Utorrent causing loads of problems:

[Sonastylol]

Hey all, I'll keep this short so you are willing to help me.

We just recently upgraded to Verizon FIOS in my house, and on dslreports.com/speedtest, I am getting a reading of 15.1mb/s ~ 18mb/s download and an upload of 3000~4000 kb/s. This may or not be important.

I am hardwired from the wall to my desktop. When I run utorrent, the internet in my whole house drops. I deleted utorrent and ran ccleaner, and I am about to open it again for the first time.

!*!*! This is where you come in!*!*!*

How do I set utorrent on its initial startup to limit my downloading and uploading (using my speed numbers I gave you above) to let me download torrents ( even one at a time) without sapping/draining/dropping the internet throughout the house ( maxing out my own internet is fine, but I only want to use a chunk of it, so everyone can still webbrowse fast).

Before I used FIOS, I could torrent w/ bitlord @ around 100kb/s without ever worrying about anyone elses connection.

Thank you!

[jewelisheaven]

The Guides page (linked below) and more specifically "Setting up your connection" should answer all of your questions. You might want to start out with xx/2Mbit under Ctrl-G and increase by about 10% at a time until you stop uploading consistently (flat line under "Speed" tab) from there or go to Ctrl-P -> Connection and set your hard upload limit to 375 and work down if you experience lag on your LAN while upload at that speed.

If you previously had 1 Mbit upload, 100 is a good average throughput especially on ISPs which shape traffic.

[Sonastylol]

ok well I checked out the guides and did everything it said.

I downloaded the slackware to try it out, I was getting no reading for upload and and 2(15) for download and a speed of 3.8 kb/s.

This is really slow and even STILL, my internet on my computer was down, and im assuming i took it down in the whole house again.

I honestly dont know what to do anymore. Before we had FIOS, I could torrent, albeit at 100 or so kb/s but that was fine for me, and no trouble with the house. Now I cant torrent at all and if I try, the whole house's internet drops. x_x

[jewelisheaven]

OK. so what drops is the modem or your router?? You can tell this from whether you have to hard-reset the hardware or if it comes back up after ~ 30 seconds. If it's the modem then definitely it sounds like it is being overloaded.

Have you tried cutting the upload limit drastically... you may not be able to handle the large amount of concurrent connections under Ctrl-P -> BitTorrent, so try limiting that next.. 200 total should suffice. Also, when you were running the slackware torrent did you notice which network status icon you had?

Don't be frazzled, going through step by step is the only sure way to figure out / fix the problem. And hey, you're learning about your ISP and your internet connection while you're at it

[andythephilo]

how do i remove a peer who just keeps uploadin n gives no download?pls help...thanx in advance

[ajones81]

@andythephilo: How is this related to the current topic? Stop thread-hijacking!

BTW, don't you mean a peer who keep downloading (leeching) from you and not the other way about? Stop trying to micromanage peers... Bittorrent thrives upon sharing, so don't be a leech or a hit-and-runner and share a bit. Leeching is not appreciated, no help will be provided for it and leechers are not welcome here, period.