jimkyle
Btrieve Guy
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join:2002-10-20
Oklahoma City, OK
 ·AT&T Southwest
| reply to Neoprimal
Re: Is BitTorrent killing my AT&T DSL?
said by Neoprimal  :Edit: I forgot to mention that the DSL is stable when using just the modem. Bittorrents go mega slow, but at least I can also surf. I may end up buying a new dsl modem. If taking the router out of the circuit makes it work just fine, you don't need a new modem. What you need is a new router, preferably from some other vendor.
However before doing that you might try using some of the free third-party firmware, such as DD-WRT or Tomato, in your WRT54G instead of the "latest firmware" from Linksys. Your problem is a common one over on the Linksys forum and may well be due to a very limited connection stack in the Linksys firmware, which might be cured by going to one of the alternate builds.
Since I don't do torrents at all I have no personal knowledge of this -- but I'm certain that when taking a single component out of the circuit makes it work right, that component and no other is the cause of the problem.
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Jim Kyle |
