Caporegime
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- 13 May 2003
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Hi all
We have a five year old Belkin cable router on our Virgin 20Mb connection.
I'm using uTorrent and it's always been the case that, when downloading torrents, even if the transfer speeds are slow, browsing and any other internet usage is impossible with pages frequently failing to load entirely and Outlook failing its send / receive operations. If however I'm maxing a FTP connection to a website, browsing remains perfectly good.
I assume then that this is down to the manner in which torrent traffic bombards my network. I've tried reducing max connections to 100 in uTorrent and this helps somewhat, but I still get pages failing to load or loading VERY slowly.
- Would a new router solve this problem?
- If so, what should I go for (must be wireless)? I have a max of £100 to spend, but since it's a relatively simple home network, if I could get away with spending less I will.
Thanks a bunch.
P.S. In before 'torrents are for noobs'
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We have a five year old Belkin cable router on our Virgin 20Mb connection.
I'm using uTorrent and it's always been the case that, when downloading torrents, even if the transfer speeds are slow, browsing and any other internet usage is impossible with pages frequently failing to load entirely and Outlook failing its send / receive operations. If however I'm maxing a FTP connection to a website, browsing remains perfectly good.
I assume then that this is down to the manner in which torrent traffic bombards my network. I've tried reducing max connections to 100 in uTorrent and this helps somewhat, but I still get pages failing to load or loading VERY slowly.
- Would a new router solve this problem?
- If so, what should I go for (must be wireless)? I have a max of £100 to spend, but since it's a relatively simple home network, if I could get away with spending less I will.
Thanks a bunch.
P.S. In before 'torrents are for noobs'
