transmission headless, does not connect to peers

[binary_dreamer]

hi. in my network i do have two machines A and B.
-A: is a laptop running win 7 with utorrent. IP 192.168.1.30 at port 6112
-B: is a raspberry model B with transmission. running in raspbian without gui.IP 192.168.1.31 at port 55555. i have followed this link http://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=22218 to install it.

i get a torrent and give it a shot at the same time in both machines.
in win7 machine the torrent starts to connect as it has 15000 peers.
in transmission it does not start.


the problem has a 50% success rate. is there anyone that has any ideas?

[gdt]

Basically, follow the scientific method.

Connectivity. Test from the RPi outwards: Can you ping the router? Can you ping the outside world?

Application. Test from the RPi outwards: Is transmission running? Can you torrent from a seed on the same machine? From on your home network? From a solid source like the Fedora mirrors?

You can use wireshark to view the traffic on the ethernet port, and that can be a considerable help.

[binary_dreamer]

hi, thanks a lot for the reply.
the raspberry is connecting OK to the Internet, wireshark checked.

let me give a recent example of how it responds. i am having 5 torrent with each one of them to have more than 5000 of peers. if i send them to the utorrent it will download OK. In transmission 2 or 3 of these torrents they will fail to connect and they will show 0 of peers. the rest of the torrents will connect and download correctly.

very strange