Torrents killing my internet connection

[Graham Todd]

On Sun, 23 May 2010 21:04:35 -0400
slowertraffickeepright at mail.com uttered these words:

> Upgraded to 10.04 UNR. Acer Aspire One. Torrents worked fine until
> the upgrade. I've tried qtorrent too, same thing. Everything works
> for about 5 minutes, then my Internet goes out completely. 
> 

Some questions:

1. Is your ISP in the UK?
2. Is it any one on Virgin Media's companies?
3. Have you recently downloaded your .iso file of (K)ubuntu through
torrent?
4. Have you downloaded software/music/videos lately?

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Graham Todd