Colin
Last week I tried to download a torrent. The Drive showed zero connections. uTorrent immediately detected peers and intiated the download. It was only a small file (148MB) and uTorrent completed the download before the Buff even started. By next morning, UTorrent had seeded about 500x, and then, mysteriously, after mpre than 12 hours inactivity, the Buff started to download! Now, thats the same torrent file using the same tracker, and teh Drive, and uTorrent started at the same time.
I also noticed a similar thing a day or so ago when I noticed again that the Buff wouldn't UL/DL a torrent whilst uTorrent would, but they showed different numbers of Seeds and Leechers. Whilst Buffalo showed available peers it wouldn't connect. Hence I don't think this problem is restricted to uploading of new files.
I also suspect that the number of ongoing torrents may affect things. When there is a large number of active files, it seems the Buffalo won't accept new connections. It seems for example that with an UL limit of say 50KB/s it won't divide that bandwidth between say 25 connections and give some activity to each, it seems to want to give larger bandwidth to a smaller group, eg one connection of 20KB/s, one of 15, one of 10, one of 4.9, one of 0.1, whist uTorrent will have a more even spread of bandwidth. Maybe that's intended, maybe uTorrent has it wrong, but the effect with the Buffalo is that a file will sit there for hours or days with no activity even when it shows available peers.
I have also found in some instances that there will be a 'greedy' torrent that slowly edges out the other active connections and increases its bandwidth at the expense of others - eg, in the example above, the 20KB/s connection will increase to 45, leaving one connection fighting for the other 5KB/s whilst the others cease.Again, maybe this in intended, maybe not, but if you're trying to seed 5 files, and only one works, or if the same thing happens when downloading, it is very frustrating. It happens less when DL because bandwidth is geater, and there is a finite amount to DL so that when the torrent completes the DL, the capacity is avavilable for others, whilst with UL, there is no limit unless you choose one.
Of course, there is more information with uTorrent - you can see connections that are refused by the peer for example, so not all peers are able to make connections and that does explain some inactivity of a torrent when there are only a few peers.
I hope the new FW solves all these problems and gives us the Torrent function that is obviously in demand and that we get the overall unit performance that enhances Buffalo's reputation. I'd also like to be proud of my purchase and what it does for me.
Message Edited by cecilrhode on 05-24-2009 11:57 PM