Bittorrent & Router issues

**wonderboy2005** · March 5th, 2005, 09:15 AM

I don't download all that much - a gig or two a month at most. About 2 months ago, I got a netgear router so that I could use my new computer online. everything was peachy until I started using bittorrent with it. At first, I thought I had a NAT issue. I made sure everything was properly configured, and I even got azureus to tell me my connection was OK. Still, the problems persist. I currently have two large downloads in the process - one with 60+ seeds/1800+ Leechers, the other with 20+ seeds/170 leechers. Both are 'green.' However, the combined download speed of both rarely tops 15KB/s, less than half of my avalible bandwidth. meanwhile, my upload is constantly at ~22KB/s, a number I limited uploads to, thinking that uploading may be the issue.

Long story short, I've come to the conclusion that my router has to be the problem. In fact, if I leave bittorrent running overnight, I often awake to a router that has completely crapped out, devoid of any network traffic whatsoever. The "solution" to this is a hard reset of the router.

So I'm in the market for a better router. does anyone have success stories using bittorrent and a particular router?

BTW, for those of you who may want to konw, my router is a RP614 (v3) - its a $30 router, and I'm thinking that you get what you pay for when it comes to routers.

**crackerjacker** · March 5th, 2005, 09:40 AM

what firewall are you using, i use bittorent and since i have a router, and dont forward my ports at all i get a good steady download varyin from 30 - 40 kbs, because i upload on the donkey as well, and what not.

hmm
maybe its your software firewall, i could be wrong but hmm

**wonderboy2005** · March 5th, 2005, 09:47 AM

Firewall is not an issue. I am running 64 bit windows, for which there are no decent firewalls yet. Hence the router - it offers atleast some protection. I don't currently, bu have in the past, used windows firewall (ICF).

**RACKnRAIL** · March 5th, 2005, 10:53 AM

I use to have a netgear rp 614 router and port forwarded the appropriate ports and got great speeds. I now have a linksys wireless and don't have any problems with that router also. I am using TorrentStorm as a client. My friend has a netgear router for his box too and has good speeds. Have you tried running bittorrent without a router to see if in fact it is the router?

**bobhss** · March 5th, 2005, 10:54 AM

My wireless Compaq router kept crapping out on me as my router, so I switched it to be just an Access Point/Switch and have my Linksys 4port doing the routing function again. My Linksys doesn't have a problem, the compaq did.

**cpugeniusmv** · March 5th, 2005, 11:00 AM

I think the speeds you were getting on bittorrent would be normal for that kind of seeder/leecher ratio.

But the router locking up...shouldn't happen :-D I have a Linksys BEFSR41v3 at home...and it works fine. I haven't had any problems with it locking up like that.

On the other hand, my roommate has a Linksys wireless router, and it locks up quite frequently....

**wonderboy2005** · March 5th, 2005, 12:25 PM

I have not been able to try bit torrent with my PC connected directly to the net, simply because the wire isn't long enough. I was able to download at great speeds conected directly using my old computer before I got a router. I have yet to check if My old computer gets decent speeds now that I'm using a router - I might have to check that out.

In frustration, I have port-triggered every possible port for this PC, and port-forwarded a range of 10 ports, so I don't think forwarding/triggering is the problem, unless for some reason my router can handle all the ports open.

As for the speeds I mentioned above, those are best-case scenario. My current downloads frequently go below 4KB/s, and often stop completely for a short period of time. Meanwhile, my uploads are at a constant 20KB/s or greater.

edit: Since my first post, both downloads have turned 'yellow' in azureus, even though azureus states that the connection is "OK."

**anywaste** · May 8th, 2005, 05:19 AM

As far as the speeds and the yellow icons, I wouldn't worry about that. I've noticed that those things tend to vary a lot and often there doesn't seem to be that much of a correlation to seed peer ratio or to the number of seeds and peers. Sometimes I am dowloading something at 4kbs for 10 hours and then it jumps up to 30kps, and things like that.