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| Thread ID: 126028 | 2012-08-02 23:42:00 | Eee PC kills my router when downloading | dugimodo (138) | Press F1 |
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| 1292414 | 2012-08-02 23:42:00 | Ok so this is a bit of a weird one, I recently grabbed an Eee PC 1000HD from one day for $299 because it seemd cheap for a netbook. Now that I've got it I'm not really sure what I'm going to do with it but I thought I might image the XP home installation as a backup and then see how Linux runs on it. So I installed uTorrent and qued up Ubuntu (not sure it's the best choice but that's not the issue) and after about 5 mins my router stopped communicating with my network, all the lights are green but no internet connectivity and I can't access the router either. The only way to restore internet is to reboot the router. After a few tries I discovered it happens every time I launch a torrent on this machine. Either of my other 2 PC's running Windows 7 can download with Utorrent just fine without this issue. I tried limiting connections in uTorrent and played with a few settings and then copied all the settings from my other PC, when that failed I unistalled it and tried Vuze (yuck) which did exactly the same thing. So now I'm stumped, it's not a huge issue because I can use one of the other machines but I'd kinda like to know what the problem is. Any geniuses out there got an Idea? The eee PC is a Mobile celeron 900 with 1GB of RAM, a 160GB hdd, and runs XP Home with all the updates. Connecting Via Wireless, tried Ethernet once and I think it did the same thing but I might need to test that a bit more. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1292415 | 2012-08-03 00:26:00 | Why use a torrent program at all ??? they can sometimes invite problems. Why not download directly www.ubuntu.com | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1292416 | 2012-08-03 01:08:00 | if you can't access it from any machine it might just be overheating and crashing. Have you tried with ethernet only and the other two clients unplugged? |
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| 1292417 | 2012-08-03 01:21:00 | I agree with 8ftmetalhaed. I have a firewall that would crash under the load from Torrents (which I no longer do). I tried patching the firewall first, which was a pain, as it wiped it's settings. Luckily I had written them all down, to a text file. However it still crashed. Evenentually I opened the case, drilled holes above the CPU in the case, and the problem went away. |
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| 1292418 | 2012-08-03 04:11:00 | Yeah I can just avoid torrents, but I occasionally find them useful. It's only this one machine and it kills the router every time, regardless of whether the other machines are on or off. It also happens on both ethernet and wireless exactly the same. The router isn't particularly hot as far as I can tell and doesn't have a problem if I avoid this one activity on this one machine. The router is an NB6plus4Wn and has been rock solid until I tried this, I have quite a lot hanging off it - 2x 5 port GigE switces, 2 x windows 7 machines, TiVo, PS3, onkyo receiver, Smartphone, tablet, Multifunction laser, and now the Netbook. Looking at that list maybe I need to stop buying stuff, but everything else works fine. I have gone around the problem by using a different machine but I would like to know what causes it. It's not worth too much effort though, I was just hoping someone might know the reason. |
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