excellent for this, we used their services, and paid for them, but a standardised interface let me watch shows from different networks.

These days they would have to work with Plex but they would never actually cooperate.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by oefrha »

londons_explore wrote: post #73
oefrha wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A BT client doesn’t need to do DNS resolution for peers, since peers are bare IP addresses. It does need to resolve DNS for tracker domains when periodically announcing, and a public torrent can have a lot of trackers. Those add up if tracker domains have low TTL, I suppose.

Most BT clients do do a lookup of IP addresses. Many do it to provide little flags in the UI to say which country a user is from. Some also use the results as part of an algorithm to ban bad clients (if all clients from the same ISP are sending bad data, ban the whole ISP).

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.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by lynguist »

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.

Re: Transmission 4.0.0 beta 1

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Post by netheril96 »

zaik wrote: post #14
KennyBlanken wrote: post #8

This release is really important if only because it supports BitTorrent V2 spec. Transmission has a huge market share, particularly in open source circles. Lack of support for the V2 spec has stopped many open source projects from migrating their torrents to the V2 spec, because transmission clients won't work. Please support and use other open-source torrent clients, because Transmission's long-standing history of g…

I think Transmission works great. What's the v2 killer feature?

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