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Re: [BT] Bit Torrent download stops my Internet HELP!!

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I'm trying cfosSpeed now. This problem is highly annoying. I'm constantly on voice-comm programs + online multi-players + downloading a TV/radio show here and there w/ BT. Then all of a sudden all connections crap out till I refresh the torrent. Highly annoying.

My question is why was this never a problem when I only had one PC and fed right off the cable modem? Ever since building a 2nd PC and setting up a home network I've had the problem.

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cfosspeed works....as long as I only get one torrent at time. Which isn't much improvement from before.

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You may be overflooding your state table. Is your BT clients connection port bound to only 1? Not all clients can do this, Azureus can and utorrent can be tricked into it. Great feature for routers. That'd be my guess on what's next since a function of cfosspeed is to prevent your upstream from getting overwhelmed. Of course it only works on the pc it is installed on for the most part unless it notices congestion from the other. So you may still have to bring down your upload if this is occuring in the instance you are using BT on 1 PC and using the other pc for other things and then it craps out. If this occurs when you just use BT and use the same pc on other things, then I'd look into binding outgoing to 1 port.

Edit: Also set cfosspeed to favor ping times. That's the one that works best for me. Then it'll adjust your packets when it notices pings going bad instead of trying to maximize bandwidth. I have a router and am on node_oversold.com so pings are of utmost concern and favoring them actually greatly increases my speed over favoring bandwidth.

Ive been fighting with this for awhile now. Lowered connections, changed clients, removed the router (wrt54g v2/tofu latest). With the router in place opening IE or Trillian on other systems on my network not running BT takes forever. With the router removed and only running the torrenting system I get the same thing. I've got a small bussiness connection from my Cable Co so its hardly slow or capped... only thing I can think of is the Motorola SB5120 modem. Could this be the cause of the slow down?

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Modems themselves can be cause of some trouble but this seems rather severe unless yours is defective. You can always swap for free. Ones the cable co lend are a bit cheap but usually do the job under normal circumstances. Otherwise, try setting the modem to bridge mode and connect the pc directly using windows DHCP. This will rule out the state table that may be in the modem itself. If DHCP is enabled in the modem, it essentially is using NAT just like a router, which could be the source of trouble. Try that and let us know what happens. DHCP can be evil in my experience.

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cfosspeed trial is over. So not using that. Installed uTorrent and have been using that. No problems whatsoever now. I was downloading 10 files at once the other day without a hiccup.

I guess if you still have this problem you could try uTorrent and see if it's better. It's either that or it was a network thing with Comcast that they fixed.

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Started happening to me about a week ago to. Before that almost 2 years no trouble at all.
Everything works just fine until I start using bittorrent (any client) 20~30 min later the connection dies.

"Ready" and "Cable" leds on the modem are fine so there is a signal but the "Receive" led is dead.

The only way to recover from this is to restart the Cable Modem.
I think a lot of ISP's forced some kind of funky Firmware update.

My modem is "Ambit"
So I was looking around and found this:
»www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&···nections
Not my ISP but still maybe mine has pushed the same funky Firmware.
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»theleet.blogspot.com

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