K I don't use utorrent very often but when I do it slows the rest of the computers' connections on the network right down. Anyone know a way to fix this? I forwarded a port for utorrent on my Netgear WPN824v2, is there any settings I need to change on my router or in utorrent? Cheers
utorrent slowing the rest of the connection
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And then set a limit on your upload rate. Most of the time friends have experienced bandwidth issues when using bittorrent, it's down to the upload bandwidth being fully used which slows down everything.
Yes.
And then set a limit on your upload rate. Most of the time friends have experienced bandwidth issues when using bittorrent, it's down to the upload bandwidth being fully used which slows down everything.
Yes.
Yep, saturating your upstream will certainly slow your net down to a crawl.
Right, this is how it works as far as I understand.
If unrestricted, your torrent program will use all the upstream bandwidth available.
When you try to use the internet, to play a game, talk on MSN, or even visit a web page, you need to request information. Because the request is leaving your computer, you need upstream bandwidth to do this. But if your torrent is using all of it, your request won't get through, so the website doesn't know you want to load the page, for example.
Yes, thats probably an oversimplification.
Well, think of it like a crowd of people wanting to get into a shop. Say 100. But the door is only wide enough to let 1 through at a time. If 99 of those people are your bittorrent files uploading, and one of them is a request for a website to send information, its going to take a while for that one person to get through, by which time the request has probably timed out.
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Good_settings#Good_settings_based_upload_speed
That page may be designed for Azureus, but follow what it says to work out what upload speed you should set.
If unrestricted, your torrent program will use all the upstream bandwidth available.
When you try to use the internet, to play a game, talk on MSN, or even visit a web page, you need to request information. Because the request is leaving your computer, you need upstream bandwidth to do this. But if your torrent is using all of it, your request won't get through, so the website doesn't know you want to load the page, for example.
Yes, thats probably an oversimplification.
Well, think of it like a crowd of people wanting to get into a shop. Say 100. But the door is only wide enough to let 1 through at a time. If 99 of those people are your bittorrent files uploading, and one of them is a request for a website to send information, its going to take a while for that one person to get through, by which time the request has probably timed out.
http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Good_settings#Good_settings_based_upload_speed
That page may be designed for Azureus, but follow what it says to work out what upload speed you should set.
OK I understood it from your first paragraph and rather embarrased I didnt realise that. :/
Its usually worse for your connection if you max out upstream than downstream with torrents. If I want to use my computer for anything else I make sure my torrents can't use more than 50% of the available upstream band width.
Also if you have an off peak on peak broadband package I would configure utorrents schedular, even if you don't have offpeak its good to use to make sure you don't eat to much band width during times when you normally use your computer.
Also if you have an off peak on peak broadband package I would configure utorrents schedular, even if you don't have offpeak its good to use to make sure you don't eat to much band width during times when you normally use your computer.