utorrent makes AIM crash

[dorkcovenant]

When I run utorrent and AIM (via Trillian) simultaneously, AIM starts disconnecting and reconnecting quickly until it rate limits me out.

It only happens when running AIM (I have a Yahoo and MSN account going that don't get disconnected) and it doesn't matter what client I use (same problem with GAIM as with Trillian.) I saw a thread that suggested turning off DHT, but that had no effect, so any recommendations or help would be fantastic.

[Switeck]

It may be due to the high number of connections you're allowing µTorrent to make...assuming it actually gets anwhere near those numbers. Reduce global connections and connections per torrent to <100 and <60 and see if that helps.

Or more likely it's due to the half-open connection limit in Windows XP SP2 that's being exceeded by µTorrent + AIM. You could try setting µTorrent's half-open connection attempt max down to 4 and see if that helps.

[Ultima]

If none of that helps, check the first link in my signature for other ideas.

[dorkcovenant]

I tried pretty much everything listed by Ultima and I tried the half-open connection bit and none of that worked.

I tried the global/per torrent connection thing and so far the connection seems to be holding steady.

I recently reformatted my computer and switched ISPs. Before reformatting I didn't have this problem. I switched from Earthlink (with a Zyxel prestige 660 ELNK) to Yahoo (with a 2wire 2700HG-.

Does anybody have any ideas as to a) what happened/changed or b)what I can do to return to the previous number of connections while maintaining my AIM connection?

Thanks

[Ultima]

So disabling DHT and UPnP, lowering net.max_halfopen to 4, patching TCPIP.sys to say... 50, and lowering the global connections to 100 didn't help? What modem are you using?

[kcowolf]

I have the same problem. I use Gaim, and uTorrent does the same thing to me.

[Ultima]

... And yet you don't say whether you tried anything suggested in the thread.