Torrent Knocks Out My Wireless!

[dr150]

I've had 2 MIMO routers. One from Netgear and one from Zyxel (550).

Every time I get on torrent, it knocks my wireless connection within the hour. It's a huge pain to fix since cometimes I need to go into the setup to get things working again.


Any suggestions for settings, etc that would help with these cheap routers?....

 

[T3C]

First thing off the top of my head to try would be to limit your download and upload speeds on torrent.

 

[Deathlord]

I would read the FAQ's for your specific torrent client and routers.

I was having problems running either mIRC and Azureus from my WinXP 64 bit edition....tried all sorts of stuff. Then just moved the apps to a normal XP PC and it was cool. But in the process of troubleshooting and reading guides I made several tweaks to my Linksys router running dd-wrtv23. which I think in the long run helped my download speeds.

The thing about these types of networks is that it makes quite a few connections, and can maintain those for long times. May be attributing to your wireless having issues.

 

[Zap]

Besides limiting your speeds, how about limiting the number of connections your client software makes?

 

[ColKurtz]

Originally posted by: Zap
Besides limiting your speeds, how about limiting the number of connections your client software makes?

Agreed. I used to have the exact same problem, and I had convinced myself it was my ISP --annoyed at the constant bandwidth I was using-- doing something to kill my connection. But after limiting the number of TCP connections the problem stopped. Try this article. Throttling your connection (uTorrent has a speed limiter by default, and there's a plugin for Azureus) will also help.