utorrent 1.7.6 stops firefox and other browsers...

[b33fchief]

recently updated utorrent and started downloading something. checked to see if it was downloading, and it was downloading fine (all my ports are forwarded ect) getting the green tick like i usually do.

everythings running well so i decided ill hit up youtube to see whats new to the scene, next minute i realise firefox and IE arent connecting :S so i check to see if my internet was still connected... and it was, i also checked utorrent, and that was still downloading. i couldnt think what the problem was. so i restarted my computer, like most of the times the trusty restart did the trick. firefox and IE were fine. msn was working also. then i opened utorrent again to start up my download. then back to firefox... and wtf? not working. so i close utorrent. instant presto its working?

anyone else experiencing this?

[jewelisheaven]

You're setting your upload to high. Lower it and make sure you're not overloading your connection. Use your speed test results to ensure you're using the right upload limit (use the drop-down in Speed Guide xx/UPLOAD)

[b33fchief]

nah, its not that becuase its only just started happening since i updated...

my max upload speed = 40kb/s

upload speed in utorrent is set to is 15kb/s

plus when this problem occurred i wasn't even uploading, and my connection definetly wasn't overloaded because i was only downloading at 30kb/s on a 8mbit connection.

[cosmocain]

i got the same problem - and that on a SDSL-line. it happens even with 4-5 kb/s upstream (and the line is capable of about 500kb/s). it might be somehow connected with vista SP1, which i installed and got the problems afterwards.

tried another torrent-client and it woks like a charm with >300kb/s upstream. so it's definitely utorrent-connected.

[jewelisheaven]

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?pid=300000#p300000

[cosmocain]

- my line is fine (that's why i stated that it works with another client).

- port forwarding works (green icon, etc... and: the second client now uses the same port, works).

- none of the incompatible apps installed.

there are only two changes in the setup:

- utorrent 1.7.6

- vista SP1 RC1

to both i updated on the same day. i uninstalled utorrent first, then installed the new version.

procexp-file:

Process PID CPU Description Company Name

WmiPrvSE.exe 4092 WMI Provider Host Microsoft Corporation

wininit.exe 644 Windows-Startanwendung Microsoft Corporation

rundll32.exe 3784 Windows-Hostprozess (Rundll32) Microsoft Corporation

rundll32.exe 3868 Windows-Hostprozess (Rundll32) Microsoft Corporation

explorer.exe 3484 Windows-Explorer Microsoft Corporation

winlogon.exe 1360 Windows-Anmeldeanwendung Microsoft Corporation

smss.exe 508 Windows Session Manager Microsoft Corporation

audiodg.exe 1144 Windows Graphisolierung für Audiogeräte Microsoft Corporation

vmnetdhcp.exe 2392 VMware VMnet DHCP service VMware, Inc.

vmware-tray.exe 3708 VMware Tray Process VMware, Inc.

vmnat.exe 2208 VMware NAT Service VMware, Inc.

hqtray.exe 3716 VMware Host Network Access Status Tray Application VMware, Inc.

vmware-authd.exe 2104 VMware Authorization Service VMware, Inc.

vmount2.exe 2128 virtual disk mount service VMware, Inc.

procexp.exe 1560 3.07 Sysinternals Process Explorer Sysinternals

stacsv.exe 1852 STacSV Module SigmaTel, Inc.

spoolsv.exe 1628 Spoolersubsystem-Anwendung Microsoft Corporation

unsecapp.exe 1336 Sink to receive asynchronous callbacks for WMI client application Microsoft Corporation

sttray.exe 3752 Sigmatel Audio system tray application SigmaTel, Inc.

IAANTmon.exe 564 RAID Monitor Intel Corporation

quickset.exe 4020 QuickSet Dell Inc

nTuneService.exe 864 NVIDIA Access Manager NVIDIA

thunderbird.exe 3900 Mozilla Thunderbird Mozilla Corporation

XAudio.exe 2360 Modem Audio Service Conexant Systems, Inc.

SLsvc.exe 1184 Microsoft-Softwarelizenzierungsdienst Microsoft Corporation

SearchProtocolHost.exe 3036 Microsoft Windows Search Protocol Host Microsoft Corporation

SearchIndexer.exe 2312 Microsoft Windows Search Indexer Microsoft Corporation

SearchFilterHost.exe 520 Microsoft Windows Search Filter Host Microsoft Corporation

mobsync.exe 1832 Microsoft Sync Center Microsoft Corporation

OUTLOOK.EXE 4544 Microsoft Office Outlook Microsoft Corporation

lsm.exe 712 Lokaler Sitzungs-Manager-Dienst Microsoft Corporation

lsass.exe 704 Local Security Authority Process Microsoft Corporation

OEM02Mon.exe 3580 Live! Cam Console Auto Launcher Creative Technology Ltd.

iTunesHelper.exe 3880 iTunesHelper Module Apple Inc.

iPodService.exe 3800 iPodService Module Apple Inc.

ieuser.exe 5948 Internet Explorer Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 880 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 940 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 980 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1032 0.70 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1068 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1084 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1208 0.70 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1424 0.70 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1652 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1972 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 1488 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 2080 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

svchost.exe 2276 Hostprozess für Windows-Dienste Microsoft Corporation

HijackThis.exe 5484 HijackThis Trend Micro Inc.

Interrupts n/a 2.11 Hardware Interrupts

IAAnotif.exe 3700 Event Monitor User Notification Tool Intel Corporation

ekrn.exe 2036 0.70 Eset Service ESET

egui.exe 3676 Eset GUI ESET

dwm.exe 3412 Desktopfenster-Manager Microsoft Corporation

I8kfanGUI.exe 3956 Dell Inspiron/Latitude/Precision fan control Christian Diefer

DPCs n/a 1.41 Deferred Procedure Calls

dllhost.exe 4988 COM Surrogate Microsoft Corporation

csrss.exe 592 Client-Server-Laufzeitprozess Microsoft Corporation

csrss.exe 656 Client-Server-Laufzeitprozess Microsoft Corporation

mDNSResponder.exe 1952 Bonjour Service Apple Inc.

BTTray.exe 3964 Bluetooth Tray Application Broadcom Corporation.

BTStackServer.exe 2124 Bluetooth Stack COM Server Broadcom Corporation.

BitComet.exe 5352 6.92 BitComet - a BitTorrent Client www.BitComet.com

taskeng.exe 2884 Aufgabenplanungsmodul Microsoft Corporation

taskeng.exe 3376 Aufgabenplanungsmodul Microsoft Corporation

AppleMobileDeviceService.exe 1928 Apple Mobile Device Service Apple, Inc.

ApMsgFwd.exe 4048 ApMsgFwd Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

services.exe 688 Anwendung für Dienste und Controller Microsoft Corporation

ApntEx.exe 1172 Alps Pointing-device Driver for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

hidfind.exe 2328 Alps Pointing-device Driver Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

Apoint.exe 3568 Alps Pointing-device Driver Alps Electric Co., Ltd.

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Logfile of Trend Micro HijackThis v2.0.2

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[jewelisheaven]

Then you need to verify that it is indeed the settings you're using which are causing the trouble. There is a ... well I thought it was obvious... post in the How-To (#2) about setting up your uT in limited presence mode, whereby it removes most of the bottlenecks which ISPs usually act upon to enact their countermeasures.

Alternatively, if you're running a consumer router it's likely it can't handle the load you put on it. Would you mind putting up a picture of your Speed Guide settings?

[cosmocain]

it's not the router, cause it isn't a consumer product. it definitely can handle the load, cause it handles it with another bittorrent-client. it handled it with other version of uT...and so on.

there is no ISP-bottleneck, cause it's damn right working with every other torrent-client i tried. the speed settings, the connection settings, etc are all the same in the 3 clients i tried up to now.

and it's not the settings i'm using which are causing trouble because i did not change the settings in any way - as i said: the only two changes concerning the setup are: installation of vista SP1 RC1 and the new version of utorrent.

i tried to change net.max_halfopen to 4, didn't change anything, tried some of the tweaks (net.bind_ip, etc), nothing did the trick.

and i'm not complaining about slow downloads in utorrent - it's actually working quite good, but anything concerning port 80 goes to a halt, even site access in LAN. i cannot access the administration page of the router, nor any of the servers working via http - while ping and everything goes fine, smtp working, exchange working, databases working, etc. i really can't imagine that the traffic uT produces is cutting down network performance only for some services and, above all, not on a switched Gbit network.

edit: here are changes in the tcpip.sys with vista sp1 - so maybe that's the glitch.

[jewelisheaven]

... if all services but port 80 are unaffected it most certainly isn't a problem with uTorrent. My whole process is to REMOVE excess (insert item here). In order for you to verify something is wrong with uT, you must a) demonstrate you have TRIED the steps in the How-To at least and be willing to give information.

Speed Guide settings aren't national secrets and if you won't provide those I really am too tired to try and bother getting you to give me what I need to understand your situation better.

[cosmocain]

okay, step by step:

# Try disabling IP resolving in the Peers tab's context menu

check, didn't change anything.

# Try disabling DHT (Can be found in Preferences > BitTorrent)

check, didn't change anything

# Try disabling UPnP and NAT-PMP (Can be found in Preferences > Connection)

always disabled.

# Try disabling peer.resolve_country if it isn't already set to false (Can be found in Preferences > Advanced)

check, didn't change anything.

# Try lowering maximum global number of connections to 200? 100? 50? (Can be found in Preferences > BitTorrent)

check, didn't change anything.

# Try lowering net.max_halfopen to 4 (Can be found in Preferences > Advanced)

as said, tried...didn't change anything, even lowered it to 2.

i do NOT need to check if it's some ISP bottleneck, cause the downloads on utorrent are doing fine. i do not need to check if the router's able to handle the load, because it's doing right now at the moment with another torrent client.

all web pages are doing exceptionally fine until i fire up uTorrent, so it IS somehow related to uT.

the speed guide settings...yeah... they are no secret at all, but stated in my first post is that even lowering the upload speeds to 4kb/s didn't change anything. even if no torrent at all is added: the browsers stop working. but they don't if uT isn't running or another client is running. it's definitely not the speed settings, it's not half_open, not bind_ip, not (insert name here)... i googled for hours before posting and all the tweaks for uT didn't do the trick. and as stated above: why SHOULD these settings influence anything at all if it was working with these settings BEFORE. if the the engine of my car isn't starting up... i do not need to take a look at the tires.

[jewelisheaven]

All I can say is if those features are disabled you've got gremlins... If uT is making all those connections to lag port 80 (perhaps using process explorer and looking at the utorrent process under the spiffy TCP/IP tab is a place to start)... You're aware ESET is incompatible in default settings right? Otherwise you should check your NAT appliance which is actively blocking or does not like the new exe... you did update any custom rules you had made already for the new exe right? I'm amazed I missed this before, but the process explorer list doesn't include the vitals for uTorrent.exe. As it is right now, its a more uninformative version of HJT, lol. Could you proceed with Ctrl-L, Ctrl-D, click utorrent.exe, Ctrl-A to paste an edited logfile please (above or below is fine)?

[Firon]

Funky. Maybe your router hates the multicast broadcasts from local peer discovery?

[zlio2004]

i have the same problem here since updating to 1.7.6.

my web pages don't open.

my soulseek doesn't start.

and the torrents are stuck on 0 seeds and 0 peers.

HELP!

[Firon]

zli2004, http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992#p258231

[zlio2004]

ok

i've done all the things on the list and something there worked.

torrents are up again. soulseek working. firefox working.

thanks firon!