Router Crashing with UNRAID used as Utorrent save location

[jeffff]

Hi,

 

This is only partially unraid related - I'm just hoping that someone else might have come across this issue and can advise the best solution. My problem is with using unraid alongside utorrent, but I imagine similar issues might arise with other apps that make a lot of connections.

 

At the moment I am running utorrent on my Windows 7 machine but with a unraid share as the download location. I open a torrent on my Windows machine, it downloads to unraid. Pretty simple.

 

The problem I'm having is that my router is constantly crashing requiring a hard reset. I have 50mb cable internet, and if I am anywhere over 30mb/s then the crash happens pretty quickly. I've taken to limiting my download rate to about 20mb/s. This reduces the occurrances of a crash significantly, but it still happens several times a day.

 

I've also noticed that if I start utorrent with 500-1000 active torrents pointing to the unraid box, that normally instantly knocks my router offline. I'm guessing the quantity of traffic/connections is the root of the problem.

 

I'm using a D-Link DIR-615.

 

Does anyone think I could have another issue? Or is it just a case of buying a new/better router?

 

I'd definitely want a Wireless-N router. One that can handle a lot of connections, but that doesn't seem to be something that is commonly advertised in router specifications. Can anyone suggest a router that might fit my needs, let me use my connection properly, and most importantly stop me from having to reset the thing a dozen times a day.

 

Many thanks

[sureguy]

I'd investigate putting Tomoto, OpenWRT or DD-WRT on the router and see if that helps.  Any of those firmware alternatives generally perform better in this scenario.  It's also possible that with so many torrents you're running out of memory on the router. 

[mrow]

It must be your router. I have utorrent running on a Windows Embedded Standard 7 thin client and use my unraid server as the target over my Apple AirPort Extreme router, though my sever and thin client are both connected to a TrendNet gigabit switch, and I don't have any issues. I have about 80 torrents currently shared. I have torrents set to 50 connections max for download and 20 for upload.

[xtatdsm]

Your router can not handle that many "open connections" you need to limit/lower the max number of open connections in your torrent client to 100 or less. some routers have no issues with high number of open connections (linksis E4200 and E4500) but yours obviously is not one of them.

[dabl]

Below is a link to a post I made with my experiences with this kind of thing using transmission (vs utorrent) on an older smc router.

 

This post and/or other comments in the same thread may or may not be applicable to your environment but possibly there will be something of use.

 

http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=18546.msg165727#msg165727