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Netopia 3347nwg wireless router and utorrent

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  • 08-09-2007 2:32pm
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    hamster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭


    Hi Guys,

    In many cases for legit use of utorrents - it's nice to share back to the community by leaving a completed download seeding for a few days rather than just being a leech. However I rarely do this because in my case when utorrent is running - general net use is very slow even when uploads/downloads are not taxing at all.
    I read somewhere that the issue is to do with the max of connections or someother. But is this true - ie the Netopia 3347nwg may be just not capable of handling that or should I be reconfiguring the setting of the router or the software?

    Thanks.


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    dub45
    Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 12,448 Mod ✭✭✭✭dub45


    hamster wrote:
    Hi Guys,

    In many cases for legit use of utorrents - it's nice to share back to the community by leaving a completed download seeding for a few days rather than just being a leech. However I rarely do this because in my case when utorrent is running - general net use is very slow even when uploads/downloads are not taxing at all.
    I read somewhere that the issue is to do with the max of connections or someother. But is this true - ie the Netopia 3347nwg may be just not capable of handling that or should I be reconfiguring the setting of the router or the software?

    Thanks.

    Just on the off chance - have you read this - http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netopia/3347NWG/Utorrent.htm


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    hamster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭hamster


    dub45 wrote:
    Just on the off chance - have you read this - http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/Netopia/3347NWG/Utorrent.htm

    Yes I have thanks. Port forwarding is set up correctly and download/upload speeds are fine. What I'm talking about how it slows general net usage when utorrent is active even when/if downloads are very low - eg 5-10k/s.

    Since the Netopia router is common - I thought others may have noticed this problem. I believe the solution may be to reduce the no. of connections (default is 200) - but I'm not sure if is the right approach. Maybe a better router might be the route (pardon the pun) to go...


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    darkmaster2
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    Try a different bitorrent client, I had the same issues with uTorrent so I changed to Azureus and its been great ever since.


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    hamster
    Registered Users Posts: 1,766 ✭✭✭hamster


    darkmaster2 wrote:
    Try a different bitorrent client, I had the same issues with uTorrent so I changed to Azureus and its been great ever since.

    might do... though utorrent has such a sweet'n'low memory/cpu load - you'd never know it was there. :)


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