And I thought things were supposed to just work?!

Phaser · 1 Dec 2007 at 13:48

Couple of problems with my new MacBook.

First up, Airport.

I've been using my MacBook fine wirelessly since I bought it, it picked up the connection fine and I was away. Now today it's decided that it's not going to work. Airport is turned on but it just won't find my wireless network. I've logged onto the router and no settings are any different, other laptops can see the network fine too.

Second problem, Transmission not downloading/connecting to torrents.

I've got UPnP turned on, on my router. I've opened up the network settings and it's set to "automatically map port". On my router it shows the port as 1412, same as port forwarding too. I type this into the network settings on Transmission and after aaaages of waiting I get a "cannot check port status". I've tried lots of different ports (which I know will work fine), tried turning the mapping off etc, nothing makes a bit of difference.

Any ideas? The wireless issue is pretty major and it's putting a downer on the whole Mac goodness thing.

Zefan · 1 Dec 2007 at 13:55

The "things *just work*" stuff is so people don't ask questions when something goes wrong, after all - Macs just work!

Sorry, I can't help at all, just wanted to rant

J1234 · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:07

Phaser said:
Couple of problems with my new MacBook.

First up, Airport.

I've been using my MacBook fine wirelessly since I bought it, it picked up the connection fine and I was away. Now today it's decided that it's not going to work. Airport is turned on but it just won't find my wireless network. I've logged onto the router and no settings are any different, other laptops can see the network fine too.

Tried restarting the Mac?

Second problem, Transmission not downloading/connecting to torrents.

I've got UPnP turned on, on my router. I've opened up the network settings and it's set to "automatically map port". On my router it shows the port as 1412, same as port forwarding too. I type this into the network settings on Transmission and after aaaages of waiting I get a "cannot check port status". I've tried lots of different ports (which I know will work fine), tried turning the mapping off etc, nothing makes a bit of difference.

Any ideas? The wireless issue is pretty major and it's putting a downer on the whole Mac goodness thing.

Is the firewall blocking Transmission?

System Preferences > Security > Firewall.

If not, try using a different client, such as Azureus.

WotDa · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:08

Zefan said:
The "things *just work*" stuff is so people don't ask questions when something goes wrong, after all - Macs just work!

Sorry, I can't help at all, just wanted to rant

Well, Transmission isn't an Apple program, so, rant denied.

Secondly, what router do you have, Phaser?

Phaser · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:24

Justin, restarting seems to have solved the Airport issues. Thanks. What would have caused that though?

I've got Azureus installed now and the torrent is downloading. Seems to be getting around 2-3kbs, although i'l leave it a while to see if this increases. I'm guessing there aren't any issues with ports being open etc as it's working now?

WotDa, It's a Netgear MR814 v2.

PS What the hell is that Vuze thing all about? I remember Azureus being much cleaner/lightweight?

J1234 · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:27

Phaser said:
Justin, restarting seems to have solved the Airport issues. Thanks. What would have caused that though?
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Not sure, it's happened to me before. Most likely a 10.5.1 bug.

I've got Azureus installed now and the torrent is downloading. Seems to be getting around 2-3kbs, although i'l leave it a while to see if this increases. I'm guessing there aren't any issues with ports being open etc as it's working now?

Most probably software related as Transmission can be a pain in the backside sometimes. If all the connection related lights in Azureus are green, then it's fine.

Phaser said:
PS What the hell is that Vuze thing all about? I remember Azureus being much cleaner/lightweight?

You've got the newer version of Azureus there, I think you should be able to find the normal version somewhere on the web. a lot more light weight.

Or alternatively try Tomato Torrent or BitRocket.

WotDa · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:32

Phaser said:
WotDa, It's a Netgear MR814 v2.

Ah, that's fine then, It's on the lamelol BT ones that somehow aren't mac compatible, apparently.

PS. Torrents don't seem to work well at all for me on my MBP.

Phaser · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:44

Ahhh I see.

Cheers Justin, it seems to be working fine now. Will probably let this finish downloading before I have a look around for the older version, don't want to push my luck too far.

Another query (last one for now I promose!) regarding HDD space.

I have the MacBook 2.2ghz with the 120GB HDD. It's saying i've got 96GB free, so used around 20GB.

Thats with the Leopard install, (3.3GB of language/printer files removed using the Monolingual program), VNC, FireFox, Adium, Azureus and Transmission installed. Does that sound about right?

J1234 · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:52

Phaser said:
Another query (last one for now I promose!) regarding HDD space.

I have the MacBook 2.2ghz with the 120GB HDD. It's saying i've got 96GB free, so used around 20GB.

Thats with the Leopard install, (3.3GB of language/printer files removed using the Monolingual program), VNC, FireFox, Adium, Azureus and Transmission installed. Does that sound about right?

Yeah, don't forget a formatted 120GB has an actual size of around 110GB.

Ctrl Click the HDD icon on desktop > Get Info.

Under General it will tell you how much space you are using.

Phaser · 1 Dec 2007 at 14:59

Yeah suppose you're right thinking about it. Good job i've got a 500GB external!

SooTyLaD · 3 Dec 2007 at 19:34

i find the problem with transmission to be related to the trackers... in uTorrent on windows i used to sometimes get no seeds or peers, but when i changed the tracker to another one listed for the file it would kick into action...

however with transmission they don't allow you to edit the tracker resources, so thats a no go... shame cuz its such an ace little program, so lightweight and neat

if you could add on a better tracker that you know has more people connected it'd do everything you could ever need...

MagicBoy · 3 Dec 2007 at 20:40

Tranmission's support for uPnP seems a bit flaky - worked fine on my old Asus cable router, while the Netgear I got from Sky won't entertain it. It's been better since .92 but port forwarding is just easier. uPnP on Azureus just seems to work however, but the app is a hateful resource gobbling pig.