wine + utorrent = router crash in a few hours

Soukyuu · 2014-08-19 20:43:12

It didn't happen when I was using windows, or at least not often. I have left the same settings when I was using it under windows, so it shouldn't be a configuration issue.
My connection has quite a high... loss/damping/attenuation? not sure which is the English term. That might be one reason it's putting a higher strain on my router. It is stable otherwise though, no disconnects.

I have also tried other torrent clients and the issue is not happening. Something else happens instead, which essentially results in the same - loss of connection. I am honestly sick and tired of trying to get a torrent client to run without it crashing and the company which made this router isn't helping either. I was actually having the same issue on an older router, and replaced that one with this new one. And once I changed back to utorrent, it starts crashing just like the old one. I'm pretty close to just dumping everything and going back to windows -_-

So, tl;dr: is there something about wine which might put even more strain on a router when using a "wine" torrent client? Maybe more so on a less than perfect connection?

yoyosan · 2014-08-20 06:51:41

Hello Soukyuu.

Try to limit your upload bandwidth from utorrent.

It seems like a router problem to me, though.

Last edited by yoyosan (2014-08-20 06:55:51)

Soukyuu · 2014-08-20 09:55:48

Considering it doesn't happen when I use µtorrent on windows, I really doubt it's a router issue. Especially since another (older) router shows the same behavior, as I said. And once I stop using µtorrent, the crashes stop, also. This pretty much exclude a defective device in my eyes. Feel free to point out any logical mistakes I might be making.

Limiting the upload in µtorrent doesn't work, sadly. I previously had it unlimited, relying on the uTP and the router to prioritize the traffic. Now it's also limited to be below my maximum upload, but the router still crashes when µtorrent is running. I have also tried to set the low_cpu option in the advanced section, which is supposed to make µtorrent create connections less aggressively, and it doesn't really change anything.

emeres · 2014-08-20 10:39:16

Try installing utorrent in a clean wine prefix and running it with default settings. Does the router also crash with utorrent just opened without any down/uploads? Look into wines documentation, check if any debug channels for network turn up anything relevant when utorrent is run with WINEDEBUG variable.

alphaniner · 2014-08-20 13:45:59

This is completely off the cuff, but I remember nLite (a tool for creating modified WinXP install media) having an option to raise an OS-wide limit on the number of packets or connections or some such. Maybe that limit explains the different behaviour between Windows and Linux/wine.

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#1 2014-08-19 20:43:12

wine + utorrent = router crash in a few hours

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Re: wine + utorrent = router crash in a few hours

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