Wireless usb adapter dying after 5 minutes when using bittorrent

[provoke.bpk]

I have a netgear wpn111 and a belkin router. If I use bittorrent for 5 minutes the connection dies, and I have to unplug the adapter and plug it back in. This problem started about 6 months ago when a reformatted. I have reformatted many times before the problem showed up and it was fine. Can someone tell me what I have to do? Would replacing the adapter work?

 

[Nodsu]

Are you sure it is the adapter that dies and not your router that is flooded with hundreds of connections caused by BT?

 

[provoke.bpk]

yes, I'm sure because when I'm downloading and the adapter goes down my other computer is okay.

 

[eroz]

How many connections are allowed to connect to you? You might have to go into the settings for the torrent client and limit it to less than 60. I was also having problems with that (the torrent dying on me after only 3-5 minutes) a few months ago.

 

[provoke.bpk]

I tried Eroz's method. Didn't work.

 

[eroz]

Do you have your router, Network connection, bittorrent client and/or firewall setup correctly? It could be a combination of all those things. Make sure you have the same ports called out on the bt client, firewall and router. If you don't have a static IP address on your network connection, create one.

 

[tipstir]

Disable Windows firewall don't use anything else except Peerguardin2. But again a lot of these routers just can't handle the flood of connections. I would recommend you going to Best Buy and pickup the Dynex E-401 wired router and use that for downloading BT. You'll be happen and it only cost $39 bucks, but if you can find one though? If you use a client that supports UPnP the router I am talking about will setup everything for you. You don't have to do any port forwarding an etc..