[jamiemcf]

I've been using Transmission for about a year or so now and I love it. It's free, and it does what I want. But lately everytime I've used it it has been really slow downloading, the ports are open though. It also drags my internet connection to a crawl yet is only downloading at 20-30kb/s. I quit it and bam my internet connection is back up to speed.

Any ideas what's going on?

[mdc]

Take a look at what your upload speed is and then limit it to around 10 - 15kps slower than its max.
Try that.

[Remxed]

generally limit your upload speed to 85% of your up bandwidth and your download speed to 95% of your down bandwidth

[SSharon]

I have similar issues with this app. I have 15mbit/2mbit and with caps at 10% of that the rest of my port 80 traffic periodically stops for half hour periods. Someone suggested that it was just a coincidence and that it was really a DNS issue, but after manually adding some DNS servers it still happens.

[Cold Warrior]

You could be allowing too many connections per torrent. Too many connections in either direction, or cumulative in both, duplicated across even just 4-5 simultaneous torrents, may hose your connection.

[SSharon]

Originally Posted by Cold Warrior 

You could be allowing too many connections per torrent. Too many connections in either direction, or cumulative in both, duplicated across even just 4-5 simultaneous torrents, may hose your connection.

I'll have to look into it, thanks for the tip.