utorrent make my network very slow!

wesley · 29 Aug 2006 at 18:11

i recently start to use utorrent but no matter what i do in utorrent setting, slow internet browsing, even slow browsing in netgear webGUI as well!

i've set the upload speed to 10kb/s, still slow!! NAT test passed :confused:

been using Azureus for long time and never got this problem.

what could make utorrent slow down the whole network?

cheers

osc89er · 29 Aug 2006 at 18:19

Could utorrent be holding too many connections open, and your router cannot handle it?

Sinizterguy · 29 Aug 2006 at 18:19

Check the number of concurrent connection allowed per torrent.

If that is high, it might slow down the network even if your upload speeds are set lower.

wesley · 29 Aug 2006 at 18:44

wow much better

thank you

Albaba · 29 Aug 2006 at 19:03

I get this prob too, utorrent is set to 100 connex per torrent....

What would be a more reasonable number without impacting my download speed too much?

Thanks

Albaba

wesley · 30 Aug 2006 at 08:43

try this

250 for Global maximum nunber of connections

50 for maximum number of connected peers per torrent

tolien · 30 Aug 2006 at 14:47

How many works for you will depend on how much RAM your router has, and how well it handles expired connections. In other words, trial and error are your friends.

jbloggs · 30 Aug 2006 at 15:13

tolien wrote:

how much RAM your router has

Very interesting, was not aware that a router had any, so we learn something new everyday.

tolien · 30 Aug 2006 at 15:29

Hardly a great shock is it - where did you think it stored its data?

For what it's worth

WRT54GS v1.1 said:
Mem: 15464K used, 14772K free, 0K shrd, 1572K buff, 5624K cached

Cisco 877 said:
Cisco 877 (MPC8272) processor (revision 0x200) with 118784K/12288K bytes of memory.

Jimbo · 30 Aug 2006 at 16:26

I get major slow down if I dont set max upload rate to say 40. If I leave it on 0 (unlimited) it slooows everything down.

oddjob62 · 30 Aug 2006 at 19:31

jbloggs said:
Very interesting, was not aware that a router had any, so we learn something new everyday.

How do you think it remembers its NAT tables??... even a network switch has memory.

jbloggs · 30 Aug 2006 at 20:27

oddjob62 wrote:

How do you think....

That's just it, I didn't "think" about it before, until it was mentioned in this post.

It's called the learning process, even tolien and youself go through it.

oddjob62 · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:08

jbloggs said:
oddjob62 wrote:

That's just it, I didn't "think" about it before, until it was mentioned in this post.

It's called the learning process, even tolien and youself go through it.

Nah.... we were born knowing everything

tolien · 30 Aug 2006 at 21:58

oddjob62 said:
Nah.... we were born knowing everything

<geekmode>Like a Goa'uld - got knowledge from the queen?

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