Torrents killing my internet connection

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, May 24, 2010 09:04 AM, slowertraffickeepright at mail.com wrote:
> Upgraded to 10.04 UNR. Acer Aspire One. Torrents worked fine until the
> upgrade. I've tried qtorrent too, same thing. Everything works for
> about 5 minutes, then my Internet goes out completely.
>

Let me guess...that Acer comes with a Realtek NIC?