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Bobman32x
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_ 		14. September 2008 @ 03:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Ive been having a problem with torrents latley. i thought it was bitlord so i switched to utorrent but its still happening. anytime i try to download a torrent, about 20 minutes in, my router gets disabled and im forced to powercycle the router before i can use the internet again. its incredibly annoying as usually i would download torrents at night and the morning they'd be done, but i really cant. plus its even more annoying since the router is upstairs in my dad's room and its hard to get in there when my router craps out at 2 in the morning so i can unplug it and plug it back in. any suggestions?
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varnull
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_ 		14. September 2008 @ 07:47 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Welcome to what sounds like sandvine. My isp does it to soulseek.
Try turning protocol encryption on.
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Bobman32x
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_ 		14. September 2008 @ 17:03 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
how do i do this. im a noob in the networking world.

EDIT- NEvermind.
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Bobman32x
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_ 		14. September 2008 @ 18:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well i turned the encryption on and it still resets my router after a half horu or so
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nickberry
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_ 		14. September 2008 @ 18:43 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I used to get a similar problem when torrenting.

after a period of time - sometimes 30 minutes, sometimes 3 hours - my router would loose its connection and i would have to power cycle it. I even tried connecting my pc directly to my cable modem (incase it was my router failing) and found that would still do it, connection drop out - i noticed that my router/modem was loosing it DHCP address.

To fix this i found that lowering my upload rate stopped it happening and havent had the problem since.

maybe this will help!
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Bobman32x
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_ 		14. September 2008 @ 21:10 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
thanks. capping upload speeds at 25kb seems to have fixed the problem
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