Re: Bittorrent. Where's the torrent?

On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 11:32:56PM +0000, Andrew Hunter wrote:
> John Velman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:59:43PM +0000, Andrew Hunter wrote:
> >> John Velman wrote:
> >>> I want to get KDE 4 native for OX X (leaopard, imac).  Have never used
> >>> bitttorrent before, but since this seems to be the only way to get kde 4
> >>> for mac, I decided to try.
> >>>
> >>> I installed Tomato as the bittorrent client.
> > 
> >> Use transmission, Tomato is rotten.
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > Well, you were certainly right about that!  I got transmission, installed,
> > and restarted the download.  It's humming along with ~200K download rate.
> > and after only a very few minuts I have ~ 4% downloaded, and a 2hr24min
> > prediction.  
> > 
> > This is more like it.
> > 
> > By the way, I through my ignorance haven't 'opened my ports' yet.
> > Transmission doesn't seem to be in the list of applications in
> > portforward.com, and the default instructions are for tiger, not leopard,
> > which seems to have a somewhat different set of windows and menus.  
> 
> Port forwarding has to do with the router, not the application.
> 
> Transmission supports, and is enabled OOTB, uPnP (and Apple's version of 
> the protocol) which will automatically open and close ports as nessicary 
> if your router also has it enabled. It appears that it does.
> 

Yep.  Green dot shows.  I'm almost begining to know what I'm doing thanks
to your reply and Transmission's help file.

Thanks again.

John V.