BitTorrent + Linksys router = hang

I've been trying to get BitTorrent-3.3 to work through my Linksys
BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing. I can't
browse to the internet or to the router management port. The only fix
seems to be to power-cycle the router. The problem exists with
BitTorrent on Linux or Windoze.

I removed the router from the network and it works great. Anyone else
seen this? Any experiece with BitTorrent and other routers?
Alan

On 7 Nov 2003 21:50:46 -0800, (E-Mail Removed) (Alan Lehman)
wrote:

>I've been trying to get BitTorrent-3.3 to work through my Linksys
>BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
>Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing. I can't
>browse to the internet or to the router management port. The only fix
>seems to be to power-cycle the router. The problem exists with
>BitTorrent on Linux or Windoze.
>
>I removed the router from the network and it works great. Anyone else
>seen this? Any experiece with BitTorrent and other routers?
>Alan
Check firmware date, get latest from Linksys site and install.
I got constant "server connection closed" messages when trying to post
to Usenet from Free Agent through BESFR11 router. Thought problem was
ISP, but updating router firmware solved it.

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> I've been trying to get BitTorrent-3.3 to work through my Linksys
> BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
> Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing.

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> > BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
> > Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing.
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Thanks. I found out that if the router hangs while running Bittorrent,
and I reset it while leaving Bittorrent running, Bittorrent will
resume and the router won't hang again until I start a new Bittorent
session.

I am having this exact problem. I believe that it is due to the sheer
number of TCP connections and they start to overwhelm the router. I
have the same router and tried upgrading the firmware to fix the
problem, but it didn't work.

Anyone know if Netgear or D-Link routers have this issue? I have seen
it exhibited on another model of Linksys router as well.

-Steve.

(E-Mail Removed) (Alan Lehman) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> I've been trying to get BitTorrent-3.3 to work through my Linksys
> BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
> Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing. I can't
> browse to the internet or to the router management port. The only fix
> seems to be to power-cycle the router. The problem exists with
> BitTorrent on Linux or Windoze.
>
> I removed the router from the network and it works great. Anyone else
> seen this? Any experiece with BitTorrent and other routers?
> Alan

(E-Mail Removed) (Steve Dinn) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> I am having this exact problem. I believe that it is due to the sheer
> number of TCP connections and they start to overwhelm the router. I
> have the same router and tried upgrading the firmware to fix the
> problem, but it didn't work.
>
> Anyone know if Netgear or D-Link routers have this issue? I have seen
> it exhibited on another model of Linksys router as well.
>
> -Steve.
>
> (E-Mail Removed) (Alan Lehman) wrote in message news:<(E-Mail Removed). com>...
> > I've been trying to get BitTorrent-3.3 to work through my Linksys
> > BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
> > Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing. I can't
> > browse to the internet or to the router management port. The only fix
> > seems to be to power-cycle the router. The problem exists with
> > BitTorrent on Linux or Windoze.
> >
> > I removed the router from the network and it works great. Anyone else
> > seen this? Any experiece with BitTorrent and other routers?
> > Alan

Yeah. Having that many masqueraded connections established at once
will slow down any equipment. I have a 700MHz (2x350) dual-PII router
that barely breaks a sweat under normal conditions that can be brought
to its knees by a single bittorrent session.

To my knowledge, the only way to fix this is to get a faster router.
:P

-icy

On Thu, 20 Nov 2003 18:56:43 -0800, Steve Dinn wrote:

> I am having this exact problem. I believe that it is due to the sheer
> number of TCP connections and they start to overwhelm the router. I
> have the same router and tried upgrading the firmware to fix the
> problem, but it didn't work.
>
> Anyone know if Netgear or D-Link routers have this issue? I have seen
> it exhibited on another model of Linksys router as well.

I had that problem until a few days ago, when I forwarded the BitTorrent
ports. Doing that will increase download speed much.

The ports to forward are 6881-6889

Enjoy.
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>(E-Mail Removed) (Alan Lehman) wrote in message >news:<(E-Mail Removed) .com>...
>> I've been trying to get BitTorrent-3.3 to work through my Linksys
>> BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
>> Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing. I can't
>> browse to the internet or to the router management port. The only
fix
>> seems to be to power-cycle the router. The problem exists with
>> BitTorrent on Linux or Windoze.
>>
>> I removed the router from the network and it works great. Anyone
else
>> seen this? Any experiece with BitTorrent and other routers?
>> Alan
>
>I am having this exact problem. I believe that it is due to the
sheer
>number of TCP connections and they start to overwhelm the router. I
>have the same router and tried upgrading the firmware to fix the
>problem, but it didn't work.
>
>Anyone know if Netgear or D-Link routers have this issue? I have
seen
>it exhibited on another model of Linksys router as well.
>
> -Steve.
>

I just bought a Netgear WGR614. It seems to work fine with appropriate
ports forwarded.

Alan

I'm also using a linksys router.. WRT54G, and it seems to work fine with
bittorrent, so long as I don't try to do too many things at once.. But yeah,
if I make too many connections, it will 'hang', but not completely.. it just
seems to fail on the internet side.. I just have to log into the router and
disconnect/reconnect from the net for it to work again.

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> >(E-Mail Removed) (Alan Lehman) wrote in message
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> >> I've been trying to get BitTorrent-3.3 to work through my Linksys
> >> BESFR11. It will run for a few minutes and then the router hangs.
> >> Although the lights keep blinking, the bits stop flowing. I can't
> >> browse to the internet or to the router management port. The only
> fix
> >> seems to be to power-cycle the router. The problem exists with
> >> BitTorrent on Linux or Windoze.
> >>
> >> I removed the router from the network and it works great. Anyone
> else
> >> seen this? Any experiece with BitTorrent and other routers?
> >> Alan
> >
> >I am having this exact problem. I believe that it is due to the
> sheer
> >number of TCP connections and they start to overwhelm the router. I
> >have the same router and tried upgrading the firmware to fix the
> >problem, but it didn't work.
> >
> >Anyone know if Netgear or D-Link routers have this issue? I have
> seen
> >it exhibited on another model of Linksys router as well.
> >
> > -Steve.
> >
>
> I just bought a Netgear WGR614. It seems to work fine with appropriate
> ports forwarded.
>
> Alan