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MovedGoalPosts · 14-04-2007, 12:03

I doubt it's the torrent speed that is the issue, more the number of connections being made, and these may not be getting released in a timely manner.

Torrents work by throwing out a mass of connections to find who is sharing both up and down. These connections are continuously being updated. I've seen problems on the standard Linksys firmware where these connections data was held open too long, and gradually overwhelmed the memory in the router. In turn that overloaded everything else. Third party firmware and then adjustments to the connection timings on the router's setting fixed that. Even so with torrents, I rarely let it have more than 80 connection open for a maximum of 4 active torrents.

14-04-2007, 12:03	#9
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: SACM : Won;t work when going through router I doubt it's the torrent speed that is the issue, more the number of connections being made, and these may not be getting released in a timely manner. Torrents work by throwing out a mass of connections to find who is sharing both up and down. These connections are continuously being updated. I've seen problems on the standard Linksys firmware where these connections data was held open too long, and gradually overwhelmed the memory in the router. In turn that overloaded everything else. Third party firmware and then adjustments to the connection timings on the router's setting fixed that. Even so with torrents, I rarely let it have more than 80 connection open for a maximum of 4 active torrents.