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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => Routers / COVR => DIR-655 => Topic started by: Sehs on November 03, 2009, 09:15:33 PM

Title: Torrents making wireless not function?
Post by: Sehs on November 03, 2009, 09:15:33 PM

Does anyone ever encounter a problem where, if you are downloading lots of files (high bandwidth usage, torrents for example), your wireless connection will just stop working? It will show that it is still connected but browsing/downloads/uploads nothing works. Usually this is remedied by disconnecting and reconnecting to the network again. Any ideas why?

Title: Re: Torrents making wireless not function?
Post by: Julia on November 04, 2009, 02:07:31 AM

Quote from: Sehs on November 03, 2009, 09:15:33 PM

Does anyone ever encounter a problem where, if you are downloading lots of files (high bandwidth usage, torrents for example), your wireless connection will just stop working? It will show that it is still connected but browsing/downloads/uploads nothing works. Usually this is remedied by disconnecting and reconnecting to the network again. Any ideas why?

It seems you have the same problem. Solution is here http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=9119

Title: Re: Torrents making wireless not function?
Post by: EddieZ on November 04, 2009, 10:12:08 AM

Seems quite logical that when one causes a 'traffic jam', all traffic comes to a stop.

Torrents create massive upload traffic (people (BT clients) connecting to your Ip. Since the upload (send0 bandwidth is average very limited, the bandwidth gets congested. As a result you can receive data, but TCP IP  is based on ask-reply-acknkowledge (send-receive-send) so the send is smothered. Clear?