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| Thread ID: 85324 | 2007-12-06 20:37:00 | uTorrent seems to kill internet access | Geek4414 (12000) | Press F1 |
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| 618498 | 2007-12-06 20:37:00 | I was recently asked a question about uTorrent which I don't know anything about. uTorrent was installed couple of months ago and everything seem to work fine, until the past two weeks. Occasionally, everyone on the network lose 'all' access to the internet when uTorrent is running on one of the PC. Strangely, the PC with uTorrent running also lose all 'other' internet access, even though uTorrent is happily downloading and uploading to peers. Full internet access is retored on all PCs on the LAN shortly after uTorrent was shut down. So the problem is definitely related to uTorrent, however, it only started to happen in the last couple of weeks. Could this be caused by ... 1. Too many torrents running? 2. Not enough TCP connection in XPSP2, but if that's the case, why would it affect the other PCs on the LAN? 3. 3Com WiFi ADSL router cannot cope with the torrents? 4. Xtra clamping the Torrent traffic? But I've heard that uTorrent meant to encrypt the traffic? uTorrent itself still can download and upload at good speed (anywhere from 20KBps to 80KBps) when everyone else on the LAN lost internet access, so I guess Xtra can't be clamping it? Looking forward to hearing from all you Torrent experts out there. |
Geek4414 (12000) | ||
| 618499 | 2007-12-06 20:40:00 | Well I wouldnt rely on wireless. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 618500 | 2007-12-06 20:45:00 | I found this with mine as well. It's like uTorrent eats up all the bandwidth even when it's not downloading at full capasity. One website would take about 3 minutes to load. | Pourhommenz (104) | ||
| 618501 | 2007-12-06 20:46:00 | if its hogging the upload bandwidth, you wont be able to send any requests to any sites to get anything back, so utorrent could be taking up all the upload. try limiting it to a certain speed. or lowering the max number of connections that utorrent is allowed to make over all. play around with the number of total connections and connections per torrent. had the same issue with my crusty DSE XH1169 router, opening too many connections would cause it to get confused / overworked and it would drop the net connection. even if your's is not dropping the net connection, being that we in NZ have really small upload. unless you are on a max/max plan. it will be the problem. just don't try to download the entire net at the same time. I don't download anymore, but only grabbing 2 files at a time helped my situation, and limiting the upload per torrent to something reasonable like 6k/s may help. |
Cho (12330) | ||
| 618502 | 2007-12-06 20:51:00 | I was recently asked a question about uTorrent which I don't know anything about. uTorrent was installed couple of months ago and everything seem to work fine, until the past two weeks. Occasionally, everyone on the network lose 'all' access to the internet when uTorrent is running on one of the PC. Strangely, the PC with uTorrent running also lose all 'other' internet access, even though uTorrent is happily downloading and uploading to peers. Full internet access is retored on all PCs on the LAN shortly after uTorrent was shut down. So the problem is definitely related to uTorrent, however, it only started to happen in the last couple of weeks. Could this be caused by ... 1. Too many torrents running? 2. Not enough TCP connection in XPSP2, but if that's the case, why would it affect the other PCs on the LAN? 3. 3Com WiFi ADSL router cannot cope with the torrents? 4. Xtra clamping the Torrent traffic? But I've heard that uTorrent meant to encrypt the traffic? uTorrent itself still can download and upload at good speed (anywhere from 20KBps to 80KBps) when everyone else on the LAN lost internet access, so I guess Xtra can't be clamping it? Looking forward to hearing from all you Torrent experts out there. You may have set the upload limit too high. It could be that utorrent is saturating the upload which inevitably makes browsing or other online activities practically impossible. (some data must be sent in order for some to be recieved). I have a 128kbps (approx 15kB/s) upload speed, utorrent gets around 50kbps (6kB/s ?) and manages to download at a very good rate. You will need to play with the settings a bit since every connection can be quite different. Remember when downloading, data is uploading... it's the rules. |
jermsie (6820) | ||
| 618503 | 2007-12-06 20:51:00 | Well I wouldnt rely on wireless. Only one PC is connected via WiFi, the rest are all hardwired, so that's not the issue. |
Geek4414 (12000) | ||
| 618504 | 2007-12-06 20:54:00 | You may have set the upload limit too high. It could be that utorrent is saturating the upload which inevitably makes browsing or other online activities practically impossible. (some data must be sent in order for some to be recieved). I have a 128kbps (approx 15kB/s) upload speed, utorrent gets around 50kbps (6kB/s ?) and manages to download at a very good rate. You will need to play with the settings a bit since every connection can be quite different. Remember when downloading, data is uploading... it's the rules. Upload limit is all set to 1Kbps maximum, and there is usually only about 1 to 4KBps uploading at any one time. I don't think bandwidth is the issue, as it's downloading from anywhere between 20KBps to 80Kbps and occasionally exceed 100KBps; probably the actual number of peers connection combined? |
Geek4414 (12000) | ||
| 618505 | 2007-12-06 22:42:00 | I have just dumped uTorrent - connection speed was slow and frequently stopped due to "File in use by another process". Installed Azureus which shows none of these issues and up to 240 kb/s download in off peak times. |
rad_s4 (7401) | ||
| 618506 | 2007-12-06 22:51:00 | Azureus will cause probs too. If youre using a 64 bit system. It'll crash the system. My mate found that out, when he was running it on a 64 bit system.. The crashing stopped, when he uninstalled Azureus. |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 618507 | 2007-12-06 22:55:00 | Yip, as everyone else has said, decrease the upload speed to 6kbps or less, 6 is good, anything less and I believe it limits the download. With uTorrent, I upload at between 6 and 7 kbps, and download at anything between 20 and 250 kbps, depending on the tme of day. Browsing is still perfectly good, and I can watch youtube videos without too much hassle. :p | wratterus (105) | ||
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