BitComet killing my bandwidth.

Is this normal? I remember that in my previous notebook I could be using bitcomet and browsing with very little impact. However, Whenever it is turned on, both IE and Firefox (with and without fasterfox) will take ages to load a page.

I have 1 MB cable, download speeds range from 40 to 100 Kbs and upload from 1 to 25.

 

Hucsman,

Depending on what speeds you are downloading/uploading at you are going to see a drastic slowdown. Upload will kill your web-browsing because of the communication between the website and your comp. It is kinda hard to explain, but it does slow it down quiet a bit.

 

So I coud expect this out of any client, not just BitComet?

 

You can expect it with any client...it is due to the download/upload speeds that the program is using. So if you had the same speeds in a different client the same thing would happen.

 

I'm not a fan of BitComet, and some sites specifically advise against it's use. There are plenty of alternatives.

However, this is easily resolved. You should probably limit your torrent client's total bandwidth to about 3/4 your internet connection speed(up and down). So go into the settings and adjust those maximum upload and the maximum download appropriately(remember...your upload is probably way slower than your download...for many broadband setups).

You can also search for how to optimize windows and your particular router/firewall for the client. There's plenty of tutorials on google.

 

Hmm...it's true what you say, but when I used Bittorrent, my connection wouldn't get killed as easily. I could have the same download speeds with it as with Bitcomet but with Bitcomet would definitely hug all my bandwidth. I live in a small country and I have to pay $50 a month for a 128kbps cable connection (albeit crap) so I have to stay days downloading a 100 MB file and when I had Bitcomet on, I wasn't able to even connect to MSN.

I've seen in Bitcomet that there are two different downloading/uploading speeds and the higher one (never knew what exactly represented) never matched the actual speeds registered with the files. It is that speed that usually kills my connection.

Hence, I changed to uTorrent (stopped using bittorrent after a serious drop in speed) but I still have to see if it works good since I'm using it on wireless and I have yet to configure the router properly.