Utorrent interrupts wireless access?

TL DR

Hi, and thanks in advance.
My better half's laptop has been losing wireless signal seemingly at random since she got in on Xmas. We just noticed that it had been without problems for the entire day, and when I fired up Utorrent just after saying that, she lost her signal.

Router is a Linksys WRT54GS (dd-wrt). Any ideas on how to fix this (other than don't use Utorrent, I suppose).

Dírhael

Try reducing the number of connections that uTorrent is allowed to make, and make sure that you limit your upload speed to ~80% of your connections maximum (also limit your download speed to around 80-90%).

You would also be well served enabling QoS on your router. The DD-WRT firmware have nice instructions for how to configure this (if memory serves me right, I'm using the Tomato firmware now but I used to use DD-WRT) in the router ui itself.

Wetsun

Yeah, mass torrent connections fuck my wireless as well. Just play with the max connections until you get something stable.

Azio

Timothy Leary Come Check Out This Theory wrote: »

Router is a Linksys WRT54GS (dd-wrt).

There's your problem.

Natheo

Please elaborate on how his linksys router model number is his problem.

Azio

It's a terrible router and it can't handle bittorrent.

I figured that after six years and countless horror stories this had become common knowledge, but apparently not.

OremLK

I have a Motorola Surfboard and have the same exact problem. Running Bittorrent over Wi-Fi makes the whole router crash.

The only way I was able to solve it was to hook up a dedicated torrent box to a wired port on the router. Then it worked fine.

TM2 Rampage

Funny, I had this problem, except it was with BitComet.

Then I switched to uTorrent and had no more problems.


Actually, there were still problems with my modem lights turning off (therefore no connection). Eventually we called the cable guy over and he replaced all the coax cables in our house, and it seems to have solved the problem (couple months now with no probs...).

TL DR

Thanks for the feedback. For the record, the torrenting was on a wired connection.

Natheo

Azio wrote: »

It's a terrible router and it can't handle bittorrent.

I figured that after six years and countless horror stories this had become common knowledge, but apparently not.

Helpful!

Wetsun

Timothy Leary Come Check Out This Theory wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback. For the record, the torrenting was on a wired connection.

So, since I was having this same problem (on both wired and wireless connections to the router), I decided to install DD-WRT (mini) on my Linksys WRT54G last night.

Changing the firmware alone didn't immediately fix the issue, but I did notice the new setting for "IP Filter Settings/Maximum Ports" which was set to 512. Right below this it showed the currently active connections, and it was pretty obvious that this number needed to be much bigger while torrenting.

Anyway, DD-WRT + changing this setting from 512 to 2048 fixed all my issues with slowdown/death while torrenting (with 4 torrents + 2 machines running, I got up to around 1200 connections within a few minutes).

TL DR

Wetsun wrote: »

Timothy Leary Come Check Out This Theory wrote: »

Thanks for the feedback. For the record, the torrenting was on a wired connection.

So, since I was having this same problem (on both wired and wireless connections to the router), I decided to install DD-WRT (mini) on my Linksys WRT54G last night.

Changing the firmware alone didn't immediately fix the issue, but I did notice the new setting for "IP Filter Settings/Maximum Ports" which was set to 512. Right below this it showed the currently active connections, and it was pretty obvious that this number needed to be much bigger while torrenting.

Anyway, DD-WRT + changing this setting from 512 to 2048 fixed all my issues with slowdown/death while torrenting (with 4 torrents + 2 machines running, I got up to around 1200 connections within a few minutes).

Brilliant idea