bbbbbb Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 ...on my XP2 machine so I don't overload my router?I'd rather have the torrents slow and working, than everything just hanging every 30 seconds.Any help would be greatly appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 10, 2006 Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 Yes, you also need to reduce half-open connection max in µTorrent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbbb Posted October 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2006 Can you explain a little further? Apparently my router starts to hang at around 60 open connections... How do I set windows to say, 30 or 40?Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 11, 2006 Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Half-open connections max is an advanced setting in µTorrent. It defaults to 8, but I set mine to 4 without problems.Run µTorrent's Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and set it UNDER your max UPLOAD speed.Then go into µTorrent's settings, disable DHT and lower global connections to 60 or less and connections per torrent to 40 or less (unless you run only 1 torrent at a time). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbbb Posted October 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Cheers pal...I've done as you said, and can get downloads going at a great speed (the ports are open), but after a very short period of time the speed just drops to zero and (sometimes) the program freezes. I can unfreeze everything by unplugging my network and plugging it back in, or by closing all the TCP connections utorrent has open forcibly with sysinternals TCPview. Eitherway, when everything freezes I lose my web connection etc.Any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbbb Posted October 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Just to clarify that - everything stops - then if I close down all the TCP/UDP connections with the Utorrent logo next to them in TCPview, everything comes back to life. In doing so, the availability goes back to zero, then the goes back up again, the speed goes up, then goes back to zero, then I have to clear and start again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 11, 2006 Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Try disabling DHT and UPnP and resolve ips/resolve country flags in µTorrent.You'll definitely want Peer Exchange enabled ...and possibly Protocol Encryption enabled as well.You'll also have to do manual port forwarding if you have a router, but it's best that way anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbbb Posted October 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Switeck, thanks for all your help.Still having the same problem. I've turned off/on everything you said, and my ports were already manually forwarded through the router. I have a green tick and good speeds, just not for long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 11, 2006 Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 It almost sounds like bad networking hardware or software somewhere in the loop...Someone else will have to troubleshoot that further, I don't know what else to ask. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbbb Posted October 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 99% sure it's not software. I can run utorrent with nothing else and still get it. I'm guessing it's gotta be my Belkin Router - hence my intial can I restrict TCP through the router question...Thanks everso for all your help.. : )Anyone else have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreadWingKnight Posted October 11, 2006 Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 Belkin routers have a TCP connection limit of around 60.Setting the global connections in uTorrent's preferences to 50 or less should get you going.WRT54GL for the win thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bbbbbb Posted October 11, 2006 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2006 It's currently set to 15 EDIT by silverfire: Bump deleted. Bumping is not allowed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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