torrents flooding my connection?

[invictius]

If I have torrents going at full speed, then pause them, it seems to not allow my router to have any traffic go through - numerical ip address pings, anything. Only a restart of the router seems to help. Is this normal?

[YoMatta]

just curious, what torrent program are you using?

i use Utorrent and strongly feel the impacts of downloading any torrents and trying to do other stuff.

[invictius]

just curious, what torrent program are you using?

i use Utorrent and strongly feel the impacts of downloading any torrents and trying to do other stuff.

Bit Tornado. Always had very slow downloads with other (properly set up) torrent programs. IIRC, there's a router option to give HTTP traffic priority, which might help your problem. Mine is even after closing off all torrents, nothing can reach the outside world.

[meionm]

I had similar problem with torrents but I could not find solution, so ditched router for different one.

[corruption]

I had a similar problem with my DLink DI-524. I tried to update the firmware to see if it would help, but it only made the problem worse. I found that running older firmware (v 3.0.0 rather than 3.2.3) helped. I also noticed that the problem was only really showing up when I used certain torrent applications. (Such as Azureus.) I switched to uTorrent and still use the v3.0.0 firmware on my router and have had absolutely no problems at all.

The only thing that I can think of is that certain torrent programs stressed out my router more than others. Now I can download any Linux distro that I want without locking up my windows system from internet access. :) (I'm experimenting with linux on the laptop....still searching for my favorite.)

Not sure if this will help you out, but I wanted to share my experience with a similar program.

[Midnight Dream]

From research, and using numerous routers while having this similar issue, it seems that if too much traffic goes through at once, the router seems to "lock up", per-se. My only solution was to reset the router. Later, I got a smoothwall setup, which seemed to help the situation.

[Knacko]

If you free up more half-open ports, your internet should see a nice speed increase (and possibly torrents too).

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads

Download it, run it, set half-open ports to 80 and set net.max_halfopen: in uTorrent to 20 (under advanced tab). It worked well for me.