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hagwonnewbie
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
Location: Asia
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 Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:17 pm Post subject: trouble surfing while I download torrents |
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I can't surf the internet while I'm downloading bit torrents.
Any suggestions?
I have the most basic internet service. I think my provider is t-broadband. |
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Destroyer
Joined: 11 Dec 2005
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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| In your torrent program there should be an option to throttle back your download/upload speed. Set it something that will give a balance between browsing and downloading. |
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Stalin84
Joined: 30 Dec 2009
Location: Haebangchon, Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:00 pm Post subject: Re: trouble surfing while I download torrents |
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| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
I can't surf the internet while I'm downloading bit torrents.
Any suggestions?
I have the most basic internet service. I think my provider is t-broadband. |
What do you mean, can't? Is there an error message or is it just really slow?
If it's slow, is it network latency or system latency?
If it's the latter, then it's because Torrent software uses a lot of resources and your computer isn't fast enough to multitask. If that is the case, download uTorrent (it uses a lot less resources). |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Destroyer wrote: |
| In your torrent program there should be an option to throttle back your download/upload speed. Set it something that will give a balance between browsing and downloading. |
More specifically, I think you should throttle the upload. You likely aren't saturating your download speed (and even if you are, the computer can handle that) but if you are saturating your upload bandwitdth, you can't request pages from servers. |
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hagwonnewbie
Joined: 09 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:06 am Post subject: |
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I usually download about 20 at a time. So my speed is usually between 500kb/s and 1 mb/sec.
The pages I request usually time out.
I'll just have to download when I'm not surfing.
I guess I'm not the only one with this problem.
It's not the computer cause I can run plenty of apps at the same time. I think the connection in my new apart is weaker than the last. |
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tatertot
Joined: 21 Oct 2008
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:41 am Post subject: |
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| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
I usually download about 20 at a time. So my speed is usually between 500kb/s and 1 mb/sec.
The pages I request usually time out.
I'll just have to download when I'm not surfing.
I guess I'm not the only one with this problem.
It's not the computer cause I can run plenty of apps at the same time. I think the connection in my new apart is weaker than the last. |
Before you give up, throttle your upload speed and see if that helps. |
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wormholes101
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:29 pm Post subject: |
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| There is a little program that will sort out your problem but the name escapes me at the moment.. |
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phatrick
Joined: 18 Apr 2006
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Fri Feb 26, 2010 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| What OS are you running? I had that problem when I first installed Win7 64bit. I had never had this problem before with 2k/Vista. I was using the network driver that came with Win7. Installed the newest one and problem was fixed. |
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hugekebab
Joined: 05 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:28 pm Post subject: Re: trouble surfing while I download torrents |
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| hagwonnewbie wrote: |
I can't surf the internet while I'm downloading bit torrents.
Any suggestions?
I have the most basic internet service. I think my provider is t-broadband. |
Sounds like your isp is cutting you off when you are using torrents.
If you have utorrent go to options/preferences/bittorrent/protocol encryption/change to 'forced'.
This will encrypt your outgoing packets and may stop your isp throttling you.
If encryption doesn't work, then you could also try choosing a random port at start up options/preferences/connection/randomize port each start. This will help to throw them off the scent. If you have a router (not a modem), you may have low download speeds if you do this because the ports you randomize to may not be forwarded, so if this is the case uncheck the randomize ports. remember your original port number before you do this so you can restore it to that number.
op can you also post your hardware specs, windows version and bittorrent client version please. |
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