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Originally Posted by rdhw
The problem with BitTorrent and domestic-market routers is usually down to the flaky firmware of cheap routers: most brands are as bad as each other. BitTorrent, of its nature, is capable of completely saturating your downstream and upstream cable bandwidth, and domestic routers do not behave well in those circumstances. A work-around is for the user to employ a BT client which is capable of rate-limiting its demands, and setting those rate-limits to be just less than the cable limits, so that there is some headroom for the router to work within (for instance, it can refresh its own DHCP allocation from the ISP).
There BitTorrent problems are not NTL problems, they are problems in the routers themselves.
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I completely agree with the above especially when used with a Linksys BEFSR41 router ( I have one
). They cannot cope with this kind of use. You have options though:
1. get a different router
2. rate limit (see above)
3. don't use Bittorrent