Utorrent Destroying Connection?

Supra

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Anyone else experience this? After I have fully downloaded whatever I need to, seems my internet connection takes a serious hit, and I have absolutly no connection. Most of the time it takes a good hard reboot of the router and modem. I dont get it, I looked up and did all the tweeks to optimize the prefs on utorrent client. I download fast if there are a lot of peers, however after its done my internet is just non existent. So I have to shut utorrent down, then reset router and modem like I said. I have a cable modem. On my speed test with speak easy my Mbbs is over 25k. Any thoughts.
 
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Same here pm me, utorrent always jacks up my connection.
 
there are bad version of this client the only stable one is 1.6. what vesion are you running. also make sure you up speed is not max out when using. reduce you up speed and try not to use all you downspeed as well. both those factors tend to help.
 
i love utorrent...never had any of these crazy ass problems you guys are talking about and never gotten a letter from comcast
 
I'm running 1.8.5. I lowered my up and dl speed but it still consumes all my bandwidth even after disconnect.
 
Im betting you have a router. Whats happening is internet devices/os's were never designed for how torrents use the internet. Torrents open tons of connections at the same time because of the nature of swarm downloading. As you open more and more, and drop other connections, the connection still remains open for a bit before it goes away. This basically keeps your computer or the router from being able to open new connections. Theres a few things you can do to mitigate this. Change how long connections remain open after they are done. Allow more connections on the router and the OS. And a band aid fix would be to just reset your router when it gets clogged, and disable/reenable your connection from the OS if it still is clogged.
 
Any problems with utorrent can be traced to shitty routers, and shittily configured routers.

I've never heard of a cable modem which crashes / lags, but I've heard of plenty of issues that have to do with shitty routers / shitty configurations.

Unfortunately, the only solution which I can confirm works is to get a WRT54GL (or a WRT54G before they decided that their product was too good and started producing buckets of urine instead, check on the series of tubes for which versions are affected) and flash it with DD-WRT or Tomato (I use Tomato because DD-WRT just felt less-responsive) and then go configure it properly by setting count/timeouts for TCP/UDP drops etc.

Of course, if you are on a university network or otherwise do not have full control of the route until your cable modem/ISP endpoint, you are fucked. In the latter case, you should consider anti-depressants.

P.S. Oh btw some wireless cards (including integrated ones in laptops) can also be the shit, but usually that causes connectivity problems all around - so if you can otherwise play games fine (or enjoy performing other ping-intensive tasks without problems), my bet is on your router.
 
Make sure that you are not "seeding". I have utorrent (so I could get ProjectReality). I noticed the same thing until I turned off seeding and told it not to autostart with windows.
 
Those who are using torrent clients should've read "torrents 101" but here goes anyway:

The very first thing to do when you launch your torrent client (utorrent or any other - they all support this feature) is to set the upload limit to at most 80% of your sustained internet connection upload. In most cases, the sustained upload is about 100KB/s, so you should set your upload speed to no more than ~80KB/s (50KB/s is better to be safe), otherwise your ping will be measured in the seconds, no online gaming will be possible whatsoever, and web pages will load very slowly.

If you have everything properly configured and a stable router, you can game while torrenting just fine (I do it all the time).
 
I have had this problem with Frostwire. I have noticed when i run multiple downloads my cable bottlenecks and it causes backlash to the connection.
If i go over my cable lines download speed it cuts me off and i have the same issue,
needing to reset the cable router.
I solved this by limiting the total download amount and have had zero problems.
My download speeds were kept under 1500 k per second total.
Depending on what you shelled out for internet your max may be much higher...
 
I've never "choked" my download with torrents...

It's been maxed out sometimes, but it doesn't cause any lag or problems really...
 
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