diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/bin/transmission.start b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/bin/transmission.start
index 455fbf7a5e..aa9972e29d 100755
--- a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/bin/transmission.start
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/bin/transmission.start
@@ -81,6 +81,18 @@ else
   TRANSMISSION_ARG="$TRANSMISSION_ARG --no-utp"
 fi
 
+if [ "$TRANSMISSION_LPD" = "true" ]; then
+  TRANSMISSION_ARG="$TRANSMISSION_ARG --lpd"
+else
+  TRANSMISSION_ARG="$TRANSMISSION_ARG --no-lpd"
+fi
+
+if [ "$TRANSMISSION_LPD" = "true" ]; then
+  TRANSMISSION_ARG="$TRANSMISSION_ARG --dht"
+else
+  TRANSMISSION_ARG="$TRANSMISSION_ARG --no-dht"
+fi
+
 if [ ! "$(pidof transmission-daemon)" ];then
   if [ -f "$LOCKDIR/$LOCKFILE" ] ; then
     rm -rf "$LOCKDIR/$LOCKFILE"
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml
index d5ff333d26..f95f3bfd40 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/language/English/strings.xml
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@
 
 	<string id="3110">Other</string>
 	<string id="3121">Download Directory</string>
-	<string id="3122">Enable uTP support</string>
+	<string id="3122">Enable uTP for peer connections</string>
+	<string id="3123">Enable local peer discovery (LPD)</string>
+	<string id="3124">Enable distributed hash tables (DHT)</string>
 
 </strings>
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/settings.xml b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/settings.xml
index 9caf209ad7..ff158ca3e9 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/settings.xml
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/resources/settings.xml
@@ -22,5 +22,7 @@
 		<setting label="3110" type="lsep"/>
 		<setting id="TRANSMISSION_DL_DIR" type="folder" label="3121" value="" default="/storage/downloads" />
 		<setting id="TRANSMISSION_UTP" type="bool" label="3122" default="false" />
+		<setting id="TRANSMISSION_LPD" type="bool" label="3123" default="false" />
+		<setting id="TRANSMISSION_DHT" type="bool" label="3124" default="false" />
     </category>
 </settings>
diff --git a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/settings-default.xml b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/settings-default.xml
index c3de30f8e6..56dfa7b9ac 100644
--- a/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/settings-default.xml
+++ b/packages/addons/service/downloadmanager/transmission/source/settings-default.xml
@@ -7,4 +7,6 @@
     <setting id="TRANSMISSION_LIMIT_TORRENT" value="" />
     <setting id="TRANSMISSION_DL_DIR" value="/storage/downloads" />
     <setting id="TRANSMISSION_UTP" value="false" />
+    <setting id="TRANSMISSION_LPD" value="false" />
+    <setting id="TRANSMISSION_DHT" value="false" />
 </settings>