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Old 07-11-2005, 11:12 PM
Blarg Blarg is offline
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Default Re: Glitchy internet connection when running bittorrent...

I was having this exact same problem last night -- and I do mean exact -- and it kept me up late into the night. I was finally unable to connect to the internet repeatedly, even after turning the router on and off and my computer on and off several times. An automatic message came up from my 2wire brand router(Yahoo DSL) that I might be infected by a blaster virus, but I downloaded cleaning tools to check, and apparently I wasn't. Regular Norton AV checks revealed nothing.

For some reason, I was eventually able to connect to the net again, but my connection was generally very slow, whether I used dial-up or DSL.

I've left my computer on for weeks, downloading torrents, and never had this problem until last night. I have no idea what's going on, but when I finally stopped downloading the second to last torrent, my connection speeded up again.
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