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[rockinthesixstring]

no worries.. I hope it helps.

[Angelis83lt]

Just a quick reply. You do realize how torrents work right?  When you download you are also sharing at the same time. The sharing (upload) is generally what slows a connection down.  It also does not matter how much or how little is shared if they want to come after you.  However now the RIAA and MPAA have taken a new track and are just getting peoples internet account shut off rather than suing them (that was a losing battle for everyone). Although there are still places who will litigate you into nothingness.  A very good way to fix your problem if it is indeed file sharing or P2P is to make sure it is NOT installed on any of the computers. that is the only real way to protect yourself.

the QoS will help with your connection speeds if they do it, just won't help the consequences. Remember, P2P like utorrent is two ways. both an Upload and a download are generally needed.  Also a very good way to become infected with all sorts of nasty computer stuff  if you are not paying attention.

[Skettalee]

Thanks for the info but yes I already know all this stuff. I used to do IT and i still do for you know family and friend types. I know all about that stuff and setting programs when somethings done downloading it doesn't share anymore, it quits, and also i dont know 100% about anything illegal anyone here is getting but alot of the stuff that slows it down is still legal stuff too. like streaming all kinda shows through the net, the webcast stuff and serving files. My end i am a media professional so I got big HD files coming and going so i need my bandwidth....

But yes thanks for posting that, everyone else should also read that too to be aware of it. I make sure everyones computer stays clean though, im always fixing things up and making everything run better for them. and I do uninstall limewire when i get chances. I let them keep utorrent because there are alot of legal bittorrent things that they do.

Im even getting the kids into IT stuff and watching revision 3 content and trying to teach them about all that stuff. shoudln't have cause now they are just all over the net using my TUBES!!! i wantz my TUBES back.. lol..

Dont know exactly if that helped but i did get a "I think the net is going slow today from one of them" :-D so guess things are working! except that i found out i was uploading something to a client this morning and while at work they called and said its corrupt (not complete) they went and unplugged the damn router and net trying to see if they can speed the net back up and that went ahead and screwed me from sending something to a client today :-( cant win for nothing huh?

[Angelis83lt]

Yea. kids will do that. I have Mine set in my room which is then locked.  With utorrent you are going to share as you download, does not matter if you turn it to not share after the download is done. It is still sharing and connecting to other clients. You may want to check in the

"Preferences - >bandwidth -> Maximum Upload rate"  Should be at the very top of the window for it.  If you set that to 0.. then you are giving it all the bandwidth it wants for the upload.  The best you can do is set it to 1.  However you are STILL sharing as you download the information. There is NO way around that. Well. I should not say that. You could block the connections that are outgoing for it.  You would notice if you had done that though since the indicator at the bottom of the software would be yellow or red and not green.

So you will still be sharing, no matter how you have it set up in utorrent.  Torrents are designed to work that way. You downland and upload at the same time, and there is a ratio used to determine the Download speed based on your upload speed. (There is a sweet spot. I find that inputting 20 works best for using torrent based transfers. Any more than that and the speed starts to drop off on the DL. any less and the same.)  Just something you might want to check.  But yes. P2P programs will kill your effective amount of bandwidth

Another thing you can do if you insist on letting the kids use a p2p program like utorrent is limit the Download Bandwidth. ALL of them have this option.  It will be right under the upload bandwidth I mentioned earlier.  Set that to a reasonable number that still lets you do what you want, and be done.   Now the problem is, your kids can change any of those settings as well whenever they feel like it.

[Skettalee]

Yep, aware of all this. I set it at 12 kb/s upload max for seeding but when things would be done they are deleted off of utorrent right away. Also, they aren't my kids. Maybe I should just let them jump on someone elses wireless thats not protected around here. LOl, just kidding. but anyway yeah i think its working to make sure i get the majority of the bandwidth. thank you guys for the help with this too. I really owe you! so let me know if anything is every needed to be designed :

http://portfolio.337studios.com
(i really need to make a new portfolio page, thats like 2 years old)

but yet again thanks!