Losing LAN with uTorrent

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Vague

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I have a a GA-EP45-UD3R with a Realtek 8111C onboard NIC running Vista 64 ultimate. This build is a month old. The router is a Linksys WRT150N

The problem I'm having is when I when I run my torrent client over night I wake up in the morning to find I've lost all lan connectivity, no IP, can't renew IP, no network access. Vista sees the cable as being plugged in but that's it. Other computers on the lan have no trouble and maintain their connectivity.

I've had a little trouble finding updated NIC drivers as the Gigagbyte site doesn't list them and the Realtek site is too convoluted and slow for me but I've run Microsoft Update and updated the driver that way.

I've read that Vista has a limit of simultaneaous connections and when that limit is reached it'll disable the lan in some fashion in an effort to curb malware that can have the same symptoms. I've lowered the connections limit in uTorrent to 50, maybe I should take it down further? It seems like maybe I'm not the only person running Vista and uTorrent though and I'm the only one reporting this problem.

I couldn't decide whether this belogned in Networking/Securty, motherboards, OS, or general software so Gen Hard is where it landed. Won't hurt my feelings if it gets moved. TIA
 
God I had the same problem - it would only occur in vista and with my rig. I nearly pulled my hair out trying to figure this one out, I actually went back to XP believe it or not. I've since changed out my cable modem for a nicer one and things seem to work again with vista. I dunno what the problem exactly was, but I feel for you lol.
 
- Limit your number of connections in uTorrent to like 150 or so, with around 10-20 connected peers per torrent
- Set uTorrent to use port 52491
- Set windows firewall to allow uTorrent to pass through
- Install DD-WRT on your router and...
---- set max connections to 4096
---- port forward uTorrent's port range (52491 through say.. 53500)
---- set TCP and UDP timeout to 120
---- setup QoS so uTorrent is "Bulk" and prioritized connections like HTTP are "Premium"

You don't need to change anything within Vista.
 
Well that was fun.

I bricked my wrt150 during the install. flashing power light.

So $90 later I have a wrt160n.

I've been using it for 10 minutes. uTorent is pulling in ~450k/sec and I'm still able to browse the web, albeit a little sluggishly.

It was a refurbed wrt150 anyway, only out $50.
 
Vague said:
Well that was fun.

I bricked my wrt150 during the install. flashing power light.

So $90 later I have a wrt160n.

I've been using it for 10 minutes. uTorent is pulling in ~450k/sec and I'm still able to browse the web, albeit a little sluggishly.

It was a refurbed wrt150 anyway, only out $50.
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I would look into solutions for unbricking your router. You may be able to recover it and at the least have a second router around just in case.

 
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