does anyone know why this happens?

[toias123]

whenever i start up my torrent program (and i've tried a few now), my broadband comes to a halt when i open explorer at the same time. All torrents suddenly cease transferring and my internet is dead.

If anyone has had this problem before or can help i would be most grateful.

cheers

joe

 

[mammikoura]

try rebooting the router.
I had quite similar problems,when ever I was downloading torrents they would download slowly and the internet wouldn't work. Then I rebooted the router and everything was fine again.

 

[toias123]

any ideas how i reboot it?

 

[karling07]

Disconnect the power

 

[lhuser]

Could it be that your ping might be too high for your ISP? If the ping is too high (say 400), the ISP server mightdrop you out becxause you take a lot on it. It depends on the ISP.

That is just a thought. I am not sure if this is really the proble...but it might be.

 

[kchi55]

if you just leave only the torrent on. does it still turn off, or only when you add more stress to your bandwidth.

 

[toias123]

i think its when i add more stress and look at the internet at the same time. Any ideas?
Tried rebooting the router but no joy.

 

[kchi55]

well in my experience.. my internet just dies when i use torrents. i'm on a 768k dsl connection and once i have bittorrent on, browsers games everything are unplayable/usable. my advice is just leave torrents on when you're not at the computer.

 

[shawn_selig291]

same here, i use cable high speed internet and when i download alot and surf the web sometimes the internet won't work and i need to reset the router.
Also make sure you have port forwarding setup, as i did this and thing it helped out alot with this issue. and if this helps any, i use Utorrent as my client