Bittorrent crashes my modem?!

[yhelothar]

Whenever I have bittorrent running, especially with two or more torrents going, it'll cause my modem to reset once every few minutes.

I'm using verizon dsl with a westell modem. Anyone know a fix?

 

[ntdz]

It tends to freeze my router when i download over the wireless...no fix as of yet

 

[SportSC4]

some routers/modems can't handle too many global connections. My old netgear could do 250 (but dsl modem would sometimes reset) but my current dlink craps out at over 160 or so

 

[Shawn]

yeah, it sucks.

 

[0roo0roo]

wikipedia has a list of bad routers for torrent. they can't handle too many connections at once. u gotta limit it in the client.

 

[uhohs]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
wikipedia has a list of bad routers for torrent. they can't handle too many connections at once. u gotta limit it in the client.

got a link to that list?

 

[tjaisv]

Sounds like the modem can't handle it! I'd try a different model/make modem if u can.

 

[ironcrotch]

Wow I have never had that problem, or any problem related to hardware with BT. It's usually a firewall/port issue.

 

[yhelothar]

So how many connections should I limit it to?

 

[0roo0roo]

~100

 

[dethman]

using my verizon dsl, i've found that their westell modem sucks ass.

 

[0roo0roo]

http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Good_settings

http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Good_Torrents

 

[imported_goku]

Are you overclocking your modem? Might wanna try getting some better fans for your modem, I'd consider watercooling and peltier only if you're doing some serious overclocking.

 

[Dragoon42]

Originally posted by: goku
Are you overclocking your modem? Might wanna try getting some better fans for your modem, I'd consider watercooling and peltier only if you're doing some serious overclocking.

hahahahaha wtf? lol

 

[yhelothar]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Good_settings

http://azureus.aelitis.com/wiki/index.php/Good_Torrents

Thanks.
I just tried 300 before you gave me this link. It seems to be working well and has stopped the modem from crashing so far in the last 40 minutes.