[transmission] Transmission 1.76 + DHT download and discussion (OLD THREAD)

[Squeek]

Is everyone else happily getting on with 1.51 then? After a couple of quick tests I was happier, but now I've actually started using it regularly it's still not quite there for me. CPU usage seemed better (high when looking for peers, but acceptable the rest of the time), but still, adding 3 or 4 well-seeded public torrents via torrentwatch causes the WebUI to become unresponsive after a few hours (ie by the time I'm up and wanting to check them), so I'm at work now and can't get near the webUI, so I would assume that my cpu is pegged at home...
Also, speeds are just miserably slow. My connection is good for 800k/s from a private tracker(and I can acheive this in transmission), and I'd typically expect to get between 100 and 300k/s from a well-seeded public tracker - certainly this was acheivable with BTPD. In transmission 1.51 I'm getting very spikey speeds between 0 and 50k/s. Some earlier versions gave me slightly better speeds but none have been great, and 1.4x builds seemed to slow down after a while, which made having 10 or 12 private tracker torrents seeding a waste of time as they wouldn't upload (and yes, I've tried stopping or removing these seeding torrents when downloading the public stuff)
Can anyone give any suggestions for settings in 1.51 that might help? I've played around with the peer limits but it doesn't make much difference - even though there are tens of thousands of peers in the swarm, my torrent only connects to 10 or so typically.
If I can't get a workable setup for quickly downloading from large swarms, and reliably uploading to small ones over a long period, then I'm gonna have to rollback my firmware to get btpd back, and go back to my old approach of having a stable version of transmission handling my private tracker stuff (which it generally does ok) and btpd grabbing the public tracker stuff from torrentwatch (which it always did admirably)