Torrents and 50mb

[Gypsie]

Hi I discovered something recently that when my laptop on wireless is downloading 1 torrent even at only 100-200kbps and a tiny upload it causes my wired desktops net to run incredibly slow.

I ping google and get well over 1000ms and terrible download speeds, I turn off the torrent and it goes right back down to 30ms, now it clearly isn't the load from the torrent as that is only about a few % of the nets speed but for some reason it has a massive effect!

Anyone know why it would be doing this?

[martyh]

check how many upload slots per torrent and how many connected peers per torrent you have also try not have your download/upload speed on unlimited

[Sephiroth]

Or is it that the router doesn't have enough legs?

[Gypsie]

check how many upload slots per torrent and how many connected peers per torrent you have also try not have your download/upload speed on unlimited

Ah well they are set to unlimited yea but the speeds on upload/download are really low so didn't think it would matter! Will check that now

[martyh]

Ah well they are set to unlimited yea but the speeds on upload/download are really low so didn't think it would matter! Will check that now


the upload/download speed is of any given torrent is relative to the seeder/leecher but the bandwidth allocated if set on unlimited can screw your speeds it doesn't always follow that a download of say 100KB/s will only use 100KB of bandwidth it will still try to allocate all of the bandwidth available

[broadbandking]

I have never had any issues using 50Mb with torrents, try limiting your upload to around 30Kb/s whilst your using the net on another PC.

[JdNthLdn]

If your upload speed is to high then your internet runs slow. I limit to 75