Torrent/Internet problems.

[Ilpav]

I need some help. Whenever I am downloading a torrent, my Internet is so slow no pages will load. I haven't had this problem before.

BTW I have a high-speed cable connection with a Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router with SpeedBooster. I also use BitComet (for torrents) and Mozilla Firefox (for browsing.)

Thanks for any help.

[Buba]

High speed cable doesn't help that much. Whats your bandwidth? Limit in and outbound speeds to something lower than those.
Best thing however would be a traffic shaping program like cfosspeed (google it, costs money, but can be had for "free") or a router that has that built in, but not hat many have that...

[ViperGTS-R]

I think your router supports QoS queries, so all you have to do is add a QoS query from your routers web interface that forwards the HTTP packets...It's gonna work fine no matter what kind of internet connection you got....Plus you don't need any programs for traffic shaping because the router does it for you

Hope i helped

[epp_b]

As you're downloading, you're also seeding (uploading). If you're seeding at your maximum outbound throughput, it's normal that everything else will be slow because anything that accesses a resource via the Internet needs to upload small pieces of data to that resource to tell it what you want to download. If your torrent uploading is hogging your outbound throughput, any other program will become second class to it.

So, limit the upload speed to something like half of your connection's maximum.

[Ilpav]

Originally Posted by ViperGTS-R

I think your router supports QoS queries, so all you have to do is add a QoS query from your routers web interface that forwards the HTTP packets...It's gonna work fine no matter what kind of internet connection you got....Plus you don't need any programs for traffic shaping because the router does it for you

Hope i helped

Uhh.. ok. How do I do that?

[ViperGTS-R]

You should log in to your routers web interface, just type 192.168.1.1 in you browser then go to 'applications & gaming' and there should be an option that says QoS...Click on it and add an entry that sets the WWW application (or HTTP or WEB or however you router describes it) to high priority...Save the setting...and your done....

If you don't see the QoS option, then you have to upgrade your router to the latest firmware version

[Quiky]

Uh, this isn't automotive. Moved.

[phuckingduck]

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Don't pay attention to most of the crap on there BitTorrents Low, HTTP High, and that's about the gist of it. If you're still having problems, use a speed test to determine your max upload and throttle your uploads in your individual torrent client so as to leave a 10kB/s buffer for other internet needs.

[Viper007Bond]

Limit the number of global connections (this is a biggy) to like 100-200 (experiment with it) and also cap your upload and download speeds to about 80% of your actual ability.