Download master using a lot of upload bandwidth?

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

I don't understand, I'm using asus download master, I limited upload bandwidth to 10 KB (I have 0.5 Mbit upload :\ ), PAUSED all downloads and I go to traffic manager. I can clearly see that is using 60KB upload bandwidth even when downloads are paused, because my wired connection is barely using 1KB and my wireless connection is using 0 (I had disabled all wireless devices for this purpose).

Then, I completely disable the asus download master and the upload bandwidth return to normal levels (1-2).

If I re-enable it, it starts correctly, using only 12-13 KB upload, but after... maybe 2 minutes, the bandwidth usage becomes 30KB and in a bit more you can find it again at 60KB (maximum). Thanks to QoS this is not creating me disasters, but I don't want to use bandwidth that I don't know where it goes.

I even tried disabling all WAN accesses, enabling dos protection, still while leaving downloads paused (0 upload and 0 download) the traffic manager clerly states 60KB (more or less) are in use.

Does anyone know why this is happening? How to solve it?

I'm thinking about installing "Transmission", however I would like to stick with the asus firmware. I'm using windows and I didn't notice if there is a valid interface for this o.s. . Also, the Asus Download Master Utility (the windows one) is very handy because when you double click on a torrent file, it directly inserts it in the router queue. Is this possible with "Transmission"?

Thanks for any suggestion

 

[linkmaster]

Do you have 'DHT network' turned ON? , from what I understand , that makes the torrent client continually transfer data about clients etc even if there are no torrents running.

 

[TeHashX]

Also, the Asus Download Master Utility (the windows one) is very handy because when you double click on a torrent file, it directly inserts it in the router queue. Is this possible with "Transmission"?

It's possible with transmission-remote-gui.

 

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

Do you have 'DHT network' turned ON? , from what I understand , that makes the torrent client continually transfer data about clients etc even if there are no torrents running.

This completely solves the issue. It was basically sharing files like emule... I could be ok with it, if the "upload limit" is respected, but this was not true for this feature.

It's possible with transmission-remote-gui.

This sounds cool, I really have to watch it. Does Transmission "fix" the previous issue, so I can use DHT but with bandwidth limited like all torrents?

 

[TeHashX]

Trying doesn't cost a thing, just disable DM first.

 

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

After a bit I noticed the problems comes out again. I tried even disabling PEX, no way, the downloader uses bandwidth for unknown reasons and doesn't respect limits, I'll try Transmission at this point, hopefully doesn't have same issue.

 

[RMerlin]

The problem with Download Master is that it also runs aMule, which will share everything in your download directory without giving you any control over that. Until Asus allows you to disable aMule, I recommend not to use Download Master, but to install Transmission directly instead.

You could tell aMule to use an invalid server IP, but that won't prevent people from connecting back to you if they already know your IP (or found it through port scanning).

 

[Fire-Dragon-DoL]

This is strange, today I've disabled both dowloader and all WAN router features (vpn/interface from wan/everything). Still, uploading at maximum. Wired and wireless connections aren't uploading anything so the problem is not only related to the download master. Do I really need to swap firmware? This is boring, I like the firmware :\

The only thing that is running, even if it's disabled, it's the dlna server, which keeps scanning even when disabled -.-'