This is simply due to the fact that p2p involves creating a lot of individual connections, and it has to handle the dataflow and direction of every one of those connections. Many (and I mean many) routers do not handle torrents very well. Belkin, for whatever reason, do not seem to be able to release firmware fixes to known problems across many of their routers (like the timer bug in the N1 Vision), despite the fact that they do release new firmware and it usually is supposed to fix the problems. At first it's easy to fix with a power cycle, but eventually the parts wear down and it breaks.
When a router runs hot, bad things happen. Every router I've ever bought for myself has run somewhat warm, but only the Belkin N1 Vision (that I currently use) has ever suffered overheating (and even then only when a careless parent had covered it with a pile of clothes). And they tend to only do WiFi-g or 10/100Mbps ethernet.Ĭhances are the cause behind the original problem lay in one of three areas. Finding a router that always works in every situation is increasingly hard. Yet right now, It takes a good 5 minutes to buffer a 2.5 minute video! I just hope that it recovers by Tuesday there's no way I can miss Nintendo's live E3 broadcast, and my internet needs to be back on form by then!īelkin does have problems with many of their routers, but so just every other company. It connects fine, but my internet is pretty damn slow right now! I've had slow-downs after torrenting before, and it just seems to recover it's speed if given time (how does that work exactly? Is it to do with bandwidth?). Right now, the only way I'm using the internet is by connecting my modem straight into the computer. It's been like this since yesterday at least, and it seems unlikely that it will just 'fix itself' like it always has before. Yet I KNOW that it is receiving power because, after more power cycling, there's a random chance for the router to come back on again, but remain dysfunctional. When I turn everything back on, the router either has the incorrect lights showing (some are orange, others are off entirely, etc.) or, like it is now, it just does not have any lights on at all. However, for the past 2 days my router has been odd. If the internet still does not connect, I just have to repeat this a couple of times, and everything works fine again. Most of the time, this is corrected by turning the router & internet modem off, and then back on (power cycling). No slow-downs, just completely disconnected. Usually, after some torrenting and a restart, my internet just doesn't work. The torrents finish downloading with no issues and everything works fine, UNTIL I turn the computer off (and disconnect the plugs for the cable modem, router etc.). I should mention that when torrents have finished downloading, my uTorrent is set to change the upload rate to unlimited when seeding, which I THINK is probably the problem here.
With torrents that are well-seeded, I get speeds of up to 1mb/s download, with my upload speed often sitting at a consistent 20~kb/s.
Basically, my download and upload speeds are a-ok. I had a workaround solution by using Fping, which somehow fixed the problem altogether (I followed someone's advice on a forum after loads of searching). For one, my DS has never been able to maintain a connection to the router because it automatically drops the connection to the DS for being too slow (the router wasn't listed as compatible anyway). Hey guys, I've had my Belkin router (F5D7230-4) for a few years now with plenty of minor issues.