Time Capsule/AEBS and bittorrent

I'm thinking of getting a Time Capsule and I'm wondering how well it copes with bittorent. The cheapo router that came with my Verizon DSL has a hard time keeping up with bittorrent and as a result, Internet access is greatly impaired (and my parents complain ) as soon as I run a single torrent . So can anyone with either a Time Capsule or an Apple Extreme Base Station chime in with your experiences with bittorrent? Thanks!

 

I use transmission and as long as I limit the max connections to 200 my cheapo netgear router handles all my traffic fine.

 

it has nothing to do with your router, you just need to make sure your connection settings are somewhat reasonable.

 

Just like circa said, if you're using up all your bandwidth downloading and uploading with torrents, then that'll kill internet speeds within the house.

Unless its a super old router, or something really really cheap(doubt it), its not the router. probable fix, is to get a higher tier internet package.

Though, sure, you could get a new router, though it might not fix the problem.

 

It has everything to do with the router. I have a 3Mb/786k DSL line and limiting bittorrent to 100KB (down) and 20KB (up), about 1/3 of my total bandwidth, should not kill the internet for everyone else. Torrents work by establishing a ton of connections to different peers and a lot of routers choke when handling all of these connections. I've tried putting limits on the global connections in my bittorrent client but that hasn't really fixed the problem. I usually have to do a hard reset on the router to get everything back to normal.

 

As Chris27 said the router you are using has an incredible effect on how well a bittorrent client can deal with traffic. I had a Netgear WGR 614 V3 that simply collapsed under wifi torrenting and ground normal traffic to dialup speeds via ethernet torrenting. I upgraded to a WGR V7 and my traffic on all sides is now fine. I work in DSL support and torrents, especially multiple streams like I use (40 and up) can cause serious performance degradation even if the torrents are only using 1/5 of bandwidth. If you are gonna play with torrents invest in a good router or your simply asking for trouble. A bad router simply can't route large amounts of traffic efficiently and they are not all built the same.