Wireless Router for P2P

[spud1962]

Hi

I'm looking for advice in choosing a wireless router.
I have a Virgin cable set-up with an old NTL100 modem.

I currently have a Dlink DI-624 w/less router, which works fine
for ordinary internet browsing.

But, when I download using P2P software, bitcomet, vuze, etc, the router
"hangs" after about an hour and downloading stops . I then have to reboot both modem & router to resetablish a connection again. This seems a common problem with this model router when using P2P clients.

Tuning down the download rate seems to help, but at a rate of less
than 95 kbs, this is undesireable.

Has anyone got knowledge of a combination that works at full speed ?

[MovedGoalPosts]

The issue is less likely to be the download connection speed, but the number of connections you are allowing with your torrents. Torrents throw our a mass of connection attempts as it tries to find any available seed. The router tries to keep track of those over a period of time. Track too many and it's internal memory overflows causing the crash. This was a common problem with some of the Linksys WRT54G routers which could be fixed by putting third party firmware on the router which added extra tracking options.

You do need to have a balance of the upload speed to ensure that that is not being staurated. Generally you shouldn't be higher than 80% of your maximum.

[vanman]

Originally Posted by spud1962

Hi

I'm looking for advice in choosing a wireless router.
I have a Virgin cable set-up with an old NTL100 modem.

I currently have a Dlink DI-624 w/less router, which works fine
for ordinary internet browsing.

But, when I download using P2P software, bitcomet, vuze, etc, the router
"hangs" after about an hour and downloading stops . I then have to reboot both modem & router to resetablish a connection again. This seems a common problem with this model router when using P2P clients.

Tuning down the download rate seems to help, but at a rate of less
than 95 kbs, this is undesireable.

Has anyone got knowledge of a combination that works at full speed ?

have you set the P2P clients to port forwarding.
Routers don't have 'bittorrent' settings to turn on/off. Forward ports 6881-6999 for bittorrent and for other p2p 6346.
http://compnetworking.about.com/od/b...rrentports.htm

[spud1962]

Thanks for the advice, folks!