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[shockingalberto]

So this is kind of an odd one.

I've had a DIR-655 for the last six or seven months (all four computers on the network run wireless with it) and all of a sudden, everytime I leave uTorrent running, the router will still broadcast, but nothing can be accessed.  Utorrent can't connect to peers, Firefox (or IE or Chrome) can't connect to the web, iTunes can't download podcasts, etc., etc.

Power cycling the router seems to fix it temporarily, as in I can access the internet again, but it will inevitably happen again.

Here's the weird part: it only seems to happen if I let the torrents run idle.  That is, if I'm on the net and running uTorrent, surfing or what have you, I get no such problems.  But if I leave it on overnight, or go out, or make lunch downstairs, it will happen. 

Well, that's not to say nothing happens when surfing the net.  Intermittently, I will get weird wireless disconnects.  The router uptime doesn't reset, but the internet seems to lose access.  I thought this might be my wireless card (a DWA Wireless Desktop Adapter) but A) it happens on my XBox 360 and laptop, as well, and B) my old POS Linksys WRT54G that I'm using right now is working fine.  I don't know if these problems are connected (it happens even if I'm not running torrents), but it is a problem.

Any help?

[dirkpitt]

Have you enabled QoS?  Have you configured your port forwarding?

Of course, the usual H/W, F/W revisions may be of use...

With all of the troubles that I have encountered, I haven't had any problems using torrents with my DIR-655. 

[shockingalberto]

Firmware is the newest, 1.33NA. 

Hardware is A4.

I have ports forwarded correctly, the problem happens with QoS enabled or not.

[EddieZ]

Decrease the number torrent connections, both in and out.

[gailh]

I may have a similar problem. I have been using uTorrent, installed on a PC - Windows XP SP2, behind a NAT PC using ICS - Microsoft "Internet Connection Sharing" on Windows XP SP2 as well - all was going fine.

I've decided to use D-Link router, hoping to improve throughput. Instead, all uTorrent traffic is choked. (Uploads too). All other Internet traffic works fine. My ISP uses L2TP, dynamic IP address allocation. And yes, the incoming port is open.

TIA

Gail

[ironic77]

To be fair, getting choked is a problem any time you're running something that's using all bandwidth in either direction.  If I run an upload at full speed, any downloads are also slow because I can't even ACK the packets.

That said, this router seems to have issues where it will run great for days and days.  Then suddenly, you start getting drops and delays.  Next thing you know, you can't even access the router.