Bittorent not Working after Firmware update

[drmemory]

For customers experiencing slow Torrents with 1.60, please contact me with your linkstation model number, serial number (14 digit), ISP name/type, and a link to the torrent that is slow (we need for testing)  Send to drmemory@buffalotech.com

[Guyver111]

Since i got no response in any kind the first time, i will try a seceond time:

 

Many Torrent Trackers block BETA clients.

Which means the torrents don't start.

 

My Terastation Duo with Firmware 1.57, which was released on 19.07.2012.

A litte work with wireshark shows that this firmware uses a utorrent version that uses the peer_id UT300B, which identifies the Torrent client as a Utorrent 3.0 BETA.

Utorrent 3.0 Beta is "only" about 1 1/2 years old.

 

Is there a chance to see a firmware in the near future that uses a up-to-date and stable version of utorrent?

 

It "could" be the solution to many "Torrent doesn't download" threads.

 

I hope i get a response this time 

 

[drmemory]

For FW suggestions, please add the suggestion in the Idea Exchange Lounge and urge all your friends to vote for it. For faster help with these issues, I have to provide complete information to the engineers (along with your written suggestion). My post above details what they need. Also, a few weeks ago TPB stopped working for people without trackers and a week later began working again, though slower. I have received some information from people on this post, but most have not responsed, so the engineers can only guess that most people's magnet links are working again, with trackers.

[ghz]

Hello. I'd also like to ask the development team to upgrade the embedded utorrent client. As Guyver said a beta version is being used that is blocked on some of the trackers.

Btw I've already reported this but had no responses: http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Storage/embedded-torrent-client-advertises-itself-as-beta-client-id/m-p/97854

[drmemory]

Ideas need to be suggested on the Idea Exchange Lounge for the engineers to see how many people vote on it.

[Guyver111]

i just posted the idea in the "Idea Exchange Lounge".

But then i looked at the "Top ideas" and saw that the two top ideas are more then 2 years old, with 90 and 46 votes, and non of them ever made it to a firmware ....

I don't think that many people go to the lounge or don't know that they can vote.

 

Oh well we are just end-users.....

 

***Correction by Admin - the top idea was implemented - Twonky was updated to the highest stable version (6), and the engineers are working on ideas number 3 and 5. If more votes come in for 2 and 4....but you are correct that people aren't voting much, people need to go vote. Less than 100 votes for the top ideas isn't many votes, considering these forums have over 36,000 registered members, BTW, I voted for your idea - keep the votes coming in****

[Zarquon]

Well, voting won't hurt - let's all do it and see if we can make a positive change 

[trezemauro]

Where do I have to go for voting new ideas?

 

Could you please link the address for voting right here.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Mauro

[Guyver111]

http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-Lounge/idb-p/2001

 

You have to klick on the Arrow in front of the topic

[trezemauro]

Done, cheers.

 

M

 

[drmemory]

there was already a suggestion for this at http://forums.buffalotech.com/t5/Idea-Exchange-Lounge/Updated-version-of-uTorrent-webui/idi-p/57830 but I'll add all the votes together when getting the engineers to look at the suggestions.

 

[Hooner]

I have the LinkStation Pro Duo LS-WVL/R1. Since the current firmware includes a beta version of the Utorrent client, does anyone know what version of the firmware includes a non-beta version? As a temporary solution, I'm considering downgrading the firmware.

[Guyver111]

good question, as i wrote the 3.0 Beta is about 1 and 1/2 years old.

 

i'm surprised that, in all that time, they never updated the client.

And there were a few firmware updates in that time.

 

Propably worked by the rule: "Never change a running system"

[ghz]

Hello. You might try rolling back to 1.40 as I found the following a while ago:

Buffalo FW version on my Linkstation Mini: 1.40 -> 1.57
Embedded BT client version string: uTorrent Embedded 2.16 -> uTorrent 3.06
BT client id: UE210B -> UT300B

[Hooner]

The version of uTorrent on the Buffalo NAS is not open source. It is licensed from uTorrent, but developed and maintained exclusively by Buffalo. It is unlikely to be updated regularly.

 

Since I really needed a reliable version of the bittorrent client on my LS-WVL, I was able to install instead the most recent version of the open-source bittorrent client Transmission. This requires getting root access to your NAS to allow for the installation of new packages. This will violate the warranty on your NAS.

 

I don't think a detailed discussion of this procedure is permitted here. If anyone else is interested, I recommend that they search other forums.