Cable Forum - View Single Post

oscarandjo · 23-09-2020, 21:45

I've found in the past Virgin Superhubs really choked when I'd play PC games with a server browser.

When you clicked 'refresh', it would simultaneously connect to hundreds/thousands of servers to get metadata such as player counts, ping, etc. At the same time, my internet would completely drop out, both on my own PC and on other devices.

What fixed this was to go into my game settings and turn down the maximum connection rate to 100 from uncapped.

Routers will often choke when faced with too many simultaneous connections.

Even if the router didn't choke, in order to sustain 900 torrent connections, much of your bandwidth will be wasted on BitTorrent protocol overheads rather than the actual content you aim to download - it's counter intuitive.

23-09-2020, 21:45	#14
oscarandjo cf.member Join Date: May 2020 Posts: 36	Re: Network dying using torrents I've found in the past Virgin Superhubs really choked when I'd play PC games with a server browser. When you clicked 'refresh', it would simultaneously connect to hundreds/thousands of servers to get metadata such as player counts, ping, etc. At the same time, my internet would completely drop out, both on my own PC and on other devices. What fixed this was to go into my game settings and turn down the maximum connection rate to 100 from uncapped. Routers will often choke when faced with too many simultaneous connections. Even if the router didn't choke, in order to sustain 900 torrent connections, much of your bandwidth will be wasted on BitTorrent protocol overheads rather than the actual content you aim to download - it's counter intuitive.