uTorrent killing internet + slow speeds

[jey16]

uTorrent was working fine this morning but in the afternoon, something seems to have gone wrong.....whenever i am running it, the internet will slow to a crawl or die and my torrent speeds have dropped to under 10kbs when i was previously getting 1mbs.....the software also seems to hang or freeze for a bit whenever i apply new settings or exit

as soon as i exit from uTorrent though, my internet returns to normal......i thought it might be my router so i directly connected to the modem but the same thing is happening

i'm running WIndows 7 x64

any ideas?

[GTHK]

http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=15992