Torrents killing my internet connection

[Gilles Gravier]

Just limit on your BitTorrent client the maximum number of simultaneous
connections to about 100 or 150 (or less if others are also using
BitTorrent on that same router).

Gilles.

On 25/05/2010 09:52, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> On Mon, May 24, 2010 20:44, Jeroen T. Bezemer wrote:
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>> On 24/05/10 05:49, slowertraffickeepright at mail.com wrote:
>>     
>>> No, I rent a room where I live. Router is in someone else's room, so I
>>> never plug in. Thanks again for your help so far!
>>>       
>> well, that could mean your Atheros wifi-card is flakey, or the router is
>> rejecting you, either because of the torrents, or because it is out of
>> memory due to all incoming connections.
>>     
> It could also be that the router doesn't like a huge amount of half open
> TCP connection, and gives up (hangs or crashes). I have seen this with
> several 'el cheapo' routers. Sometimes they don't even need a reboot to
> recover, just give it a couple of minutes and they will be back alive,
> when all the thousands of connections have stopped.
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