New to Torrents and hoping someone can help!

justcrash · #1 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 04:13 PM

I dabbled with Azureus a few years ago, once or twice (literally) and never bothered again.

Recently I started getting back in to it and I see Azureus is now Vuze. Ok, cool.

I run the install to the newest version of Vuze and it seems pretty cool, built in search, etc.

EXCEPT: Now the internet gets knocked out on every other device in the house on the router. Xbox, the wireless laptop, my wife's WIRED work laptop and the machine that is hosting the torrent app is slow as molasses and won't surf either. I have downloads that are telling me they are going to take 3 YEARS to get.

I figured "Ok, so the new Vuze is borked". Then I tried BitTorrent, and got the same thing. I even went to oldversion.com and got the old version of Azureus (that I had no issues with years ago). The old version forced me to upgrade to the newest version.

Specs:

2.8 gig CPU
4 gigs of RAM
2 x 500 gig SATA HDDs
Linksys WRT54G router (wireless).
XP Pro SP3

What I have tried:

I've limited both my upload and download speeds (which I hate doing, both for myself and for the community), changed my max DLs to 5, and changed my global connections to 20 (from the default 250). I've also set up port forwarding, trying one from the suggested range as well as 300000 which was not being used by anything.

I am hesitant to upgrade my firmware on the router because I didn't set it up to start with (I hate wireless stuff), so if there is a chance I will lose all of my settings and STILL not be able to use a torrent program, it kinda scares me!

Please give me some advice and feel free to speak to me like I am a 5 year old.

ToTaL · #2 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 05:40 PM

Try Utorrent cant really go wrong with it

justcrash · #3 (**permalink**) 12-04-2009, 05:42 PM

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Originally Posted by ToTaL

Try Utorrent cant really go wrong with it

I tried that right before bittorrent but all the links on it (help, search, etc) were dead and it appears they were absorbed by bittorrent, no?

nefan · #4 (**permalink**) 12-07-2009, 02:36 PM

Might be your router not being configured properly. Give static IP's to the computers on your network (should stop IP conflicts). Also your ISP might be limiting your P2P bandwidth.

justcrash · #5 (**permalink**) 12-07-2009, 02:41 PM

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Originally Posted by nefan

Might be your router not being configured properly. Give static IP's to the computers on your network (should stop IP conflicts). Also your ISP might be limiting your P2P bandwidth.

Thank you for your polite response sir, it is nice to see. I did a lot of research and basically determined the software on my Linksys wireless router stunk. I threw the linux based flash on there and it's working like a champ! I appreciate your help!

bakedbean · #6 (**permalink**) 12-07-2009, 02:48 PM

I think the best thing for you to do is read up on how bit-torrent works. Someone one pointed this out in another post Documentation - Torrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client

And from personal experience I find Vuze a pile of junk for a client software.

justcrash · #7 (**permalink**) 12-07-2009, 02:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nefan

Might be your router not being configured properly. Give static IP's to the computers on your network (should stop IP conflicts). Also your ISP might be limiting your P2P bandwidth.

Quote:

Originally Posted by bakedbean

I think the best thing for you to do is read up on how bit-torrent works. Someone one pointed this out in another post Documentation - Torrent - a (very) tiny BitTorrent client

And from personal experience I find Vuze a pile of junk for a client software.

Thank you for the link, sir, I will give it a look. I also saw another wiki link someone posted about "outwitting an ISP" which I just read. I am a quick learner.

EDIT: I can't get that link to load for me (I've not had any luck getting any links related to utorrent to load). Any ideas?