So i have no clue how to fix this, ive never had this happen before. Everytime im downloading torrents, it would always stall at first and then after a minute it starts downloading and it literally kills the internet everywhere, like its hogging it all. Which is weird as all hell.i have the 1 gig plan with ATT. ANy suggestions on how to fix this? i thought maybe its my adapter but why would that kill the internet everywhere else as well?
The fix for me was to get rid of their modem. Works perfectly now.
Use a VPN. The router will see a single connection and you are protected against copyright claims.
Although I want to go the papas route myself.
It is my experience firmware and software are tentative and I always ask all the devs around me.that when they “FIX” one thing, please don’t break 2 more.
This is actually a good thing. It means you have good peering with att and the torrent hosts. This is a very simple fix, back when I had 1gb fiber ( now on a way faster plan ), I would just throttle the torrent client itself to like 80 MB/s ( 800mbps ). I use qbitorrent and on the bottom of the app where it shows how fast it is downloading, you can click on it and it will bring up a speed slider. Look for the one that says “all downloads” or just downloads, and adjust it to a lower speed. Takes 5 seconds. If it makes you put in kbps, 80,000 would be 800mbps. Just have to find the option in your torrent client.
P2P applications uses a lot of connections and well ATT BGW gateways can only handle up to 8000 connections which messes up Torrenting. Even if you have a separate router that can handle more connections like an openwrt router, the problem is IP Passthrough doesn’t work in torrenting applications since the ATT router still has a NAT table that it needs to keep track and it can only handle up to 8000 connections even in IP Passthrough mode.
My suggest is get a better router like a MikroTik or Openwrt wired router and get yourself WAS-110 with a media convert. Basically, you want to Bypass ATT router and toss it aside.
Please check out 8311 Discord.
And check this video out and hopefully you have XGS-PON:
use speed limits in your torrent client.
It’s the ip table of the att modem gets full then performance tanks.
Restart the modem and it fixes for a while.
Get a router with QoS controls, run it behind the ATT RG in IP Passthrough mode. Depending on the complexity of your QoS controls, you should be able to limit BitTorrent at the application level, or at a minimum have it limit the max bandwidth one app or device can consume.
This is the overview, specifics depend highly on your specific hardware (other than the ATT RG.)
I thought AT&T fixed their shitty firmware.
OP asked, “ANy suggestions on how to fix this?”. This is a good option. Likely to last a very, very, long time. At least as long as ATT is using these modems and technology.
Not an option for everyone nor likely to last forever.
Thanks! doing this and limiting connections seem to of fixed my issue for now!
This ^^
Another solution is to do P2P over a VPN. At that point, the ATT BGW only sees one / a few connections between you and the VPN provider.
And disable Active Armor unless you really really need it.
the thing is, its killing the network before it even gets any speed. itll be stuck on 0 kb/s for a minute or 2 after it “starts” and its still murdering the network
Another user is working with them to test a version that does but it isn’t being widely used yet.
It has nothing to do with speed. It has everything to do with how many simultaneous connections are in use.
ah okay, i limited the connections and i limited the speed as someone else suggested, and internets working fine now!