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Why is bitorrent causing my internet connection to fail?

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FearoftheNight

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When I'm downloading a torrent suddenly the upload/download will drop slowly to zero and my internet connection is gone. This seems worse when I am connected to AIM or BNET. I can fix it by restarting my computer but it still happens a few minutes later which causing me to reboot multiple times to finish downloading a file. Anyone know how I can fix this?
 
Have you isolated this problem to your PC doing the download, or your cable/dsl model, or anything else? Maybe if you have a 2nd rig, see if the internet connection is dead for that as well when it stops working for your bittorrent system..
 
I don't think its your actual system, but more so you're DSL modem or router. Instead of rebooting your comp, have you tried bouncing the router/modem?
 
Guarenteed they are using a router. The problem is too many concurrent connections (usually limited to 1028 on SOHO based routers) causing your router to lock up (or deny any sessions basically). Cut down on the total # of server connects you allow (not sure of the exact setting as I don'tr use bitorrent).
 
Thanks for the responses guys. Just got back from out of town. No I am not on cable/dsl and using a router. (sorry mboy) I'm using the campus network at my college. Torrents work fine on my desktop. The motherboard went out so I'm using my laptop lately. So I seriously doubt it has anything to do with my connection. As for bad NIC driver is there any way to confirm this? It works for everything else 100% fine from Bnet to internet to aim. I've also tried a different program called Personal Torrent Collector but the same thing ends up happening. So given the above info. Can anyone else think of what the problem is? I've googled and found several similar issues to mine but noone seems to be able to solve it.
 
It's either a software or hardware problem.

Lots of consumer level nic cards are cheap pieces of doo-doo. Not great, but good enough to do what most desktop users need them to do. Namly fetch email, browse the web, instant messaging and the occasional download.

Or it could be a driver issue. Sometimes the manufactures just don't expect to have juggle dozens of connections at once on a desktop computer, so it's not suprising that the thing will keel over and die from the workload.

Try installing the newest drivers you can from your manufacturer's website. If that doesn't help, maybe you can borrow a different PCMCIA nic to try out in your laptop and see if you run into the same problems. That way you can isolate the problem. (your using regular cat5 eithernet, right?)

If it's fixed buy new drivers, then it was a driver issue. If it's fixed buy different hardware, then it was your nic itself. If it's fixed buy neither then it's either your OS (or just both nic cards you tried out suck) or the campus network. If it's working on a different computer just fine, then it's probably not your campus's network.

So this is happening with your Laptop, right? What chipset is it using? Onboard or PCMCIA....
 
What type of NIC card? What you're describing is a known issue with most revisions of Realtek's driver for the 8139 NIC chipset. That's the chip that's on most cheap/budget NICs, so you may be getting hit by their crappy drivers.

If you do have an 8139-based NIC, then try dropping back to the old 2001-dated drivers that shipped with XP. That's apparently the only driver revision that doesn't have this problem.
 
I have a compaq x1000 with onboard realtek nic.
Realtek 8139C + Fast Ethernet. 😱 Erf looks like this may be the cause of the problem. skriefal
How would I drop back to this older driver? Would there be any downsides to doing so? Also how do I uninstall the current and where do I find the older one? The one at compaq's website seems to be from late 03.
 
I too have an X1000 -- well, actually an HP ZT3000, but it's the same as an X1000. I heard about the Realtek driver problem with BitTorrent at X1000 Forums.

The 2001 driver is the one that shipped with Windows XP; there should be no need to download it. You should be able to roll back the driver via Device Manager, but I haven't tried this myself since I don't use BitTorrent from my laptop. If that doesn't work, then check out X1000 Forums for more information.
 
Yes, that's one of the threads that I've seen that discussed the BT/8139 problems. Let me know if the driver rollback works. If it does then I might roll back the driver on my laptop, too.
 
Been downloading torrents for the past 2 hours. So far so good. It appears that the problem has been solved. I just hope there weren't any of the newer driver tweaks that I'm missing. I use bittorrent alot fo I think I'll stick with this one.
 
You could check with your college's IT folks and ask about any special restrictions on bittorrent downloads. You may need to go directly to the network admin, since management might not know what the heck you are talking about. 😉
 
I couldn't help but notice that you said you were going to give ZA a try. The 5.0 client is said to have issues with both BitTorrent and eMule. Anyway, you might want to turn off the firewall and see if that fixes the problem. ZA should have a fix fairly soon.

Justin
 
oh heh i just installed zonealarm after i fixed the bittorrent issue? which was solved by a driver rollback to an earlier driver from o1 😱. justinman do you know if zonelarm auto updates?
 
ehh just went around zonealarm forums...yea i got the bittorrent issue now..bah...what should i do now..decision decisions....do you know how long it iwll take for them to fix this issue?
 
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
ehh just went around zonealarm forums...yea i got the bittorrent issue now..bah...what should i do now..decision decisions....do you know how long it iwll take for them to fix this issue?
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yeah. switch from stupid zonealarm.
 
>>>yeah. switch from stupid zonealarm.<<<

Probably not a bad idea...
They've really inconvenienced a lot of people with this release, shows a lack of concern for their customers. Anyway, if you want it, they should have 4.5 up on their servers too, which is of reasonable quality.

Justin
 
Originally posted by: Sid59
Originally posted by: FearoftheNight
ehh just went around zonealarm forums...yea i got the bittorrent issue now..bah...what should i do now..decision decisions....do you know how long it iwll take for them to fix this issue?
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yeah. switch from stupid zonealarm.
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lol when did there arise so much hatred for ZA?
 
Been using ZA 4.5 with BT. ABC, Azureus all work fine. Only the Windows Personal Firewall gave me problems (which has since been disabled). My NIC is on-board my Abit IS7 mobo, not sure if that's a Realtek device.
 
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