uTorrent draining the life out of my router

[wxjunkie]

uTorrent has been sucking the life out of my wifi.

Though I'm downloading at a total rate through uTorrent of only 20k/sec, the rest of the machines' net speeds connected to my router are slowed to a crawl.

Anyone know what could be going on? I consistently get 5-6mbit with Comcast, but that's all thrown out the window when uTorrent is running.

 

[GhettoFob]

Don't max out your upload or else it makes your download speed suck. You should throttle it to something like 20-30k depending on what your upload speed is.

 

[MrPickins]

You should go into the uTorrent preferences and lower the number of maximum connections. Try 100 first, then bump it up incrementally to see how many active connections your router can handle.

 

[wxjunkie]

Thanks, I'll lower the max connections. I even notice that between one machine and the router (even going into the router's 192.1681.1 control panel it's terribly slow.)