Azureus , Utorrent , BT , Killing my Browsing Speed!

**CrashPeer44** · February 22nd, 2006, 09:48 AM

Help!
I have Been a Bit Torrent user since the early days of SuprNova and have NEVER had this problem.
When I have a transfer for BT (Even if it is going at about 10KB down/up) open in the two clients I use, Utorrent or Azureus. When i open up FireFox or even IE, My browsing speeds are slow and downloads will not go over 20KB/sec. If I turn BT off all HTTP downloads skyrocket to the normal about 280KB/sec. I don't get this, this has only been starting to happen recently.

Im on a Windows XP XPS Dell M140
1.73GHZ Pentium M, 1GB Ram, 100GB HD

My connection is through a BEFSR41 Router with the last firmware which works with Half Life online Play & is 3MBit/384Kbit.

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**CrashPeer44** · February 22nd, 2006, 10:04 AM

any Ideas?!

**lifehacker** · February 22nd, 2006, 10:20 AM

I might be wrong, but this is what I think it it is: any application that communicates with the internet takes up bandwidth. The bandwidth is the capacity of a communications channel. The higher a channel's bandwidth, the more information it can carry. However the more internet applications you have running the more bandwidth they takes up. This is why having 20 simultaneous downloads is not a smart thing.

**Auggie2k** · February 22nd, 2006, 10:21 AM

Yeah, just pause your downloads while browsing. Even if your torrents are downloading at 5Kbps, they can just to 120Kbps in no time.

They use a lot of bandwidth, virtually all of it so it's one or the other I'm afraid.

**brock01** · February 22nd, 2006, 12:14 PM

check your down and upload speeds, and your router might not be able to handle all the speeds, well thats how it is on the wrt54g if you dont get the thrid partie ones, took forever to find good firmware for it but once its found as i know from experience, your good then

**MorphineInduced** · February 22nd, 2006, 12:43 PM

put a cap limit on your torrent loader and that can help a little bit ........ but just take it how it is .... theres no going around it unless u go linux ...... and then it gets a little bit better ...... but why go through all that ..... just pause your shit and then shuffle around ......

**CrashPeer44** · February 22nd, 2006, 02:49 PM

I have a limiter on 15KB upspeed and i have a torrent running right now and it is only going at 27 KB/sec down & my browsing is STILL SLOW

P.S. This never happened in the years I've been using BT
This just started.

**lifehacker** · February 22nd, 2006, 02:59 PM

Just pause your torrent downloads when youre browsing and do one thing at a time. Either torrent dls or browsing.

**CrashPeer44** · February 22nd, 2006, 03:15 PM

But I don't get it, this NEVER happened in the past

**rainbowdemon** · February 22nd, 2006, 03:35 PM

They use a lot of bandwidth, virtually all of it so it's one or the other I'm afraid.

Not for me. I can surf just fine with utorrent running. My connection is also 3 meg. But no router.

**shawners** · February 22nd, 2006, 06:54 PM

Did you unplug your router and reboot?? I have sbc 3 meg download. I download around 306kbs and surf web pretty fast. Its constant speed and I never suffered from using usenet or running Bt at 150-240kbs. I would suggest using the hack that makes windows sp2 open up 50 connections instead of just the 10. More connections your browser can use to obtain the website, the better. Im using FIREFOX .

dOWNload a program that monitors your bandwidth. DU meter i think.

**lifehacker** · February 23rd, 2006, 01:28 PM

In some BT clients (uTorrent, Azureus) you can configure the amount of bandwidth a download is using. This might help you.

**NoneyaD** · February 25th, 2006, 02:13 AM

Something you guys may not have heard about that may indeed help out your dilema...

check out a program called CFOS Speed.

It prioritizes your bandwidth. So your downloads come down, without sacrificing your browsing speed (too much). It works better the longer you've used it, and it can also find just the right settings to squeeze every last bps out of your connection.

It is memory resident, and you set up which proggies have priority.

Can't remember the price-tag. Hmmm... wonder why that is. ;)

Hope that helps.

Also, if it is something that has changed recently, it could be your ISP phucking with you. They can tell what kind of traffic you're generating. But thats just a thought.

Good luck

Noneya D. Business.

**Krell** · February 25th, 2006, 04:07 AM

Youre still not sking this guy the pertinent questions, although the upload reasoning is right on. Saturated upload is the usual bottleneck.

Where is he, whos his ISP, and does he get 4226 errors?

What ONE and TWO things can he use at any time that work by themselves?

Did he reboot? Is he running some shit like Protowall? Antivirus? Internet filter?

WHAT firewalls and router setting does he use?

Find these things out

.

**Dark Messenger** · February 25th, 2006, 04:48 AM

Originally Posted by Krell

Youre still not sking this guy the pertinent questions, although the upload reasoning is right on. Saturated upload is the usual bottleneck.

Where is he, whos his ISP, and does he get 4226 errors?

What ONE and TWO things can he use at any time that work by themselves?

Did he reboot? Is he running some shit like Protowall? Antivirus? Internet filter?

WHAT firewalls and router setting does he use?

Find these things out

.

Thank-you, sir. and there was one more thing I remembered you suggesting which was to try downloading a popular torrent which you know personally to have good seeds and excellent bandwidth to see if it its a problem with lack of sources for the file.