Bizarre uTorrent/Chrome issues

Calneon · 21 Sep 2010 at 01:11

Got Virgin internet installed at my new house at university today (well, yesterday), but noticed that whenever I open up uTorrent and it starts downloading (might even just be opening the program, it's not based on how fast it's downloading/uploading), my browser stops getting any connection. It just gets the 'page cannot be found' page, like there was no connection (but there is, because uTorrent is downloading).

I have the same broadband provider at home (home home not uni home), and it worked perfectly there, but now I have this new connection at uni the two never work together. You turn uTorrent on, browser stops working, close uTorrent, it starts again.

I haven't done anything like trying a new torrent program yet, but I will do some time, just wanted to know what you guys thought the problem could be. Thanks.

OCdude · 21 Sep 2010 at 05:14

I'd imagine it's probably due to the amount of connections uTorrent is establishing. Have you tried limiting them in Options > Preferences > Bandwidth > "Number of Connections" ?

Crowort · 21 Sep 2010 at 07:32

OCdude is most likely right. uTorrent is likely using too many connections, and the router is unable to cope with the amount / turn over.

Calneon · 21 Sep 2010 at 18:14

I think that's the problem. However, it still does it even if i put max connections all the way down to 10 (was 300). Is the free router you get just really really bad?

Crowort · 22 Sep 2010 at 00:44

Did you reboot the router? Sometimes when they overflow they can take a long time to release.

It shouldn't be so bad that lowering all the way down to 10 doesn't fix it thou.

Have to tried limiting upload and download speed a bit too? It isn't maxing out your line is it?