Torrenting disconnect´s my internet.
I don´t know if this is the right category or even the right site for this question but it´s the only place i found that people actually help people and are active.
Whenever i start downloading torrents through a torrent client my internet disconnects.
The time it takes for this to happen varies from 1 minute to 2 hours though usually it´s about 5-10 minutes.
This only happens when using ethernet cable. For example a mobile broadband connection (i think that´s it. the usb pluggable thing that has it´s own service agreement) works fine.
The following things have been ruled out through testing, physical and everything i could think of.
It´s not:
The router
the internet provider
anti-virus firewalls
the network card
the ethernet cable
the torrent clients settings
the torrent client
a virus (unless it slipped from 3 different anti-virus programs)
the torrents (no matter the site, the torrent, or it´s size, amount of seeders etc.)
Using Windows 7 64 bit
Edit: I need to restart my computer to get the connection back again, restarting the router or unplugging and plugging back does nothing.
I found couple of people with the same problem but on the occasion that they managed to fix it the fix didn´t work for me.
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Have you tried limiting your connections in the torrent program? Try to limit active torrents to 2 (while testing).
Max connections to torrent 50
Max connections globaly 200
Try to "Run as administrator" option when clicking on utorrent/bitcomet icon and start seeding / downloading something. If it won't help, try to shut down the PC and router completely from power cord and re-plug them back after 10 minutes. First plug in to power cord your router and then PC and turn it on.
Open CMD by clicking start icon Command Prompt(Admin) and paste this command:
ping www.google.com -f -l 1500
If you will see the message like: Packets need to be fragmented but DF set, drop the test packet size down (10 or 12 bytes) and test again, to 1490 - 1480 - ... Drop the test packet size down more and test again until your reach a packet size that does not fragment.
Once you have a test packet that is not fragmented increase your packet size in small increments (1-2 bytes) and retest until you find the largest possible packet that doesn´t fragment. Take the maximum packet size from the ping test and add 28. You add 28 bytes because 20 bytes are reserved for the IP header and 8 bytes must be allocated for the ICMP Echo Request header.
In my case the latest stable one was 1454 + 28 = 1482 < This is my optimal and workable MTU packets.
After you found your optimal packet sizes, you need to apply settings to your ( VPN / LAN connection ).
Open CMD as Admin and type:
Repeat all these operations with all network adapters that you have. If you are using PIA it should be called Ethernet2 and Ethernet re-check names in "Open network and sharing center" so these commands will sound something like this :
Let us know your results.
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I don't know what alot of this stuff actually does, but just out of interest, why does adding 28 to the optimal max packet size make sense? Shouldn't it be included in the optimal max pocket.