I'd love it if anyone else had some information on this. Using the same 1000 STB and ethernet x-over cable I get drop outs while using bittorrent (and kazaa when I used that) resulting in me having to reset the STB to regain connection.
What puzzles me is that this is seemingly random, for instance the other night my connection died after 30ish mins of d/ling a bittorrent file, I had only uploaded to two people, 8meg total and never over 5kb/s. My bittorrent client only detected 10 other people using that torrent and my download rate stayed around 15kb/s (pretty low, but it was an under-used torrent so expected).
Conversely I have had bittorrents uploading at 15kb/s for many hours while downloading 500 to 2gig files at 60-70kb/s before the connection drops.
Also perhaps unrelated, if I reset the STB and I still have a program trying to maintain an active connection to the net (such as a BTclient or mirc would try) the pc will fail to automatically reconnect to the net, is this common? It is easy to fix generally anyway by turning off mirc's auto-reconnect and closing bittorrent. I have noticed my firewall will not let me "repair connection" (from the network connections in winxp home) but if I turn it off then it will, this is not a problem as such but perhaps will be useful info.
I'd be happy to find out any other info I can for anyone who has a clue why my connection keeps dropping when all my bt adsl friends have it good
