Prankmaster Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 So after buying a Belkin WiFi router (model F5D7230-4, the one thats small with a single antenna) and doing everything in my power to make uTorrent work (I kept getting the yellow "!" triangle error, and had to deactivate my router firewall) now uTorrent is working and downloading...........at 5kbps....All my torrents have lots of seeds, my speed test reveals a real download capacity of 780kbps, I uninstalled the nVidia firewall (mostly becos it was giving me problems with the actual port connection) so I dont know what the hell is happening.EDIT: firefox is working as normal now, and even dowloads stuff at 150kbps and beyond, so the entire problem is with uTorrent only.So, any ideas? I've to travel next thursday and I'll be off for a week, so I would be more than happy to leave my PC downloading stuff, but if I cant fix this I may have to turn the system off until I'm back.Any advise would be welcome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 10, 2007 Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 I've heard that Belkin routers are notoriously bad for file-sharing, often crashing even before they reach 60 connections max.Wireless connections make it even worse, with their unreliable nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prankmaster Posted October 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 10, 2007 God dammit I was afraid this way going to happen the very moment I bought the damn thing....The desktop is using a wired connection to the router (the laptop is always wireless) so I dont know what else to do.Maybe I could use a cheap standard router (without wireless or firewall) to connect my desktop and the belkin router to my PC, so then my desktop gets the unaltered access directly from the modem.What do you think? would it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 Do searches here for what others recommend.I have an ancient Linksys 4-port wired router that has its own limitations. It's not great either, and DOES crash/reset on overloading...which happens about once every day or 2 straight of being left on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Prankmaster Posted October 11, 2007 Author Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 Crap! now I REALLY dont know what to do...Anyway, I went trought some of the older posts yesterday and didnt find anything related to DL speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Switeck Posted October 11, 2007 Report Share Posted October 11, 2007 Your ISP may be throttling BitTorrent traffic? (I'm asking, not sure.)What settings are you currently using as shown by Speed Guide (CTRL+G)?Are you getting the easy-to-resolve "Download Limited" message at the bottom left? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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