Unusual P2P/router problems

[Mikey]

This is long and complicated, but I didn't want to sound like a vague newb.

I had my network set up on a plain old Netgear hub, and the status light in my bit torrent clients was always yellow as a result, but download rates were pretty steady (albeit a little slow). I then replaced the hub with a router and forwarded the proper ports, (also did the same with my Limewire). The status light turned green, but download speeds immediately dropped to very very slow speeds, much slower than when I had it on my hub or when I was directly connected to my DSL line, although upload speeds remained about the same.

To complicate things further, both downloads and uploads drop to absolute zero after a few minutes and I can't access anything on the internet at all, not even in my browsers or messengers, and I can't access anything on my home network either. This also makes my computer stop responding, as if everything's put on hold until it gets a response from the network. Sometimes unplugging the ethernet cable for a while fixes it, but I usually have to restart. It does the same in Limewire, but usually only if I'm downloading a lot of files at once, or if the download speed maxes out.

It never happens when I'm downloading from HTTP or FTP.

Any ideas or suggestions?

My specs:
Windows 2000 Professional
3Ghz Pentium 4
512MB RAM
SBC Yahoo DSL
Dynex DX-E401 Router
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[pipes]

Make shure your ports are open on your router, seed for awaile after download, and get a better bittorent client that can adjust your upload speed. I think it has to be like 1/3 of your download for full speed of it. Play with it and see what it does. Get utorrent. Its the shit.<img src=smilies/thumb.gif>
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[Mikey]

After trying every bit torrent client I could find and having the same problem, I tried Azureus (for about the 6th time), and enabled Transport Encryption. I'm not sure if that's what fixed it, or if even as I speak my computer is once again on the brink of self-destruction, but it seems fine right now. The light is green and downloads are zooming faster than I dared to imagine.

I'm guessing SBC filters torrent downloads or something. The pathetic bastards.
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[Mikey]

Same problem crashed my computer immediately after I wrote that. I should have knocked on wood.

At this point I'm thinking I just bought of piece of shit router, but is it even possible for router/port conflicts to completely lock up and crash a computer?
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[CEpeep]

> At this point I'm thinking I just bought of piece of shit
> router, but is it even possible for router/port conflicts to
> completely lock up and crash a computer?
>

I had a router that would lock up and send fucked up packets across the network, regularly crashing a number of computers. I replaced it and the problem went away. It should also be noted that heavy Bittorrent traffic used to crash the DLink router I bought as a replacement occasionally until I did a firmware update, so I'd suggest that first. What type of router did you get?

EDIT: I see it's a Dynex. Might try seeing about a firmware update from their site.
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[WhoaMan]

i suspect the problem is that you have a double NAT, does the SBC Yahoo DSL do routing at all? if so, disable DHCP, NAT, and other features of the Router and use it as a switch. this should fix your problem.... you extremly lucky you dont have a VoIP phone or you would have some strange problems (though a STUN server might have helped... heh)
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