Comcast covering? Or can this actually happening?

[blithen]

well I've been having random quick shutdown of my internet. But it only happens for a little bit. I called comcast and they said it was 'cause of me downloading torrents. It overloads something in in the router we have. I was just wondering if that actually happens?

[LaRoza]

Comcast has been limiting torrents, look it up on google, I am sure you will get the full story there.

[blithen]

I know that. I get horrid upload speeds. But my internet shuts down when I'm not evening running torrents.

[hanzomon4]

I've had my internet die as well after heavy downloading, bellsouth(at&t now?). Strange thing is the router shows that I'm connected to the internet and my network traffic monitor showed that every few minutes my computer would have dl and ul traffic but I couldn't even ping google! Strange...

[misfitpierce]

It does actually happen. If they see torrent traffic they purge your connection resetting peers etc. Try changing default port and using encryption.

Also if they have seen it recently they may just send a random purge here and there to make sure until they see it no more. Possibility I suppose.

[blithen]

I've had my internet die as well after heavy downloading, bellsouth(at&t now?). Strange thing is the router shows that I'm connected to the internet and my network traffic monitor showed that every few minutes my computer would have dl and ul traffic but I couldn't even ping google! Strange...

Woah! Sounds like the same thing that is happening to me. It must being torrents overloading something in the router. Though I can't remember what it is. I THINK it was a cache or something like it.

[chris_nava]

It's quite possible to overheat your home router when pushing large amounts of data. This is especially true for WiFi routers. Check the temperature of your router. If it's hot to the touch put a small desk fan to blow on it. This should lower it's temp and make it more stable. Also, check out your torrent settings and look for a "maximum upload rate" setting. Tune this to about 25Kb/s for cable modem to avoid overwhelming your router.

[-grubby]

I know this doesn't really help you, but I found this satire article written by MaximumPC to be pretty funny http://www.maximumpc.com/article/com...umer_bandwidth

[n3tfury]

It's quite possible to overheat your home router when pushing large amounts of data. This is especially true for WiFi routers. Check the temperature of your router. If it's hot to the touch put a small desk fan to blow on it. This should lower it's temp and make it more stable. Also, check out your torrent settings and look for a "maximum upload rate" setting. Tune this to about 25Kb/s for cable modem to avoid overwhelming your router.

yep. blithen, when you power cycle your router/modem does the net come back?

[blithen]

yep. blithen, when you power cycle your router/modem does the net come back?

When I pull the power from the router it comes back on.