Torrent clients kill my internet connection?

gejr · 04-17-2007, 07:20 PM

Hey, I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 with Gnome. I have tried a few torrent clients lately (Deluge, KTorrent) and they seem to stop my internet connection from working. Does anyone have the slightest clue how this can occur? The torrentdownloads run fine, but opening webpages in firefox while the torrent client is running fails. Could it in any way be an DNS-issue? I'm not very experienced so please point out if you know anything I could check.

Thanks!

carl0ski · 04-17-2007, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by gejr

Hey, I'm running Ubuntu 7.04 with Gnome. I have tried a few torrent clients lately (Deluge, KTorrent) and they seem to stop my internet connection from working. Does anyone have the slightest clue how this can occur? The torrentdownloads run fine, but opening webpages in firefox while the torrent client is running fails. Could it in any way be an DNS-issue? I'm not very experienced so please point out if you know anything I could check.

Thanks!

It occurs because Torrent programs suck up every last amount of you bandwidth and websites won't load quick enough.

Just like in Windows you will need to limit the upload and download speed the torrent programs can use.

usually preferences > Connection > Speed Limit

for a 512/128 dsl connection

40K down 8K up
should easy problems browsing the web

gejr · 04-17-2007, 09:18 PM

Thanks for your answer, but no..I don't think this is the problem. The torrent download/upload speeds doesn't need to come close to exceeding my bandwidths limits. When KTorrent is running at like 50kb down / 50 kb up (my connection is 6mbit/3mbit) I can't even ping addresses like www.google.com and www.cnn.com. This must be caused by something else.

Brynn · 04-22-2007, 12:12 PM

i think this is a recent problem because i've been using ktorrent for ages with speed limits but since i upgraded to ubuntu 7.04 it completly kills my internet connection even set at 5k download. It appears thet it kills my router also, none of the other computers in the house can connect if ktorrent is running on my pc...

gejr · 04-23-2007, 05:10 AM

Yea..exactly my problem too. Hope it'll be fixed. I haven't tried any torrents for a while.