SomeoneE1se Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Ok I've been having this problem with with my internet connection, it's really starting to piss me off so hopefully y'all can help. When I'm torrenting every so often my connection will just stop working. It won't tell me the connection has dropped, it will just stop working. If I close my torrent client, (and everything else trying to use the connection) it will tell me it has a limited or no connection. When this happens I can't disable the adapter or repair it. And when I try to restart, my computer hangs and I have to force it off via the power button. I'm out of ideas here and I REALLY REALLY REALLY DON'T want to have to reinstall my OS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
antirem Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 are you limiting your down and up speed? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 I set my upload to %60 of max and my down is not limited at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matir Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Is there any chance your ISP is doing something since they may not appreciate your torrenting? Do other large downloads cause a problem, or just torrent? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 It's my XP tablet box only I have a linux server and a Home box that are not having this problem. so I doubt this is a problem of my ISP or dd-wrt router Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matir Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Have you tried updating your network card driver? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 Downloading newest drivers from toshiba now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 Long shot, but if your using DHCP try changing the session time to 60mins. And does an ipconfig /release & /renew help you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hpr Posted December 20, 2006 Share Posted December 20, 2006 my modem pwns your modem, i get 128Kb/s down and 8Kb/s up, but seriously, do you happen to use cable because my cable modem does the same thing, but i have to go all the way out to my garage to get it reconnected, btw my modem is a D-Link something or other that the cable company supplied, reminder to self, subscribe to Fibre, Kill Evil Monkey, Pickup Milk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 20, 2006 Author Share Posted December 20, 2006 VaKo: if the connection goes down and I try /release /renew it just hangs. On release it won't work. And my router is already set to 60 mins my modem pwns your modem, i get 128Kb/s down and 8Kb/s up,but seriously, do you happen to use cable because my cable modem does the same thing, but i have to go all the way out to my garage to get it reconnected, btw my modem is a D-Link something or other that the cable company supplied, reminder to self, subscribe to Fibre, Kill Evil Monkey, Pickup Milk. When it's working I get 300 down and 60 up so at this point mine pwns yours because I can have to restart my computer 3 times and still have my downloads done first. It's not the cable and I almost sure it's not my dd-wrt router. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 Ok I'm fully updated and it just did it again. Anymore ideas? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 21, 2006 Share Posted December 21, 2006 Try removing TCP/IP from your machine, rebooting and installing it again. Sounds like the TCP/IP stack is fubar'd, so hopefully removing it and adding it again might help things. If that doesn't work, strip out all your software firewalls etc and see what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 21, 2006 Author Share Posted December 21, 2006 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/299357 I've already tried this.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 Yeah, but if something nasty has attempted to modify the actual files in question then just doing a reset won't fix it. By removing the actual files, and reinstalling them, plus doing a reset we can be sure that the TCP/IP stack is ok. You should probally remove and reinstall your torrent client to be safe as well. I take it you've done the obvious and checked for viruses, malware etc? And cleaned the dust out of the fans... sounds dumb but its worked for me some times. Hook up wireshark and check the system logs in event viewer, it should give a reason for hanging. And I take it this isn't a tweaked version of XP where you've allowed a stupid amount of connections. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomeoneE1se Posted December 22, 2006 Author Share Posted December 22, 2006 Ok I mostly keep my laptop in very good/clean state but I'll double check all my bases... In the mean time how to I uninstall the tcp/ip stack I can't find anything in google about it but I shall keep looking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted December 22, 2006 Share Posted December 22, 2006 becasue windows is windows it means reinstalling the OS ;) You could try sfc /scannow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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