I am using OSMC for 3 months now and I love it!
But lately I have experienced some unwanted behavior from the transmission client: My download speed does not go above 90-100 kBps any more. This has happened since one of the last 2-3 updates, I don’t remember exactly. If I download the same torrent using uTorrent from my PC remotely to the RPI, it works fine.
My current setup is:
RPI3 with wlan connection
Downloading to an external HDD, WD MyPassport 1TB, new, mounted as ntfs.
I am from Romania, so my internet speed is not a problem.
uname -a outputs:
4.14.26-2-osmc #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 15 18:20:26 UTC 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux
I am using Kodi UI, if it matters
I haven’t changed anything in the settings.json. I have no speed limit set.
If the drive is only going to be used with OSMC, then I would recommend reformatting the drive as ext4. If you need access from Windows/Mac then ExFAT should be Ok. NTFS is slow on linux.
So guys, thanks for your fast replies, but let me clarify again some topics:
My HDD and internet is working fine, because I am uploading from my network with high speeds. Also now from my phone I am uploading via FTP with 2MB/s.
The download limit is by default false in settings.json. I have also played with that and also with the numbers and no result.
Yes, I am using transmission from osmc app store
The problem is somewhere else.
As I said , 2 months ago worked fine!
You need to do some testing to narrow things down. You can use iperf3 to test network speeds, and dd to test drive speed. Once we know how the local network (from the Pi) performs, and how the drive performs we can maybe narrow down the problem.
The first major thing I would suggest you try (if you can) would be use wired instead of WiFi network.
EDIT:
To test the drive speed, run this from a command line on the Pi
As a next step, I’d recommend you try downloading something that we know will be well seeded, such as an Ubuntu or Linux Mint ISO. Running it for a few minutes should be enough to see how it performs.
Don’t forget the possibility that it’s your ISP throttling bittorrent traffic.
have you added any new cpu intesive addons in kodi? My transmission have no issuses, had to limit download to 2,5 megabyte/s. The other thing might be large files with lots of small chunks.
You never mentioned your inbound and outbound speed, if you hit your outbound limit your download will be affected.
About ISP traffic, I am not sure, my uTorrent works perfect from the same network.
Also I have played with the port setting on transmission, and no success there.
Well - apparently there is something limiting you.
When you talk about slow transmission - what are you transmitting? Movies? Updates?
Net Neutrality has an impact on these things lately. I can tell, I have Fiber to the Home with a 1Gbps Download and a 200Mbps upload speed. I rarely access a site/resource I can download with full speed.
Only things where I reach 500Mbps are when downloading a Game via Steam.
Downloading the last Star Citizen Game gives me up to 800Mbps download speed. That - is awesome
But movies? no. The Streaming is limited to the playback speed. Hence not required, except when I download something on my tablet - like Amazone Prime/Netflix - for watching in the airplane later on.
But here, the WiFi limits the download speed (~120Mbps) when I’m not too far from the AP.
PS: I have the entire House cabled with Cat6, and all my routing equipment is able to handle that speed, also the NAS is able to handle 2Gbps (Too many Kids in my house).
Guys, it seems that i discovered the problem, it was my eyes!
In settings.json, somehow I had the :
alt-speed-down : 50,
alt-speed-enabled : true
So I set it to false and now I have 2-3 MB/sec download speed again!
I did not see that.
I had checked every setting in the json file for limiting the download, but that. I had:
