Torrents forcing my router to reboot

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I've got a BT Homehub 3 with Infinity. I don't usually torrent, however I am trying to download a couple of files. And every now and then the Homehub resets itself. If I turn off the torrent everything's OK.

Is it a faulty router or do I need to change any settings in the router?
 
Most routers don't handle torrents too well, typically they cycle a lot of connections very fast eventually tying up all resources forcing the router to crash/reboot.
 
try reducing the max number of peers your client can connect to, you probably only need about 30-40 but the default settings for your client could have it set to 200+
 
Rroff said:
Most routers don't handle torrents too well, typically they cycle a lot of connections very fast eventually tying up all resources forcing the router to crash/reboot.
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Its not the router its the line,
Routers only crash as they over heat having to recover data that is damaged by line issues,
 
steven_belfast said:
Its not the router its the line,
Routers only crash as they over heat having to recover data that is damaged by line issues,
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That's utter tosh.
It's a VERY well known fact that the homehubs are garbage and will crap out with much more than 100 concurrent connections.
I've also seen them fall over flat when attempting to download large amounts of data.
lowering your systems MTU can "sometimes" correct that but its very hit and miss.

The home hubs are made cheap and a designed for mom and pop browsing and emailing, anything more serious and they develop serious reliability issues.
 
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Reduce the number of connections. I believe I had around 20-30 when we had the BT homehub but that's long gone :p

It's a common problem with those routers, a quick google will tell you to reduce connections/get new router.
 
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Venares said:
That's utter tosh.
It's a VERY well known fact that the homehubs are garbage and will crap out with much more than 100 concurrent connections.
I've also seen them fall over flat when attempting to download large amounts of data.
lowering your systems MTU can "sometimes" correct that but its very hit and miss.

The home hubs are made cheap and a designed for mom and pop browsing and emailing, anything more serious and they develop serious reliability issues.
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Homehub router are one of the best isp routers you can get,
Then are just branded thomson boxes,
Thomson are great routers and many isps use them, BT,Ukonline,BE,O2 and many more.

I have had BT HH's for many years and never had a issue not only that had a BT HH 2.0 piggy backed off my o2 router for wireless N and never had a issue due to the error correction they use.
 
steven_belfast said:
Its not the router its the line,
Routers only crash as they over heat having to recover data that is damaged by line issues,
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Average residential router is based on one or other flavor of *nix, usually something like BSD and one thing they almost all have in common is the problems with FIN_WAIT states, with the rapid connection cycling common with torrents you quickly end up with a lot of connections hanging up in FIN_WAIT2 until default timeout (which is often left at 10 minutes) or even permanently stuck in FIN_WAIT until you end up with all or a large number of connections tied up, causing the router to become unresponsive or actually crash - sometimes due to the cpu/memory useage of so many timed out connections.

Reducing the number of connections in a torrent client can help a bit but usually just holds off the inevitable a little longer as most torrents involve a lot of connection cycling, often establishing and dropping a connection to the same peer several times over with a few minutes.
 
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