uTorrent

[mycarsavw]

Have you set it up correctly?

Pushing everything up to the highest speed because you think it'll work better, doesn't work.

utorrent's site appears to be down (for me at least) but there's a guide there to follow;

utorrent setup guide

[HSK]

Google for the solution to Vista's tcpip.sys half-open TCP connection limit. You have to patch tcpip.sys and perhaps a registry entry, too. It's pretty much essential if you will be doing heavy torrenting.

Symptoms would be errors from the tcpip service in the "system" event log saying that connection limits have been reached.

Thanks for the tip, i'll research it on google, and investigate the event log.

[HSK]

Have you set it up correctly?

Pushing everything up to the highest speed because you think it'll work better, doesn't work.

utorrent's site appears to be down (for me at least) but there's a guide there to follow;

utorrent setup guide

Hmm I'm pretty sure that i;ve got it all setup right, I've used it in the past on this laptop, then it was fine, and i've pretty much got the same settings - but i'll run thru the user guide, thanks!

[Apex]

As above

Have a look for the patch for Vista's tcpip.sys half-open TCP connection limit

patch it to say 256/512

in bit torrent

limit the number of global connections
limit the number of upload slots per torrent
limit the maximum number of active torrents
limit each torrents upload speed, ie limit to around 75% in total
set the half open limit in utorrent to say 200 for the 256 limit 456 for the 512 limit

This should help, you could also try tweaking firefox's number connections

ps if you are using a router to access to the inet a lot of them struggle with more then 192 + connections so if your swamping it you could find that's causing the issues