bit torrent locks up my system

ishiiiishiii Cold lake, AB, CA
edited April 2004 in Science & Tech
Hey guys

My pc locks up and freezes but only when I have a torrent or two going. and not all the time
It totally locks up. if I go into the event viwer i get this error message
"Adapter Intel(R) PRO/100 VE Network Connection: Hardware failure detected"
I got a asus p4t533c mobo and im usen the onboard lan with the latest drivers, well I cant find any newer ones.
Ideas suggestions, let them fly
Thanks guys

Comments

  • leishi85leishi85 Grand Rapids, MI Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    what BT client u using??

    i use ABC and never had any problems.
  • ishiiiishiii Cold lake, AB, CA
    edited April 2004
    Im not usen a client. errr I guess its just the plugin
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited April 2004
    Um, limit the client to about 1\2 max of your upload bandwidth. You do need a BT client for what you are doing, and if the client grabs more bandwidth based on card than your internet connect supports, you will get phantom lockups-- card will be waiting for ISP while the Windows drivers are validity testing it, which they do every once in a while. Other possibles-- bad cable, bad connection (the spring wires on back of box in LAN\NIC connection being dusty or corroded some from moisture, ditto contacts on cable connector, which are brass\bronze and WILL corrode easy in high moisture areas of world), cable being cat3 and not cat5e will limit you to 10 Mbit max thorughput through cable often.

    That is it for the hardware side, software side that can do this is worng NIC setup in O\S, and\or gremlins on the computer. More than one NIC setup can do this, if you have a LAN and WAN setup (both), XP has been known to test and fault the NIC as the LAN appears unconnected while BT is running. DISABLE the LAN connect and leave the WAN connect active to get around this.

    John D-- who choked a box like that (and other ways) with Linux, same exact NIC you have, managed to do it all these ways in combos too complex and specifc to explain without a client-specific function\flow explanation that would take two-three fullscale articles to really set out clearly (I use DFDs in my head for such things), but lowering max bandwidth limit fixed it for most of the time (like 95%, once I had it tuned).

    I had a 256 Kbit upload limit. I set the BT in Linux to 128 Kbit, and told it to accept one outward remote connect at a time, but this was in Linux (pure BT). BT is a BOTH ways client usually, that is how P2P works, so upload limit rules the per connect and max limits you set in BT--- NOT download limit, client can download and upload on same pipe, defaults to doing BOTH.
  • croc_croc_ New
    edited April 2004
    BT often crashes our router when it tries to open too many connections (well thats what we think). You should be able to limit the amount of connections in the options of your BT client. Also if you can set your connect speed to isdn/dialup (BT 3.3 experimental, by shad0w) and limit your upload to 3kb ... it says it will determine your dl speed based off of ul speed, but you still get fast dls with that ... must be a bug.
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