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Anonymous
not sharing a torrent sorry, but i have a question about torrents.
we have 4 computers on our network, sharing a 1.5 meg connection, if one of us is using a torrent downloading at 2 kb/s the internet slows to a crawl, making it practically unusable. we have ports forwarded and ahve tried more than one program, adjusted the upload and download speed limits in torrent programs (currently using bitlord but have tried azerus and some other ones). is this normal for torrents, is their a way to stop the program from killin the internets entirely? their is no way the download/upload of the torrent is maxing out our connection as far as i know
>> Anonymous
either your isp is raping you in the ass or the number of concurrent connections is killing your connection. other than that, bt shouldn't kill your entire connection
>> Anonymous
Have you tried to limit the number of connections? It's an option in the pref of most clients.
>> Anonymous
Set it so that all your computers combined do not try to upload faster than a few KB below your internet connection.

Downloads need upload too, to reply if they got a packet or not. If they're unable to reply, they will start to crawl.
>> Anonymous
>>134294
what he said.

my router f.ex. cant handle more than 100 conns.
standard is 40 so if all of you have 40 your router ends up handling 120 connections.
>> Anonymous
What kind of router do you have? (exact make, model, and version)
>> Anonymous
You're probably maxing out your upload, you usually max out that before download. Set your upload limit to something below your ISP's cap. For example, my ISP gives me 768kbit (= 96kByte) upload, so I have my upload in utorrent capped at 80kB, leaving me plenty to surf. When gaming on the internet I lower it further to 64kB and shorten the queue to reduce the number of connections, this ensures I get no lag. Make sure that all of you together aren't maxing out your upload.

Another suggestion if you have lotsa ppl in the same house torrenting; back when I was living with a couple other torrenters, we set up a server as a designated torrent box. Just shoved it in a corner with no keyboard or monitor and we all VNC'ed into the box to add torrents to the queue. That way there was only one box to regulate upload and we didn't have to all coordinate our upload caps.

Oh, and also helps if you've got a decent router. I recommend Dlink or older Linksys with Hyperwrt firmware. Linksys WRT54G version 5 = crashy time. RMA'd 3 of them before I finally demanded a version 4. Avoid Netgear.
>> Anonymous
>>134292
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>> Anonymous
Setting up a download/p2p server like what>>134312is the best solution.

Take a look at linux + mldonkey. Linux provide underlying services and remote managability, while mldonkey supports BT/ED2k/HTTP downloads managed with web browswer. An old Pentium 100 is adequent for running all aforesaid.