I have a Linksys Wireless-G Broadband Router WRT54G Version 2 (More info). Most of the time it works flawlessly but, if I start downloading torrents (I use Azureus, but it does it with others too) on my main pc then for all intents and purposes the internet shuts down (stops working) on all the other pcs connected to the router (wireless or otherwise) and on my main pc I can't connect to any web pages, messengers, ect, (but the torrents connect to their trackers just fine) but when I shut down the torrents everything seems to go back to normal. Anyone have any tips or help? I have upgraded to the newest firmware for it in hopes that it helps but haven't tried running torrents yet for fear of not being able to post for help. :x:
Welcome to hardwareforums Alucard! :beer: try pinging Google from the other computers... if you get most / any back then i would suggest that bittorent is swamping your bandwidth.
Bittorrent uses bandwidth in both directions. If you use up your bandwidth upstream, you cannot send requests to sites to download from them either, so surfing is either slow or stops if you max out your upstream. Also, small home routers have extremely limited RAM onboard, usually between 4-16mb. Obviously, that's not a lot for handling a lot of socket connections, and incidentally, torrents by nature need a lot of socket connections. The solution there is to either buy a better router, build your own, or use less simultaneous connections in your torrent client.
