Torrent Router

Rich43

Rich43

Rich43

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Hey.. were wondering whats the best router for handling tons of connections like for bittorrent and various filesharing.. needs to be reliable and powerful enough to handle what uTorrent throws at it! Its used in our family home and shared by a few computers.

Can you guys help us out?
 
Theres issues with some Linksys routers when you have a lot of traffic flow, Netgear are not any more reliable either.

The Draytek routers are better, but the price also reflects this......
 
I used to have issues with torrents too, kept crashing my router, Switched to a billion, and its been perfect ever since. Pretty cheap router considering its stability, and performance.
 
I cant seem to browse when Im downloading torrents, or at least browsing is very slow. Even when Im only using about 3 mbit of my 8 mbit connection. Could this be to do with my router? Belkin F5D7632-4
 
i use a draytek 2600+ router, no problems with it, when thousands of connections are open it does not crash like the old linksys one i had; wg54g i think.
 
weringo said:
I cant seem to browse when Im downloading torrents, or at least browsing is very slow. Even when Im only using about 3 mbit of my 8 mbit connection. Could this be to do with my router? Belkin F5D7632-4
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Its your upstream thats most likely to cause this, every bit of data needs to send data back, so limit your upload to less and it should be better.
 
it has been proven by tomshardware that lots of routers can only handle so many connections.. sometimes its only like 60... so need a good router for bittorrent.. thanks for the big help guys.. billion and draytek seem best.
 
I use Netgear 834N

Link below very stable and very fast, very easy interface for forwarding ports ect...

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-086-NG&groupid=46&catid=116&subcat=143
NW-086-NG_400.jpg
 
Linksys routers are rubbish are handling torrents unless you use 3rd party firmware, my old wired Linksys used to get killed all the time when you are connected to excessive amount of peers.

I now use a Linksys WRT54GL with DDWRT firmware, set it so it drops any inactive TCP/UDP connection and havent had any problems since.
 
I had this trouble with torrents on a netgear router.....switched to a speedtouch 585i v6 and not had to reboot yet :)
 
Most home routers will quickly die under the strain of torrents.

Billion 7300xx tend to be rather good, well so I've heard.
 
Corasik said:
I used to have issues with torrents too, kept crashing my router, Switched to a billion, and its been perfect ever since. Pretty cheap router considering its stability, and performance.
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Hi there what make of Billion router do u have ? and is it good on p2p ? :confused:
 
Corasik said:
I used to have issues with torrents too, kept crashing my router, Switched to a billion, and its been perfect ever since. Pretty cheap router considering its stability, and performance.
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Hi there what make of Billion router do u have ? and is it good on p2p ? :confused:
 
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