thelegendaryfsa Posted May 30, 2006 Report Posted May 30, 2006 I recently decided to use a Belkin F5D7630-4A (ADSL Modem with built in Wireless Router) to connect my laptop and standalone machines together to my AOL 1meg broadband connection.I followed the port forwarding guide on portforwarding.com. Set up static IP addresses. Added a virtual server under my modems firewall settings. I disabled uPnP and DHT on utorrent.However, whenever I run utorrent, the status remains orange and strangely, pages stop loading on firefox...i get server time out errors. When i close utorrent and restart firefox, pages start loading again.This problem happens randomly.......ie, sometimes the utorrent status turns green and firefox pages load. Why is this happening?I am using mcAfee personal firewall, in which i have granted utorrent full access to the internet. Ive done the same to the windows firewall.Am i missing something?ps-ive capped my max download speed to 80% of my connection speed and set global max connections to 200
Firon Posted May 30, 2006 Report Posted May 30, 2006 You probably need to use less than 100 on Belkin routers. And turn off DHT.Or get a better modem and router.
thelegendaryfsa Posted May 30, 2006 Author Report Posted May 30, 2006 lol...wouldnt that make me a bad workman blaming his tools? okidoki, will try that. should i expect it to reduce download speeds?
Switeck Posted May 30, 2006 Report Posted May 30, 2006 You need to cap upload speed as well to 80% or less of max.
thelegendaryfsa Posted May 30, 2006 Author Report Posted May 30, 2006 ps-ive capped my max download speed to 80% of my connection speedyup, ive done that switeck....tnx
Switeck Posted May 30, 2006 Report Posted May 30, 2006 I was talking about UPLOAD speeds being capped too, you only mentioned capping download speeds.Capping max download speeds is unneccessary most of the time (if you have >1 mbps download speeds).It can actually even cause problems if you cap download speeds in µTorrent too low.
thelegendaryfsa Posted May 31, 2006 Author Report Posted May 31, 2006 I was talking about UPLOAD speeds being capped too, you only mentioned capping download speeds.Capping max download speeds is unneccessary most of the time (if you have >1 mbps download speeds).It can actually even cause problems if you cap download speeds in µTorrent too low.oh, pardon me. several broadband speed tests indicated my upload speed is 35kbps...so ill cap it at 29kbps. cheers.
Ultima Posted May 31, 2006 Report Posted May 31, 2006 Wait, kbps or KiB/s?Take the tests on dslreports.com and from the exact upload speeds they give (it's in kbits/s, not kbytes/s), select the closest option in µTorrent.
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