[PLUG] Transmission v. Vuze

drew wymore drew.wymore at gmail.com
Wed Dec 23 05:52:16 UTC 2009


On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 9:49 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net>wrote:

> I have long used Transmission, even though it is lacking in features. I
> like Ktorrent better, but it doesn't work well in Gnome. A couple times
> in the past I tried Azureus, but could never get it to work. That was on
> Ubuntu. Now I am on Fedora 11 and decided to try it again. After much
> hassle I finally got 4.0.0.3 working. (But don't suggest updating to
> 4.3 because the updater just crashes.)
>
> So here I am trying to download a file by torrent with my newly
> installed Vuze. Vuze can't get the tracker to respond. I left it
> trying for an hour with no luck.
>
> So I stopped the torrent in Vuze and launched Transmission.
> Transmission also failed to get the tracker to respond, but in spite of
> not getting a response from the tracker, Transmission started
> downloading the pieces. That was half an hour ago and it has downloaded
> half the file, at a rate of 200 KB/s.
>
> I am very muy mucho confused and Google isn't helping. How can
> Transmission download the pieces without communicating with the
> tracker? If Transmission doesn't need the tracker, why does Vuze just
> sit and do nothing until it gets an OK from the tracker?
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I'm guessing Vuze doesn't support DHT which doesn't require a tracker.

Drew-



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