[HowTo] Install and configure Oleg's firmware

[wengi]

See the conf page:
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/...iles#Overview1

You want to limit the number of connections or the number of active torrents?

wengi

[lowie82ph]

See the conf page:
http://trac.transmissionbt.com/wiki/...iles#Overview1

You want to limit the number of connections or the number of active torrents?

wengi

yes, for example I have 5 torrents, I only want 2 active and the 3 are waiting. I can't see that option on the link you provided.
how can I set that?

thanks

[wengi]

As far as i know it is done manually.
You have to start a torrent manually after another has finished.
The old daemon had this feature but i didnt find it in the new one.

wengi

[TheCrow]

wengi (sry my english)
tnx for tut.

I try trasmission, is ok...i like it but the speed is slow ~1.5 MB/s, from pc: 4.5-6 MB/s from a local tracker.

u can help me with a tut on rtorrent made by you step-by-step?
maybe the speed on rtorrent is not the same as transmission.

[wengi]

sorry, no experience with rtorrent.

check your cpu and memory status with "top" when transmission is downloading.
Which hardware do you use?

wengi

[TheCrow]

wl-500gp V2

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
225 TheCrow 20 0 6772 6356 2368 R 81.2 21.1 1:47.55 transmission-da
229 TheCrow 15 0 640 640 492 R 3.4 2.1 0:01.55 top
95 TheCrow 9 0 0 0 0 S 3.1 0.0 0:02.99 usb-storage-0
129 TheCrow 9 0 0 0 0 S 0.9 0.0 0:00.43 kjournald

[examiner]

Hi wengi,

thank you for the great tutorial, I was lost in configuring my WL500W until I found this.

However, transmission is very very slow, sometimes it says "Downloading 0 of 0 peers". When I start the same torrent on my PC, it works fine and usually fast.

I have 16Mbit line and on PC I get speeds up to 1MByte/s, but on my WL500W, even with no-limit settings, I don't get more than 50 KB/s.

The most irritating is the fact that some torrents don't work at all, as explained above.

My WL500W is not a router, but it is set as AP only - it acts as any other PC on the network, such as mine, that works ok. Can the Blacklist cause such problems?

[wengi]

Hi,

one general thing:

YOUR ROUTER IS NOT A PC!
This means that it has about 10% the CPU power of your PC.

As you can see in TheCrow's post transmission is consuming over 80% of cpu power.

Don't expect too much from this little piece of hardware.
I normaly start a max of three torrents and the average dl rate is about 20-30k with my WL-HDD.

Keep cool and relax

wengi

PS: Maybe other torrent clients are faster, but do not expect them to be much faster!

[examiner]

OK, I can live with that... It is weird thoughm that UL is about 200KB and DL is so slow.

But what about the torrents that dont work at all? Why it says 0 of 0 peers? When I start the same torrent on my PC, it works ok. They both share the same public IP address, but some torrents just do not work on transmission.

It used to be ok at the beginning - i could download anything i wanted, but after some time..

Is there any chance to perform transmission diagnostics?

thx

examiner

[wengi]

did you update to the latest version of transmission?

ipkg update && ipkg upgrade

wengi

EDIT
Try to disable blacklist to make it faster.

[mitku]

@wengi, thanks a lot for this great how-to guide. All is perfectly working on my WL-500W router.

I copied this guide in one other forum, to spread this knowledge to my friends - HERE. Off course it's with links to this thread and your name. I hope you have nothing against that. Thanks again.

[TheCrow]

my S90transmission-daemon not starting when i reboot router. How can i resolve that?? pls..

[wengi]

check content (with vi or nano).
check if executable.

wengi

[TheCrow]

if i start manualy , workin` ......so is executable...another ideea?

[TheCrow@WL-001FC6D7E6E7 root]$ ps axf
  PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
    1 ?        S      0:01 /sbin/init
    2 ?        S      0:00 [keventd]
    3 ?        RN     0:00 [ksoftirqd_CPU0]
    4 ?        S      0:00 [kswapd]
    5 ?        S      0:00 [bdflush]
    6 ?        S      0:00 [kupdated]
    7 ?        S      0:00 [mtdblockd]
   57 ?        S      0:00 telnetd
   62 ?        S      0:00 httpd vlan1
   67 ?        S      0:00 syslogd -m 0 -O /tmp/syslog.log -S -l 7
   68 ?        S      0:00 klogd
   71 ?        Ss     0:01 nas /tmp/nas.lan.conf /tmp/nas.lan.pid lan
   73 ?        S      0:00 [dnsmasq]
   75 ?        S      0:00 [khubd]
   83 ?        Ss     0:00 lpd
   85 ?        Ss     0:00 p9100d -f /dev/usb/lp0 0
   88 ?        Ss     0:00 waveservermain
   91 ?        Ss     0:00 rcamdmain
   95 ?        S      0:00 [usb-storage-0]
   96 ?        S      0:00 [scsi_eh_0]
  109 ?        Ss     0:00 pppd file /tmp/ppp/options.wan0
  112 ?        Ss     0:00 infosvr br0
  113 ?        Ss     0:00 watchdog
  115 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ ntp
  122 ?        S      0:00 dropbear
  166 ?        Ss     0:00  \_ dropbear
  167 pts/0    Ss     0:00      \_ -sh
  170 pts/0    R+     0:00          \_ ps axf
  148 ?        S      0:00 [kjournald]
  149 ?        S      0:00 [kjournald]
  152 ?        Ss     0:00 /usr/sbin/vsftpd
  159 ?        S      0:00 upnp -D -L br0 -W ppp0
[TheCrow@WL-001FC6D7E6E7 root]$

#!/bin/sh
#
# Startup script for transmission-daemon

case $1 in
start)
# update blocklist
echo "updating blocklist, ~4MB"
cd /tmp/harddisk/transmission/config/blocklists
wget -q http://www.bluetack.co.uk/config/level1.gz
if test -f level1.gz; then
rm level1
gunzip level1.gz
chmod go+r level1
fi
# start transmission
echo "starting transmission"
/opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /tmp/harddisk/transmission/config
;;

stop)
if [ -n "`pidof transmission-daemon`" ]; then
kill -9 `pidof transmission-daemon`
fi
;;

restart)
$0 stop
$0 start
;;

[mitku]

if i start manualy , workin` ......so is executable...another ideea?...

Is it with the right file name... starting with "S" (for automatic starting scripts at boot time) and number with 2 digits (for priority among starting scripts order) - in this case "S90xxxxx"?
Is it in the right directory "/opt/etc/init.d/"?