Imyourzero
Diamond Member
Got my new rig built on Saturday and everything has been awesome for the most part...but for some reason I've been experiencing some network issues and would like to find out what's causing this to happen.
I've always used Azureus for my torrent needs but decided to try uTorrent since it seems to be the new favorite. I started downloading and browsing the forums as usual, but after some time I noticed my network connection was extremely slow. I'm used to it slowing down somewhat when getting decent speeds on one or multiple torrents, but it has never been THAT slow. Just about every page I tried to go to timed out, and the couple that did go through took several minutes to load. The torrent, however, continued to download at its previous speed. I checked my max up/down speeds and had them limited, so like I said this isn't the usual slowdown that you get when downloading torrents -- it rendered my network connection basically unusable. I also checked processes and nothing was hogging the CPU.
I stopped the download, rebooted, and my network connection speed was normal again. I thought it might be a uTorrent problem so I installed Azureus and started downloading the same torrent using it. Sure enough, after some time my network connection slowed to a crawl again while the torrent continued chugging along. I noticed that if I stopped or paused the downloads and waited a few minutes, the network connection would seemingly go back to normal and would work for a while after restarting the downloads, although it would eventually slow to a crawl again.
I never had this problem on my last system (DFI Ultra-D / X2 4400+) nor did I have it on the laptop in the next room which was also downloading the same torrent for test purposes.
I only had the primary local area connection hooked up to my router, and just for S&Gs I connected the other one as well. Doing this seemed to fix my first issue; it was after connecting both ports that I could download torrents and surf the web with decent speed simultaneously. I don't know why both LAN ports would have to be connected, though...maybe there is a problem with the first port? I might try it with just the 2nd port connected when I get home and see if the problem happens again.
Now, for the other issue which might have to do with my router. I left the torrent downloading on the PC, went to watch 300 (again 🙂 ) and when I came back the torrent speeds were 0kb/0kb on both my PC and the laptop. I was also unable to navigate to any websites. Had to unplug the router in order to restore the network connection and resume websurfing/downloading. This happened twice in the span of a few hours. I think it's a router issue since it halts network activity on all PCs connected to it. I'm using the Netgear RangeMax wireless G router and have had to reboot it every now and then because it'll keep a connection but simply halt all network activity. I do not have this problem with my other router (plain Netgear wireless G router); it has been on 24/7 for months without a problem.
Thoughts? I was wondering if anyone else was having similar issues with this router.
I've always used Azureus for my torrent needs but decided to try uTorrent since it seems to be the new favorite. I started downloading and browsing the forums as usual, but after some time I noticed my network connection was extremely slow. I'm used to it slowing down somewhat when getting decent speeds on one or multiple torrents, but it has never been THAT slow. Just about every page I tried to go to timed out, and the couple that did go through took several minutes to load. The torrent, however, continued to download at its previous speed. I checked my max up/down speeds and had them limited, so like I said this isn't the usual slowdown that you get when downloading torrents -- it rendered my network connection basically unusable. I also checked processes and nothing was hogging the CPU.
I stopped the download, rebooted, and my network connection speed was normal again. I thought it might be a uTorrent problem so I installed Azureus and started downloading the same torrent using it. Sure enough, after some time my network connection slowed to a crawl again while the torrent continued chugging along. I noticed that if I stopped or paused the downloads and waited a few minutes, the network connection would seemingly go back to normal and would work for a while after restarting the downloads, although it would eventually slow to a crawl again.
I never had this problem on my last system (DFI Ultra-D / X2 4400+) nor did I have it on the laptop in the next room which was also downloading the same torrent for test purposes.
I only had the primary local area connection hooked up to my router, and just for S&Gs I connected the other one as well. Doing this seemed to fix my first issue; it was after connecting both ports that I could download torrents and surf the web with decent speed simultaneously. I don't know why both LAN ports would have to be connected, though...maybe there is a problem with the first port? I might try it with just the 2nd port connected when I get home and see if the problem happens again.
Now, for the other issue which might have to do with my router. I left the torrent downloading on the PC, went to watch 300 (again 🙂 ) and when I came back the torrent speeds were 0kb/0kb on both my PC and the laptop. I was also unable to navigate to any websites. Had to unplug the router in order to restore the network connection and resume websurfing/downloading. This happened twice in the span of a few hours. I think it's a router issue since it halts network activity on all PCs connected to it. I'm using the Netgear RangeMax wireless G router and have had to reboot it every now and then because it'll keep a connection but simply halt all network activity. I do not have this problem with my other router (plain Netgear wireless G router); it has been on 24/7 for months without a problem.
Thoughts? I was wondering if anyone else was having similar issues with this router.
