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| Thread ID: 93536 | 2008-09-22 00:37:00 | uTorrent making browsing speed crawl | qazwsxokmijn (102) | Press F1 |
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| 706855 | 2008-09-22 02:18:00 | If it really is taking 5 minutes to reconnect the router might be on the way out, or exchange having congestion problems But utorrent's dl speed remains the same? Internet browsing is impossible and I can't even access the modem's 10.1.1.1 page. |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 706856 | 2008-09-22 02:21:00 | The fact you can't get to the router sounds like the routers hardware cannot handle the torrents. No idea why this would suddenly be happening though. Many routers I have used/seen/setup that cannot handle the concurrent connections of torrents do exactly the same thing. How many connections per torrent do you have setup and what it your global limit? |
dirtbag (6060) | ||
| 706857 | 2008-09-22 02:27:00 | How many connections per torrent do you have setup and what it your global limit? 50 and 200 respectively. I'm on go large (still). How many peers do you think I can be connected to, max, before all the peer connection will start hammering my speed? |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 706858 | 2008-09-22 02:34:00 | What router do you have? I would reduce the total connections to 150 and see if anything improves. Are you using vista or xp? |
dirtbag (6060) | ||
| 706859 | 2008-09-22 03:39:00 | The mysterious world of IT has once again taken another twist: all is fine again now. What the hell??!?!?! Thanks dirtbag. And everyone else! |
qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 706860 | 2008-09-22 04:04:00 | I've had the same problem when I have several torrents running at a time. It rarely happens when I have a single torrent running. I have found restarting the router helps (I also cannot access the router control page). I think it is due to the router being unable to handle the large volume of connections. Also, use a version of uTorrent no newer than 1.6.1. Versions after that were released after uTorrent was purchased by BitTorrent Inc (I think), which is own by Lionhead (Lions gate?) studios, Fox and several other major film studios. With the new versions, when you first load up, it contacts IPs owned by the major film studios. I'm not sure what it does, perhaps it notifies them what torrent files you have loaded up. Theres no reason you cant prove it it yourself; remove utorrent from your firewall allow list. Stop all torrents, close utorrent and reset your internet connection, so you can be sure any traffic going to and from utorrent is -not- torrent traffic. Start utorrent again and your firewall will ask you if you want to allow utorrent to connect to multiple IPs. As you have stopped all torrents, there should be no reason utorrent needs to access the internet. If you lookup the IP it tries to connect to, you will find they belong to the film studios that own BitTorrent inc. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 706861 | 2008-09-22 04:14:00 | I've had the same problem when I have several torrents running at a time. It rarely happens when I have a single torrent running. I have found restarting the router helps (I also cannot access the router control page). I think it is due to the router being unable to handle the large volume of connections. Also, use a version of uTorrent no newer than 1.6.1. Versions after that were released after uTorrent was purchased by BitTorrent Inc (I think), which is own by Lionhead (Lions gate?) studios, Fox and several other major film studios. With the new versions, when you first load up, it contacts IPs owned by the major film studios. I'm not sure what it does, perhaps it notifies them what torrent files you have loaded up. Theres no reason you cant prove it it yourself; remove utorrent from your firewall allow list. Stop all torrents, close utorrent and reset your internet connection, so you can be sure any traffic going to and from utorrent is -not- torrent traffic. Start utorrent again and your firewall will ask you if you want to allow utorrent to connect to multiple IPs. As you have stopped all torrents, there should be no reason utorrent needs to access the internet. If you lookup the IP it tries to connect to, you will find they belong to the film studios that own BitTorrent inc. none of that was actually proven, even with cash prizes put up by utorrent developers. no one could provide actual proof. The IPs mine contacts are for utorrent updates and a multicast address, which does not leave your lan. |
dirtbag (6060) | ||
| 706862 | 2008-09-22 05:35:00 | The best way to see (literally thousands!) connections being made when you use utorrent (or any p2p) is by using the free PeerGuardian (phoenixlabs.org) software - check it out and look at what it is blocking as you start and use utorrent etc - it will blow you away whats happening with connections "behind the scenes" :eek: | bevy121 (117) | ||
| 706863 | 2008-09-22 05:47:00 | Lionhead? Not sure, I know they're a game developer that produced the B&W and Fable series. | qazwsxokmijn (102) | ||
| 706864 | 2008-09-22 08:09:00 | qazwsxokmijn You just got to stop downloading porn dude, not only is it sucking your bandwidth dry but it will make you go blind:-) | Bantu (52) | ||
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