Bittorrent Problems

[beefey88]

When I start azuerus (bt client) even if I am downloading REALLY slow like <10k/s my whole internet connection to everything else and every other computer connected to the network STOPS dead. BUT azuerus works fine.

The only thing I cant think of is I'm running BT on port 6884 is this a shared port with some kind of internet protocol in conflict? What port would you guys recommend?

-Thanks for the help
Beefey

 

[Continuity28]

Try lowering the amount of open connections. Some routers can't handle much.

 

[beefey88]

It's not going through a router it's just a switch we are all connected to then to the DSL modem.

-Beefey

 

[papaschtroumpf]

are you on Comcast? they are doing some new "traffic shaping" where they'll throttle you down if they think you use too much bandwidth. Basically they will pretend the other end disconnected or couldn't be reached, they just killed the connection at the entry point into their network.

 

[jaqie]

Originally posted by: beefey88
It's not going through a router it's just a switch we are all connected to then to the DSL modem.
-Beefey

Then your DSL modem is a NAT router as well.
Those things are pure crap as routers... either set up an old PC with two network cards with smoothwall, m0n0wall, pfsense, or the ire or get a good WRT54GL and set up DDWRT or something on it, then set up your DSL modem / router / pos to "bridge mode" to cut the crap out of the equasion. This all has the added benefeit of you being able to set up full QoS so that even when someone is totally hogging the net everyone else can still browse and such.

 

[Ika]

This used to happen with my old crappy Belkin router. Switched to a newer, wireless version and the disconnects stopped. I still kept the number of connections low, though (like 10 per torrent).

 

[George P Burdell]

1. Shut down all bittorrent clients running in your house/apartment.
2. Use http://www.speedtest.net/ to figure out your maximum upload speed. (eg. 50KB/s)
3. Open your bittorrent client and set the upload limit to be 10-15KB/s below step #2. (say 35KB/s)

if that doesn't work,
4. Get a good router that can handle BitTorrent. Like jaqie said, a WRT54G + DDWRT is a great solution

 

[0roo0roo]

limit torrent connections
lower torrent upload/download speed
lower connections limits in router
get nwe fasster router
or get one that can use ddwrt
or get one that can do its own traffic shaping/qos.