Hello! I've looked around various sites and forums and not found any solutions to my particular problem. Heres hoping that someone here may be able to help!
I can't remember when this first started, but it has probably been a year or more. Whenever I use any bittorrent client between 5 minutes and an hour after it starts up, my router 'dies' and needs to be reset. No internet, no torrents downloading - nothing till the client is turned off and the router reset.
At first I assumed it was a simple port issue so I set up port forwarding. Didn't work. Then I figured the router might be bad (I had an older Linksys) so I replaced it with a US Robotics. Problem persists. I thought it was my client so I switched several times (Bittorrent, utorrent, azureus etc.). Problem still persists.
Even other P2P clients like eMule sometimes kill my poor router which makes downloading overnight impossible and web browsing while downloading frustrating.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd like to give them a try.
That could be due to too many open connections from your P2P program.
Whatever bittorrent client you are using, try limiting the max global connections to 200 or less.
You could try setting your upload lower if it's already set at 80%. You could also try setting your download rate lower to see if it helps, say 10% at a time and if the upload isn't an issue. Just a guess too, have you disabled UPnP in Utorrent: options>preferences>connection?
I got it!
After I disabled UPnP and rechecked my routers port-forwarding, I also turned off my router's firewall, which for some reason it wouldn't let me do using firefox (I just started using Safari).
That's great but you shouldn't have to disable your router's firewall, port forwarding bypasses it on the port you select. Do you have randomize port disabled at options>preferences>connection and enter the port you forwarded. You should be getting a green port open at options>speed guides port check after enabling the router firewall. Maybe, I should leave well enough alone, if you do change anything, make a note of it so you can change things back.
