Torrent Problems, connection collapses

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Seirrah

Seirrah

I've had a problem with using torrents for many many months, and I've been unable to fix it.

When using any torrent program my connection can just drop to 0kB/s (despite still being connected). It will usually take 10 to 20 seconds to fix itself and come back to normal.
Needless to say I've played about with many options in the client especially the number of connections and the download and upload speeds. I've been unable to get rid of the problem. Also I never seem to get any good speeds, even on torrents which are seeded well, despite having a 10Mbps connection. I'm using a port at around 55000, and the programs I have tried are Azereus and BitComet.

I have WinXP, up to date with the windowsupdate (I have also applied the fix to increase the number of connections above the 10 allowed.)

I've tried utorrent on my laptop on my home network and I'm getting the same problem, albeit with a better download speed.
This rules out my desktop pc's network card, so it must be my router or ntl modem/connection. As I had this problem before the router it must be my connection.... no ?


Very odd, very annoying.
 
you say after 10 - 20 seconds it comes back? that could just be the nature of torrents. When there are few peers speeds slow, sometimes to 0 until more peers begin to DL that file and upload it to you. Used to happen to me a lot while downloading large files over long periods of time.
 
My whole connection can 'crash', despite it still being conected in the notifcation area. The drop in speed is due to this, and not a seeding problem. Sorry if I was unclear.
 
So I.E/ FF and other apps slow to 0 aswell as your torrent? sounds like your maxing out the connections your router can take and it's just falling over.
 
This isn't wireless.


The modem has a model number 60194E-A12, 'ntl home 100'.
 
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I have this problem too with my ntl120 modem. I'm calling ntl for a new modem next week as the 120 I have doesn't support my 10mb connection very well (especially when it comes to torrents).

What speed connection do you have?
 
I would second the call to reduce the number of concurrent connections your bit torrent client is making.

A lot of bit torrent clients allow for this setting to be changed, and a lot of consumer level hardware will have trouble if you're allowing the number of connections to be high (basically consumer equipment tends not to be designed to deal with hundreds of connections at once, especially when downloading at highish speeds).

You could also be seeing problems due to your upload speed, remember you need to allow for the ack packets to be sent when you receive data, without those your download will stall (so set your upload to something like 200-300kb if your upload bandwidth is 512kb).

Finally, if you're using a firewall on the Desktop but not the Laptop, try turning it off ;) (and trying another one)
I found Zone Alarm was badly affecting my download speeds when it was turned on (capping it at about 2-3mb).
 
Dru said:
I have this problem too with my ntl120 modem. I'm calling ntl for a new modem next week as the 120 I have doesn't support my 10mb connection very well (especially when it comes to torrents).

What speed connection do you have?
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I have 10Mbps.


I've tried lowering the number of connections, and reducing upload speed etc ...they don't really have much of a difference.

I can only think that it's my cable modem :confused:
 
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