What is the best router for bittorrent?

[Super strokey]

I have a WRT54g right now and its a fine router till you get bittorrent going. THere are too many connections and the router just doesnt like that. Does anyone know of a router that is better suited to this? I will need something fast and this is for a hardline but i do have a few laptops that use it wirelessly but they dont use bittorrent.

[aZnDeViLbOi]

as long as u port foward it does matter there is summ "torrent router" but those are in the hundreds

[Super strokey]

as long as u port foward it does matter there is summ "torrent router" but those are in the hundreds

Tried that, its a known issue with them i guess... not to happy about it. Ill try again but what other suggestions do you have? I download so much i dont mind spending a good amount of coin to get a really good one.

[tdotcbc84]

yeah i was wondering the same thing !

however, my DLINK 524 has been doing well with bittorrents!

won't give me the fastest speeds, but at least i won't need to restart !

[wonton1017]

If you use wireless, dont get the DI-624. (Although i get a good speed...)

I use it, and i hate it. It disconnects even though i configure it properly, it overheats and drops the connection of wireless users.

So i decided to plug the router into a switch, so that i use the wired and my family use the wireless, since they dont play games and they rarely use it.

I recommend getting a Trendnet or a Linksys. (Heard Linksys had problems too, i dont know)

[Super strokey]

If you use wireless, dont get the DI-624. (Although i get a good speed...)

I use it, and i hate it. It disconnects even though i configure it properly, it overheats and drops the connection of wireless users.

So i decided to plug the router into a switch, so that i use the wired and my family use the wireless, since they dont play games and they rarely use it.

I recommend getting a Trendnet or a Linksys. (Heard Linksys had problems too, i dont know)

Yeah im on a linksys at the moment. Im trying to remember the name of the routers that are specifically designed for torrents, they have like a built in hdd or something. One was asus or linksys i cant remember. Any?

[aZnDeViLbOi]

fet the 108mp ones... and upgrade ur LAN if its 10/100 get 10/1000 its the difference if u use wired connection

[Super strokey]

fet the 108mp ones... and upgrade ur LAN if its 10/100 get 10/1000 its the difference if u use wired connection

ok noob question time, is it better to use my nvidia integrated ethernet port or the marvell one? I have a asus a8n32-sli if that makes a difference

[wonton1017]

ok noob question time, is it better to use my nvidia integrated ethernet port or the marvell one? I have a asus a8n32-sli if that makes a difference

Their pretty much the same, use the one with more mbit/s, Gigabit (1000mbit) is better than 100mbit..duh.. xD

It all depends on your router, if your router supports Gigabit, then Gigabit would be better.

When i say better, i mean it would be better when you transfer files in your network... Otherwise, they would perform about the same when you download and surf the net etc...

[aZnDeViLbOi]

ok noob question time, is it better to use my nvidia integrated ethernet port or the marvell one? I have a asus a8n32-sli if that makes a difference

your motherboard is pretty new it looks like u have the gigabite one...

go here find ur router and do the steps it helped me...

http://portforward.com/

i havae a suky trendnet wireless-g and my speeds are only 10-20 kbs... when there was no router i go 200 kbs... good days.... good days....

[tubs]

I have a WRT54g right now and its a fine router till you get bittorrent going. THere are too many connections and the router just doesnt like that. Does anyone know of a router that is better suited to this? I will need something fast and this is for a hardline but i do have a few laptops that use it wirelessly but they dont use bittorrent.

I'd stick with your WRT54G and flash it to a third party firmware such as DD-WRT.

With a third party firmware, you can adjust the maximum number of ports and the time that a connection is dropped if it stops responding. You can also limit the number of connections your client makes.

I had this problem too with my WRT54G & BitComet where if I put the cap on connections at 100, it would almost be non-responsive. With the above mentioned fix, I tried 800 connections + my bro on World of Warcraft with no problems.

Here, read up on this link for more details:

WRT54G DD-WRT Router_Slowdown

[maniacshopper]

I'd stick with your WRT54G and flash it to a third party firmware such as DD-WRT.

With a third party firmware, you can adjust the maximum number of ports and the time that a connection is dropped if it stops responding. You can also limit the number of connections your client makes.

I had this problem too with my WRT54G & BitComet where if I put the cap on connections at 100, it would almost be non-responsive. With the above mentioned fix, I tried 800 connections + my bro on World of Warcraft with no problems.

Here, read up on this link for more details:

WRT54G DD-WRT Router_Slowdown

I agree. I used to have the stock flash, BT kept killing my connections, required a rest. Not only that, I couldn't surf with 2 downloads.

After flashing with a third party firmware, now I can surf with 2 downloads at the same time. You can adjust the wireless power transmitter as well.
Linksys and Dlink are the only routers I'd ever consider buying.

[CodecX81]

keep in mind that if you are wireless and only have an 102.11b router, anything over a regular broadband internet connection will be useless to you.

The maximum bandwidth of 802.11b is 11mb (1375k/sec max) Once you factor in all the overhead etc for the connection, the maximum download speed caps off at 375k/sec (about 3mb)..so you are literally wasting money on anything higher.

Always know your bandwidth values for your upload speed. its the leading cause of choked internet. Take your value and divide by 10.

(Or the long way.. divide by 8 to convert bits into bytes and subtract 20% of that to allow for overhead)

With 800k upload your max upload should be set to 80k/sec
with 320k upload, your max upload should be set to 32k/sec..

You get the idea.
With this setup, I have a server whose constantly torrenting and I never feel internet slow down with my actual PC, since I am allowing room for my download speed to be unaffected.


its also a good idea to update your network drivers and use wired whenever possible.


Aside from that... a few months ago, I upgraded to a WBR-1310 from a MN-500 router, I connect to it wired and I've never had a problem with either of them. I torrent pretty heavily too.

The WBR-1310 is 44.99@bestbuy. Good luck everyone!

[Derringdo]

Like others have said, look into a third party firmware for your WRT54G. Find out which version it is and then download the appropriate firmware. I recommend either DD-WRT (more complicated setup process) or HyperWRT Thibor. uTorrent's FAQ has a good section on fixing WRT54G routers to work properly with torrents: link

[CdTriX]

buy an old P3 computer and install IPCOP on it. Make sure the P3 has a second NIC...

Buy some junky router with wireless and disable DHCP.

Voila!

a router that wont get overloaded because it has 32 megs of ram! And wont always need a reboot..

Mind you, you'll need to know a little bit of linux