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[mack the knife]

Whenever I download a torrent with more than a few hundred seeders, my internet inevitably crashes. I mean, it doesn't just kill the torrent, it kills all internet activity, and I have to fully restart the computer. I've tried "repairing" the connection but it's no good.

Thoughts?

[mindmetoo]

I had that happen too. Do you have one of those internet connections where you have to log on via a little dialog box? I had one of those connections and I'd get the connection loss. However, they switched me over to an "always on "connection (megapass) and the problem went away.

[jaebea]

Maybe try resetting the TCP/IP stack.

Type the following in Start->Run:

netsh int ip reset resetlog.txt

As mm2 mentioned, letting a router handle the connection could help.

Let us know how it goes.

jae.

[Gord]

It's probably just the unresolved open-port limit. Under Service Pack 2, a limit of 10 unresolved open-ports was put into place to cut down on spamming and other assault issues. If your torrent client isn't set to a maximum number of unresovled open ports under that limit, that means it will basically kill your ability to do anything else as it uses up all the open ports and XP simply won't initiate another open port until the number of unresovled open ports is less than ten.

If you are using Azereus, for example, you can set the number of unresolved open ports.

[T-dot]

i have the same problems.

lately ive been pausing the download and then restarting to prevent crashes.

[Gardimus]

The same was happening to me. One thing I did was change firewalls from the one provided with my motherboard to Zonealarm. Since doing it I've been able to download torrents just fine....knock on wood. I only did that yesterday so I will see if t holds up in the long run.

[mack the knife]

[Gord]

It's listed in the options menu under "simultaneous outbound connection attempts" and you should probably have it 5 or so. Anything higher than that and you'll notice web pages loading slower.

[T-dot]

how about if im not using azeurus.
im using bitornado.

[mack the knife]

All right. Have the info., time to roll with it.

Garcias

[skconqueror]

[Gord]

[Gord]

Two other, but less likely, issues can be:

1. Poor router. Linksys, for example, have tanked lately in their quality for reasons unknown (my first one worked fine, the two since then are useless and needed to be replaced with other solutions). When failing, no computer using it under a shared connection can talk to the world instead of just one failing.

2. Max Connections Globally in Azureus. If this # is too low, it causes serious issues with the computer losing the ability to talk to the Internet. Why? Good question, no good answer. Running it at 200 is what I do, while testing it running at 20 lead to the machine tanking.

[hanguker]

Go to:

http://www.lvllord.de/?lang=en&url=downloads&PHPSESSID=148ed8b713513610cfb8f90828ea5dd0

There you can download a patch that will fix XP SP2 TCP open bug. Just run it and enter 50 of half-open connections. You shouldn't have problems after that.

Still have problems and you're using utorrent? Check:

Options->preferences->advanced->net.max_half-open

Make sure the setting isn't more that about 30-40 so you still have some internet connections open. If its at 8 (default), that should be fine. Leave it at that.

Good luck

[mack the knife]

I'll try those last suggestions, as resetting the number of ports didn't do the trick.

I'm probably just a silly man, but is it possible that my internet provider is simply shutting me down because I've exceeded some magic number? Remember, it's not just Azureus that goes down, it's the whole kit-n-kaboodle. Once Azureus freezes, the only option seems to be restarting the computer (if I want to reconnect to the internet, that is---naturally, other programs still function properly). I've tried repairing the connection, etc., to no avail.