Torrents killing my internet connection

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Mon, May 24, 2010 20:44, Jeroen T. Bezemer wrote:
> On 24/05/10 05:49, slowertraffickeepright at mail.com wrote:
>> No, I rent a room where I live. Router is in someone else's room, so I
>> never plug in. Thanks again for your help so far!
>
> well, that could mean your Atheros wifi-card is flakey, or the router is
> rejecting you, either because of the torrents, or because it is out of
> memory due to all incoming connections.

It could also be that the router doesn't like a huge amount of half open
TCP connection, and gives up (hangs or crashes). I have seen this with
several 'el cheapo' routers. Sometimes they don't even need a reboot to
recover, just give it a couple of minutes and they will be back alive,
when all the thousands of connections have stopped.