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uTorrent's caused my net to drop 0-20 times a day for the past year.


andrewset

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Hello,

Downloading files by uTorrent causes my internet to fail 0-20 times per day. That's been happening for the past year or so. The fix is quick and easy, I just get up, pull out the power plug behind my cable modem surfboard thing, wait 7 seconds or so, push it back in, and I'm on the net again for the next 5 minutes or up to a day.

Is there some known thing I should do to keep the connection?

Thanks,

Andrew

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µTorrent very rarely will max out the various settings you told it to use. I don't mean download+upload speeds, I mean stuff like max number of connections + half open connection rate + DHT (if enabled) + resolve ips...and various other things that do activities that individually are no problem but in combo can add up to quite a lot of overhead.

So, what settings are you using as shown by Speed Guide (CTRL+G)?

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I think I never touched these settings, but it says:

Upload Limit: 0 kB/s

Connections (per-torrent): 50

Max active torrents: 8

Upload Slots: 4

Connections (global): 200

Max active downloads: 5

Current Port: 80

Enable Encryption: Unchecked

Let me know if there's anything else you need to know.

Thanks a lot

Andrew

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Currently, it's set to infinite upload speed.

It probably finds a bottleneck somewhere and bombs.

You need to run Speed Guide (CTRL+G) and set it to match your UPLOAD bandwidth in kilobits/sec. Chances are, you won't be using a setting faster than xx/512k. I've got to use the xx/384k setting or slower for me.

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Hello,

I'm using the lowest setting now, 'dial-up,' because I only care to have 1 download going on at a time anyway. Is that a good idea for making sure my net doesn't fail, or does limiting the upload speed limit the download speed at all? (I know BitComet had some setup like that)

Thanks

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