Why is my network going down when I run Transmission?

[linux_69]

Hello Guys. I'm trying to download some torrents with Transmission but the network keeps going down. The torrent starts downloading with full speed and then my wireless network crashes; this happens very frecuently (literally 3 times in 10 minutes). I have Transmission with the default specs, haven't modified anything. How could I fix this issue?

Thanks for your help.

[doktor5000]

Could be that your router resets itself or cuts your wireless connection if he's not up to manage the mass of connections ...
Can you connect another box via cable to the router and take a look at it's status? Also please provide more information
what router and wireless device you're using.

FWIW transmission is running just fine here 24/7 with over 30 active torrents

[linux_69]

Mr. Doktor5000 I don't think that's the reason (Inability to handle the mass of connections) for the crash because (1) I put "torrents" in my post but actually I was downloading one single torrent, and (2) in the legacy OS I used to run I was a frecuent user of utorrent, and that never happened.

I was doing a bit of research and found out something about this problem; some people proposed randomizing port at each start, enabling protocol encryption, limiting the download speed (so the bandwidth is not saturated), modifying the peer limits, disabling the DHT Network and DHT for new torrents as solutions.

I haven't tried them because I don't know what most of them mean.

About the router all I could find is this: Cisco Linksys Wireless-N Home Router.

Hope that is enough.

[doktor5000]

I was doing a bit of research and found out something about this problem; some people proposed randomizing port at each start, enabling protocol encryption, limiting the download speed (so the bandwidth is not saturated), modifying the peer limits, disabling the DHT Network and DHT for new torrents as solutions.

Well, we'd need to know the status of the router when it drops the wireless connection.

Anyways, i'd more context information: Is port forwarding properly configured in your router for transmission/BT?
How did you configure port forwarding exactly?
How many connections are currently set in transmission network settings (per torrent/overall)?
Did you try limiting the download bandwith in transmission to ~80% of your overall download bandwith?