utorrent strangling my net

LewisStuart

LewisStuart

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When I'm running utorrent my main pc my network crawls basically to a halt, by this I mean it takes ages to log into the router (WRT54G running DD-WRT v23 SP2) & web browsing is painfully slow & usually times out, but transferring files between two pc's is unaffected. I've set the upload limit to 30k/s

Can someone tell me the optimal settings for app & router using blueyonder 4MB (384k up)

Apart from that utorrent is great :)
 
I had a similar problem, try reducing the number of simultaneous connections in uTorrent...worked for me :)
 
LewisStuart said:
When I'm running utorrent my main pc my network crawls basically to a halt, by this I mean it takes ages to log into the router (WRT54G running DD-WRT v23 SP2) & web browsing is painfully slow & usually times out, but transferring files between two pc's is unaffected. I've set the upload limit to 30k/s

Can someone tell me the optimal settings for app & router using blueyonder 4MB (384k up)

Apart from that utorrent is great :)
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Well if you have 384k up as in half of a 512k connection up then 30kb/s will be practically your whole internet.

Also, as suggested above, limit the connections... although I would have though that'd slow the download down?
 
same-ish problem here, only suddenly started a few weeks ago too, i dont understand it :( utorrent is uploading fine, but hardly download comes in, when utorrent is running every computer on the networks internet is basically unuseable, sometimes even requires a router restart to even make the net worth using again :mad:

currently im looking into if its my nic causing it, but i doubt it
 
Don't use more than around 50% of your upload bandwidth, and reduce the amount of connections until your router can cope. There is no set figure for this because all routers are different.

If the only problem is slow downloads but uploads are fast, try using encryption in case your ISP is traffic shaping.
 
Drop your global upload to 10kbps if you're seeding or downloading while you are browsing. If you seed exclusively during nights then just up your upload to 20kbps until your machine is in use again.

I've never had any bandwidth issues with bt clients. They just need a bit of setting up and you're sorted.
 
Kainz said:
Drop your global upload to 10kbps if you're seeding or downloading while you are browsing. If you seed exclusively during nights then just up your upload to 20kbps until your machine is in use again.

I've never had any bandwidth issues with bt clients. They just need a bit of setting up and you're sorted.
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It isn't just about the upload speed. Your router is probably a good one :) Cheaper routers fall over when asked to handle p2p duties, with the p2p clients at their default connections settings.
 
dirtydog said:
It isn't just about the upload speed. Your router is probably a good one :) Cheaper routers fall over when asked to handle p2p duties, with the p2p clients at their default connections settings.
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We had a WRT54G in the first year of uni and we had to keep resetting it... its because it remembers connections for about 10 days, and with p2p and you've got it set to 1000 connections it trys to track them all, and it ends up getting slower and slower. Reduce the number of connections and you should be ok... just reset the router like once a week and you'll be fine.
 
bledd. said:
set your upload to 10
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It's got nothing to do with the upload.

Which router are you using? I had a simlar problem with a Netgear one, overweired it worked fine, but when I was using utorrent on wireless, all the wireless connections just slowed down, I had to change from utorrent to cure the problem.
 
I've managed to sort this by limiting the global maximum connections to 150 from 230.

Yeah, it's nothing to do with upload limit as 30k/s is fine for 384k, netmeter will hover around 38 - 40k/s upload mark, browsing is a touch slower but still perfectly usable. :)
 
Unless the reason for slow (or non-existent) browsing is that the router is overwhelmed trying to handle too many connections :)
 
bledd. said:
the less upload of the connection thats being used, the better browsing will be
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LewisStuart said:
it takes ages to log into the router
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Unless the internet connection's faster than the connection between the machine and the router, it's got nothing to do with the upload rate. dirtydog's bang on the money.
 
MagicalTrevor said:
We had a WRT54G in the first year of uni and we had to keep resetting it... its because it remembers connections for about 10 days, and with p2p and you've got it set to 1000 connections it trys to track them all, and it ends up getting slower and slower. Reduce the number of connections and you should be ok... just reset the router like once a week and you'll be fine.
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I'm fairly sure this is not an issue with the ddwrt firmware. That is not to say that it could not be some other router problem.
 
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