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Originally posted by John
XP sp2 only limits half open connections a second.
It shouldn't in theory be a problem

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you should notice in the event log under System a good few tcp/ip logs when running p2p programs!

Cheers Paul, my PC runs Windows 2000 Professional and the other PC runs Windows XP SP2, so when the other PC is used for downloading I will see if there are any further problems with it, but I tested it earlier and it seemed to be so far so good.

XP sp2 only limits half open connections a second.
It shouldn't in theory be a problem

Another thing to check Sam is the tcp/ip stack, as XP SP2 limits it to 10 connections at the same time...

http://www.speedguide.net/read_articles.php?id=1497

I've sorted the port mapping out on the router and given static IP addresses to each PC as well, and lowered the upload rate on the BT clients on each PC, now it all works fine and both PCs can simultaneously download/upload torrents. :D

Thanks for everyone's help! :wave:

Sam, have you got the latest firmware for the router? I had a similar problem with mine even though port forwarding was set up, upload capped, max connections wasnt ridiculous etc. Upgraded the firmware which still didnt help till i did a factory reset after too, and now im getting 300kB/s+ on torrents and browsing fine at the same time. :thumbs:

Sam - ideally to use torrents, you need to set up port forwarding on the router, otherwise you will be snagged by connection issues which will cause the slow download speeds.

http://userpages.umbc.edu/~hamilton/btclientconfig.html

wooo. i can actually download stuff and use my laptop at the same time :D

cheers Dom ;)

Rob:

under options > preferences > connection > Global upload etc - wack anything in there :thumbs:

[Edited on 05-08-2006 by Dom]

Use bitlord to download torrents and then you can easily lower your upload speed to 2kbs like a cunt :)

on this note, i'm having similar problems, but cant work out how to lower my upload speed with utorrent. any idea?

Id say your maxing out the upload b/w.

Whats your upload set to for your torrents? If you stop the torrents, does browsing pick up again?

I would set it as low as possible and see what browsing is like then and as it's possible that the upload is getting thrashed (i know ADSL isnt like Cable interms of flooding the upstream and it causes a bottleneck on the downstream, just before anyone says) but its worth a shot. Ideally i would limit your upload on the torrent system to just under a half of what your upload bandwidth is - ie: 256K upload, set upload to 11k/s or so.

Could be a DNS problem if browsing is still shot when not downloading - do a search for pipex dns numbers i posted and pop those into your router DNS settings (reboot) and see if that makes any difference

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Originally posted by abdus
stop using torrents :boggle:

[Edited on 05-08-2006 by abdus]

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stop using torrents :boggle:

[Edited on 05-08-2006 by abdus]

Basically here we have a Netgear wireless ADSL modem/router with two PCs connected to it - one by ethernet cable, the other wirelessly.

Now say for example one of the PCs is downloading a torrent file and the speed is something gay like 10k/sec (not many seeders), surely the other PC would have a fast connection for web browsing? It seems about as fast as a 14.4k modem. :(

Connection is 2Mb BT Broadband, aside from downloading torrents with few seeders, every other site/P2P downloading etc. is fine (fast).

Is there not some way that the connection can be split in two somehow, so that each connection has say 1Mb for example?