said by inGearX :

one way is to try to for the queue

said by danry25 :

Alcohol is right

said by Alcohol :

Alcohol is the solution to all your problems.

said by danry25 :

Alcohol is right, you should increase the number of active torrents in your queue. Also don't forget to bump up the maximum number of active connections and run the half open fix from »half-open.com/ . Just to warn you, I have found that the average torrent in a group of 100+ active torrents needs 2 to 3 active connection slots per torrent for best performance. So for 5000 torrents 10000 connections should work well. The only problem is the average Linksys, D-link or Netgear router crashes at 2000 open connections. I used to have to reset my router every 12 hours until I bought a used enterprise router in Seattle for under what a new Linksys router would have cost. Whatever you do, do not increase your half open connection limit above 100. Best of luck!

said by danry25 :

A Linksys router can handle 200 to 300 normal connections before freezing up and becoming unusable, so ideally you should set ed2k eMule to 200 connections if it is the only P2P application running.

When you open a website you open 1 or more half open connections. When a P2P program requests a connection with a peer it opens a half open connection, that connection becomes a normal connection when the other computer responds. Have you looked at »half-open.com/ ?

My setup is a Enterasys VH-2402S 24 port switch attached to a AR-430w router with DD-WRT on the router. I have dedicated an old computer to DHCP so I can open 100,000+ connections. I got my Enterasys switch for $20 at a local electronic liquidation outfit. My Airlink AR-430w was $15 at Frys, and my DHCP computer I bought for $5 at a garage sale, put Red Hat Linux on it and installed a DHCP program on it. My DHCP computer is a 500mhz AMD K-6 box with 256mb of ram and a CD drive.

Linksys routers lock up when too many connections are open, because either their ram will fill up with logged connections and/or the active connections which are tracked for a couple milliseconds take up all of the router cpu resources.

Anymore questions?

said by TOPDAWG :

I was thinking utorrent had a setting where if a torrent was not going at a speed you set it moves to the next one. I seem to remember that setting. I'll look when I go home for launch today.

said by danry25 :

You could put DD-WRT on your router, and if you use Google then you can find one of the hundreds of tutorials on how to properly configure your DD-WRT router for torrents. That should solve your problem.

said by pfSense :

Large state tables - State table entries require about 1 KB of RAM each. The default state table, when full at 10,000 entries, takes up a little less than 10 MB RAM. For large environments requiring state tables with hundreds of thousands of connections, ensure adequate RAM is available.