Slow network/speeds but BT download good, everything else dies

[chrisrat]

Hello,
Sorry I couldnt see any other posts like mine an im quite confused!!!

My BTs download great, usually max out my bandwidth but the problem is it kills my whole network.

Ill give you an example, right now BT is going, only half bandwidth but there arnt many peers to get it from. so my download is 35k a second.
Im using ABC BT btw.

I have a small network,
Cable internet connection, smoothwall router/firewall and a Kingston switch.

On the network i have a webserver(internal and external) an exchange server for the clients inside on the 192.168.0.XX range.

When BT is open the whole network dies. Any computers trying to browse the internet get say 1 or 2 k downloads and web pages are incredibly slow. And no this isnt just when the ABS is downloading at full wack. I have 90 odd k to play with, currently downloading at 35 k roughly(35k in bit torrent and a few more K in Bandwidth monitor so there or there abouts) and the network is poor. I have BT running on another PC and im on my laptop. Im trying to access the exchange server through outlook and it keeps timing out. If i close ABC, runs perfectly. This is running over a 100Meg switch.... I have gthe ports forwared in my Smoothwall to the IP of the desktop machine running the BT client and no other firewall in place. I have upgraded to the latest ABC but this has happened ever since i started using it 3 months or so ago and a few different versions of it. I cant make any sence of it.....

Any help or a push in the right direction would be a great help!!!! Cheers,

Chris

[lal2707]

I am using BitComet version 0.56 using a Belkin 802.11g wireless router F5D7630-4A model on a XP prod SP2 PC - I get very slow speeds trying to download anything. Can someone please tell me how to set up port forwarding on the router to speed up downloads and what I need to set up in the client software in Preferences. I have looked at various sites/forums but they always seem to focus on LInksys and DLink routers

many thanks in advance

[hawkburn]

This will tell you how (page 35)

http://web.belkin.com/support/download/files/F5D7630_Manualx.pdf

Youll want to forward ports 6881-6889 TCP to your local IP. To find your local IP, Click Start>Run> type cmd.exe and hit enter. Type ipconfig /all and find IP Address: it should be 192.168.2.x where x is either a 1,2, or 3 digit value (e.g. 1, 10, 100) Then put that number in the blank where it says LAN IP address in the port forwarding configuration.