Net comes to a 10 minute halt when uTorrent is loaded

Scream · 19 Feb 2006 at 16:47

I'm using uTorrent and each time, I load uTorrent up, I more or less loose internet connection as nothing loads and I have to wait 5-10+ minutes before I can do anything with the net.

Its nothing to do with my bandwidth being maxed out for I might only be uploading 5k/s and dl 10k/s so plenty of bandwidth.

Its whatever uTorrent does when its loaded each time that causes the problem.

Is there any particular settings I should have in place such as number of connections etc? A pain in the backside it is and I don't want to use any other client as uTorrent is the best one I've used except for the this problem.

Thanks for any help.

NathanE · 19 Feb 2006 at 16:57

Change the uTorrent settings so that it only attempts 1 outgoing connection per second. This way it will prevent XP SP2's half-open TCP connection throttling (Event ID 4226) from kicking in.

Scream · 19 Feb 2006 at 18:05

My Global maximum number of connections is set to 250 and the Maximum number of connected peers per torrent is set to 90.

Is it the 250 I change cause thats the only reference in uTorrent to do with connections.

NathanE · 19 Feb 2006 at 18:20

Doesn't it have a setting to specify the number of connections it is allowed to make per second? Azureus does :confused:

The maximum number of connections is unrelated.

BTW, check your Event Viewer to see if the the 4226 event is occuring. If it is then we're on the right track...

Scream · 19 Feb 2006 at 18:24

Don't see such a setting unless I've gone blind. I'll look again though and will check the event viewer.

Scream · 20 Feb 2006 at 17:48

Event Viewer had many daily occurances of event 4226 so I found the patch to increase the limit to 50.

Problem is now solved so many thanks NathanE.

Cheers.

SwishSpencor · 20 Feb 2006 at 17:56

Scream said:
Event Viewer had many daily occurances of event 4226 so I found the patch to increase the limit to 50.

Problem is now solved so many thanks NathanE.

Cheers.

I have the same problem, where do i get this patch?

Scream · 20 Feb 2006 at 18:20

I'll find u the link now

Here it is Event 4226 Fix

SwishSpencor · 20 Feb 2006 at 18:52

Thanks

MR_Punk · 21 Feb 2006 at 15:47

me thanks you too!!

Fillado · 21 Feb 2006 at 16:56

uTorrent does have an ability to set the number of half-open connections, it's in the advanced options under net.max_halfopen.

If you've patched your system with the patch above then you can increase the limit to make you connect to peers a lot quicker.