torrents killing browser activity (bt home hub)

Cutshaw · 14 Mar 2009 at 22:54

I understand about capping upload speeds, so it's nothing to do with that. I've got plenty spare.

After starting a torrent browsing is just dead, after a time it picks back up. Unfortunately I've never timed it, but torrent speed has nothing to do with. Someone suggested to me it might be the amount of connections my router is set to handle and how long expiration of the connections is adjusted for.
This made sense, but I couldn't see anywhere to up max connections or change how long they last in the home hub. I hope this makes sense, I spent some time at the pub

tolien · 14 Mar 2009 at 23:23

It's within your torrent client you need to change the number of connections it makes.

Cutshaw · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:08

Why that never occurred to me before... I dunno. It seems to have worked, though. I cut the connections in half on my torrent client, and I'm going to keep bumping them up till I find a limit. Thanks.

ants83 · 15 Mar 2009 at 00:18

do you have nod32 and u torrent? there is an issue with these two if thats your problem

Rabtech · 15 Mar 2009 at 07:07

If your using a torrent program:

1) Set your maximum number of global connections to 180
2) Maximum number of connected peers per torrent to 60
3) Upload slots per torrent to 8
4) Make sure your upload is set to 80% of your upstream (no more than this either), put in 25KB/s if your not sure

Post back how you get on

sparkey196 · 15 Mar 2009 at 08:37

I had this problem with my netgear. I fixed it by logging into the router and disabling deep packet inspection in the firewall config. Maybe the home hub has something similar.

Doonhamer · 15 Mar 2009 at 11:35

ants83 said:
do you have nod32 and u torrent? there is an issue with these two if thats your problem

Their is? What sort of issue?

suarve · 15 Mar 2009 at 19:26

ants83 said:
do you have nod32 and u torrent? there is an issue with these two if thats your problem

There is?

Have both og these on my xp laptop.