I've been a uTorrent user for years. Not heavily, maybe a few shows a week at most. Whenever torrenting, my web browsing always slows to a crawl, even when the downloads are only pulling a partial amount of the total bandwidth. I assumed it was the number of connections and it was killing the router and generally I just walk away and come back later. Recently, it's started annoying me so I've screwed around with the preferences trying to make it better and nothing seems to help. Just now, while my other machine was bogged down, I cam down here and started playing on a newer laptop I have and noticed it isn't bogged down. It browses just fine. So....where is the choking at? Is it something on my desktop client side or is it in the router dealing with the connection to my desktop? I have one of the neutered 54Gs, I think v4. I have GL I play with from time to time with dd-wrt. Is it work using that and seeing if there is a change and maybe fiddle with some of it's QoS settings?

11/21/2008 10:30:36 AM

limit the upload speed.

on my machines torrents max out the upload so browser requests can't get thru

edit: i didn't see that the other machine is working, so that's weird


[Edited on November 21, 2008 at 11:02 AM. Reason : idk]

11/21/2008 11:01:29 AM

limit the upload to less than 20 kb/s (assuming Twc)

11/21/2008 11:11:36 AM

the lowest you can go on utorrent and not have your download capped, too, is 6kbps

11/21/2008 11:41:24 AM

just use the bloated azureus - you can drop it down to 2-3 kb/s without affecting your download speed

11/21/2008 11:47:03 AM

It's not the aggregate bandwidth through the TWC pipe that seems to be the problem. My desktop will slow to a crawl with connections to google.com completely timing out. I can browse on the laptop just fine while this is happening. I think I already have the upload bandwidth capped at like 60k or something. It's clearly something that is swamping either the hardware on my desktop or the hardware at the router. But I'm a little bit stuck at this point trying to figure out which is which short of just trying a different router. Now that I think about, I actually seem to remember having these sorts of issues with the GL running dd-wrt, which I guess would point to the network card on my desktop so maybe I'll try and play with it there. Just wondering if anyone else has experienced similar issues.

11/21/2008 12:17:14 PM

60k?? I can barely hit 30 before it kills my connection

11/21/2008 12:20:03 PM

also try limiting the number of connections your torrent program can make. i dont know the specifics as to why, but it just seems to overload the router

11/21/2008 1:36:22 PM

Some more data. It isn't upload bandwidth issues. I grabbed an Entourage torrent just now and with it downloading at about 60k and uploading at 10k it was choking, my laptop is still fine. If I have a google search up and fire off a few tabs in Firefox, the CPU usage will run in the 30-50% range and just sit there, and the links eventually time out. I didn't check what CPU useage was without Firefox up. The connections settings with this test were 1500 global with 50 upload slots. I'm about to try again with that number greatly reduced.

My network controller is the built in nforce controller for this board I have (can't remember exact version, but it's housing a 939 XP 3000+)

I've googled a little to see if there is something up with my particular networking controller, but I haven't found anything yet.

Edit

Looks like its the controller
http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=2599

Gonna try a different client. Are there any other light clients out there or should I just snag Azureus?

[Edited on November 21, 2008 at 4:54 PM. Reason : .]

11/21/2008 4:49:07 PM

i'm not incredibly computer savvy, but what is your hard drive set-up like? I can imagine that reading/writing several video files at once can slow down your machine with a single hard drive

11/24/2008 2:16:20 AM

^I mean this in the best possible way, but no, that is not something he should waste time investigating. Even disks from the mid-90s should be able to handle the ~1MB/sec you can get from RoadRunner on the best seeded torrent in the world without impacting performance.

11/24/2008 2:23:57 AM