The_Adventurer Posted March 9, 2006 Report Share Posted March 9, 2006 Hi all.I have read it in several forums, and I wonder why no-one has ever brought it to your attention:µtorrent works fine for about 10 minutes, then it kills the entire internet connection for all devices for about 1 minute. Within this minute you'll get disconnected from IRC, Messenger etc. and of course, surfing is not possible.Then everything gets back to normal again for about 10 minutes.My settings: Speed Guide -> xx/384, although I do have 512KBit/s upload capacity.I have tried down to xx/128, without any benefit.I'm on a ZyXel ZyAir G-2000 router, 8 static IPs, routed.System: WindowsXP SP2, UNMODIFIED TCPIP.SYS, latest updates.Windows firewall activated and µtorrent is allowed.Actually it does not make a difference whether I deactivate ot.Under Preferences/Torrents/Other Settings I have everything checked except append .!ut to incomplete files.No other settings were altered.I'm using utorrent stable 1.5 build 437Please, take this bugreport serious, as this is really a bug and not some faulty settings.I have made a picture of the utorrent speed barometer as proof:http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=042A5BJL6F29J0MEG5EW9FBT0WBest regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 It was brought to our attention several times, however you seem to lack searching skills, otherwise you'd have found plenty of threads discussing this problem. B.t.w, it's not a bug, your router sucks, because if it didn't suck, you wouldn't be disconnected every time.... :/Turn off DHT, upgrade your modem/router to the latest firmware version, lower your Global maximum number of connections, if you're using UPnP, try port forwarding manually etc. etc. etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Adventurer Posted March 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Then I have good news for you:It's a BRAND NEW router, I'm not on NAT, I'm ***ROUTED*** with STATIC IPS!!!!THERE IS NO PORT-FORWARDING OR UPNP!And the REASON why it's a BRAND NEW router is that I INITIALLY thought it's my router's fault.Which it isn't!We checked even with our ISP!The better thing is:I have also tested this with another Network, with a CISCO Router (Also BRAND-NEW), ROUTED (NO NAT!!!!) and it ALSO kills the connection there.So please tell me that Cisco Routers also suck.So I would really recommend to take this bugreport serious and move it back to bugreports IF you want to help.I have deactivated ALL settings under Preferences/Torrents/Other Settings except pre-allocate all files.I am willing to give you access to my router even to check this incident.Best Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 Then it must be something else, but it's not a bug, or else, everyone would be disconnected, which, AFAIAA, is far from the truth. B.t.w., saying that something is *brand new* doesn't mean squat. D-Links are new too, but they suck harder than Pamela Anderson on a full dose of Intrinsa. :/ What matters is whether they can handle the strain that BitTorrent puts on them.Have you done what I told you in the above post? In addition, patch your TCPIP.sys file. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Adventurer Posted March 10, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 I have done everything that matched my configuration, that is deactivated DHT in all ways, deactivated peer exchange etc etc.I do not change values manually, but rather let the speed guide selection do it's magic.And as I've told, lowering it to xx/128 even didn't do the trick.And it can't be Torrent alone, why does Azureus then work?It's just that it sucks too much performance that I simply can't use it.And on the last topic, no I will not patch my TCPIP.SYS.If that is all I have to do for getting µtorrent to work, I'd rather forget about Torrents then.But as I said, other Torrent programs work flawlessly, except, they are not as slim as µtorrent.Also, I can't believe that oh-so-many routers seem to suck, really.Thanks for your effort Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 FWIW, since µTorrent changed to a new method of connecting to peers (round-robin) instead of the 50-50 method used previously, people have reported similar connectivity issues. It appears many modems/routers can't handle the new method and time out, drop connections etc. At least, that's what I see that could be a possible cause. Since there's no way to return to the old method, if µTorrent doesn't work out for you...then I'm afraid there's not much we can do. I presume you have all the latest motherboard/ethernet drivers installed? Other than that, I'm out of suggestions, unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 10, 2006 Report Share Posted March 10, 2006 you'd be surprised how many crappy modems, routers, and NICs there are out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sach2 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 I've got the exact same problem the last two days after going from v.1.4 to 1.5. All my settings are the same: port-forwarded, no DHT, no PnP. My internet connection keeps shutting down XP says network cable unplugged then a couple of minutes later reconnects. I use a Westell Versalink 327W. Never had a problem with previous versions of µtorrent or my IP. I've looked at general, network and torrent settings and they seem correct. I think this might be a genuine bug.I've deleted my original v.1.4; does the available for download v.1.4.2 use this round robin connection system? It seems to have an updated interface compared to the v.1.4 that I was using. I'm going to give it a try for a few days and see what happens.Thanks for keeping an open mind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 It's not a bug, just crappy hardware. Westells are trash. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sach2 Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Gee, So much for keeping an open mind. It's amazing how many trashy routers work fine until you start running µtorrent build 1.5. Thanks for your prompt assistance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Lower your net.max_halfopen and bt.connect_speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splintax Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 It's difficult to keep an open mind when SO MANY ROUTERS SUCK. Seriously, I've not seen a single consumer-grade router that doesn't crash with heaps of connections. Routers just can't handle BT very well, so if you have dropouts, I'd advise you to limit the number of connections in µT.Limit it really low, like 20 or something - this will give you crap download speed, but if the problem stops occurring, you know it's because of the router, and you can increase the max number of connections until you don't have any more problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 Most consumer routers aren't very good, basically all of 'em have some kind of issue.Surprisingly, a lot of network adapters have issues too. Especially USB wifi junk, and USB modems. Those are the absolute worst things ever.oh and The_Adventurer, there's a lot of bad zyxels out there :> new means nothing. anyway, could be yer modem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chaosblade Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 My ECI USB adsl modem seems to hang on pretty well, even with DHT. Maybe some people are using too many connections in their settings, im not sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 11, 2006 Report Share Posted March 11, 2006 You're one of th e lucky few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
feckle03 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Most consumer routers aren't very good, basically all of 'em have some kind of issue.Well is there some router/modems you can recommend?I have a D-Link 504T, yes I know it is not the best and I was thinking about upgrading modem but to what? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Router? WRT54GL is still my top choice. WRT54G/GS are alright, but you won't be able to use custom firmwares on the v5 revisions. Don't know what other brands are good, perhaps others have ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scott31337 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 I'm glad i'm not the only one trying v1.5 the pretty graffix aren't worth upgrading - my download speeds seemed to get worse- but now I understand.. *read the rules*Good proggy though, thanks L* i love the queue seed/torrent feature.. dumped bittornado for it and memory usage..-Edit- Back to v1.4 - So much better Blame my router, ethernet, or wtfever.. x64 did the same thing.. I really like the software L* the admins in the forum seem to be..good aol tech support..i'll shut up now.. a Linux version would be nice... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sach2 Posted March 12, 2006 Report Share Posted March 12, 2006 Two days using v.1.4.2 and no internet drop outs. Maybe the defaults are set higher in version 1.5? Anyway this is working fine. Thanks for all suggestions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikey83 Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 And if i got the same problem as you are talking about,BUT i dont have a Router?Then what is causing the EATING on the internet-connection?I got 8mb/s broadband,as they call it in sweden.I got the exactly same problems as the poster on the very top of this forum "connection down for about 10min etc" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 crappy modem, they exist too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ser2k2 Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 I got the same problem with utorrent 1.5 so i decided to go back with utorrent 1.4. But i will test the next stable release to see if it doenst kill my connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Damolee Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 How can you pin blame solely on people's hardware every step of the way when they are telling youtheir system works fine with other clients... LOLIt must be this new Encryption thing that Routers and Modems can't handle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firon Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 because not every client works the same. µTorrent is a bit more stressing on crummy hardware than other clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1c3d0g Posted March 14, 2006 Report Share Posted March 14, 2006 And that's why there are several BitTorrent clients to choose from. If µTorrent ain't working for you, try Azureus, it also has the same Encryption scheme. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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