I have a few torrents going 2-3 at the moment and last night my room mate comes down and is like, "You know the network is unstable right?" I reply, "What do you mean?" then he's like, "My DPS went from like 8000 down to like 2-3000, I'm trying to cast spells and my timing is all fucked up!"
My connection is roughly 3/1 - I may be wrong here...
533kb/s down
80kb/s up
I'm limiting every torrent to 10kb/s upload because they are very large and just leaving them go 24/7. I'm using uTorrent and a LinkSys wireless router and my room mate is wireless if that makes any difference. I've noticed the max upload slots per torrent is currently set to 8 and I was wondering if lowering that would make any difference. I don't think it will but something tells me the less outgoing connections I have or something less lag will be noticed...
I'm usually capping my download rate up until midnight as to not interrupt his WoW so is there anything else I can do to improve the time it takes for the files to finish and/or improve both while not hogging all the bandwidth?
limit your overall connections even more and set a global 10KB/s upload limit. not the nicest thing to do when using public trackers, but who cares if it's (over)seeded anyway.
and do a hard reset (pulling out the plug) every 2 days. i had a linksys wrt54g a while ago and using torrents made everything go fubar after a few days without reset.
Yeah I have the same router - and after a few days if I let it run free Firefox shows "Net Error" and refuses to connect to anything, I don't want to limit it too much some of these torrents are showing 3 weeks + to complete. So I'm trying to find an even ground...
trial and error, mate. play around with the limits until you find the sweet spot where gaming and torrents work at the same time both to a sufficient degree. i know it's possible - i managed to run torrents while playing online fps and my roommate doing his WoW thing (somewhere, somehow everyone has a roomie playing wow ), all at the same time - on a 4mbit down/512kbit up line
and if you haven't enabled fastpath yet, do it now.
oh and i nearly forgot the most important thing: the standard linksys firmware is a steaming pos, go and install the tomato firmware. nice design, some useful little extra features and better overall performance.
My settings are 350/100/5, and allow me to max both download and upload no problem. The ideal is to limit the upload speed to 75% of your max upload to allow TCP packets to travel back. Of course, this is ideal for idle downloading. I find that lowering upload limit to 55%-60% during normal internets usage is optimal for me. If you have a specific schedule, you can use uTorrent's scheduler.
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), all at the same time - on a 4mbit down/512kbit up line 
