Whats Wrong With My Connection?

[Wolfie]

I've recently installed a Torrent client (Azureus)

My connection seems fine until i load the client interface, then all of a sudden i start to dramatically loose internet connectivity. I havea 'ping' running in the background and i start getting lots of 'timeouts' - as soon as i unload the client my connection becomes stable again (after a minute or so)

So whats going on here? is it my ISP blocking my connection or is it a misconfigured or bad torrent client?

Can anyone advise me?

[Guest Reimar]

I've recently installed a Torrent client (Azureus)

My connection seems fine until i load the client interface, then all of a sudden i start to dramatically loose internet connectivity. I havea 'ping' running in the background and i start getting lots of 'timeouts' - as soon as i unload the client my connection becomes stable again (after a minute or so)

So whats going on here? is it my ISP blocking my connection or is it a misconfigured or bad torrent client?

Can anyone advise me?

Wolfie,

I think is the ISP! I've the same problem with uTorrent, mostly time the connection is "lost"! sometimes it starts downloading but about 0.2-0.3 kBps!!

Anyway I've a meeting tomorrow at TRUE and I'll ask them and keep informing later.

[lomatopo]

I've recently installed a Torrent client (Azureus)

My connection seems fine until i load the client interface, then all of a sudden i start to dramatically loose internet connectivity. I havea 'ping' running in the background and i start getting lots of 'timeouts' - as soon as i unload the client my connection becomes stable again (after a minute or so)

So whats going on here? is it my ISP blocking my connection or is it a misconfigured or bad torrent client?

Can anyone advise me?

It's almost impossible to say without a lot more detail. It could be anything from a crappy client that is mis-configured, to not enough seeders, to a poor router set-up to a problem with the DSL line to a problem with your ISP, and they could be throttling torrents. I'd suggest swtiching to uTorrent as it has some decent diagnostic tools that allow you to accurately gauge the quality of the overall 'sysyem'. Even better, it supports encryption. I was experiencing slow speeds recently but I turned on encryption and am now back up to wire speed (at or above the limits of my DSL line). Of course that makes browsing quite slow.

[Wolfie]

It's almost impossible to say without a lot more detail. It could be anything from a crappy client that is mis-configured, to not enough seeders, to a poor router set-up to a problem with the DSL line to a problem with your ISP, and they could be throttling torrents. I'd suggest swtiching to uTorrent as it has some decent diagnostic tools that allow you to accurately gauge the quality of the overall 'sysyem'. Even better, it supports encryption. I was experiencing slow speeds recently but I turned on encryption and am now back up to wire speed (at or above the limits of my DSL line). Of course that makes browsing quite slow.

Thanks for the replies. I installed a different torrent client (bittornado) and the problems seems to have gone away, i can now download my torrent (albeit slowly) without getting the loss of connectivity. On further investigation its a problem with the Java install.

I will try uTorrent tonight and see if i can get my speeds up (painfully slow downloads at the minute)

[lomatopo]

I am still running at nearly full wire speeds. I've tried a lot of clients and uTorrent has proven best for me. I only run 3 in-bound torrents at a time. Are you running anything else, say a P2P app., at the same time? I cannot do that as both wither and die.

[nikster]

I've recently installed a Torrent client (Azureus)

My connection seems fine until i load the client interface, then all of a sudden i start to dramatically loose internet connectivity. I havea 'ping' running in the background and i start getting lots of 'timeouts' - as soon as i unload the client my connection becomes stable again (after a minute or so)

So whats going on here? is it my ISP blocking my connection or is it a misconfigured or bad torrent client?

Can anyone advise me?

Weird. I would check what you are uploading at any given time. I always use the Windows Task Manager for that - Go to Task Manager (Ctrl-Alt-Del) -> Networking -> View menu -> Select columns... and select "Bytes received per interval" and "Bytes sent per interval" and make it so you can see those without scrolling in the pane below the (largely useless) graphs. Ignore the network utilization % or turn it off, it's completely useless as it measures % of the theoretical maximum of your local connections which is always way more than the DSL has.

Now if your bytes sent per interval are close to the max. the line can offer or over you are starving incoming connections. Everything breaks down at that point. Limit outgoing bytes in Azureus to under the max. line speed, so if your upload speed is 256Kbit, set it to 20KB.

Task manager is system wide so you will see if you maybe have other programs that use your uplink. For example, Skype or TVUPlayer or Joost and such.

[lomatopo]

I used "Bandwidth Monitor Pro" to monitor network activity. This runs in the taskbar.

Note that in a typical ADSL/LAN configuration any measurement tool is probably measuring the network activity on your Ethernet adapter. This adapter can probably run to 100 Mbps. If you're doing a file transfer say to another PC on your LAN then you'll see a dramatic increase in network throughput on your link, far greater than the uplink speed of your ADSL line.

uTorrent automatically adjusts upload speed, to a figure below the maximum, based on the configuration parameters you supply which describe your ADSL connection.

[MikeWill]

What modem/router would you recommend for TRUE adsl?

Or maybe I'll better open a new topic, so not to divert this thread.

[Firefoxx]

Are you using a router? Many routers have a certain limit on the amount of simultaneous connections it can maintain. In the old days, this was no big deal, but with Bittorrent capable of eating up hundreds of connections by its lonesome... then you have problems. Certain Linksys routers have a VERY low connection count. You might try to limit the number of connections your BT client uses.

Another problem may be the MTU/MRU settings. Try lowering them.

[aznyron]

Are you using a router? Many routers have a certain limit on the amount of simultaneous connections it can maintain. In the old days, this was no big deal, but with Bittorrent capable of eating up hundreds of connections by its lonesome... then you have problems. Certain Linksys routers have a VERY low connection count. You might try to limit the number of connections your BT client uses.

Another problem may be the MTU/MRU settings. Try lowering them.

What cause your computer to come up with time out page it seem to happen to me quite often thank you Ronnie