Question impact of a lot of torrents on a router

[velocci]

Hi all, I have an ISP modem in bridged mode. I have my own netgear router (R7200) and a switch. plugged into that switch I have all my machines and I also have a QNAP nas. I also have two TV boxes plugging into that switch. on that NAS i'm running a Windows 10 virtual machine that I use for my torrenting. At any given time I have almost 50 torrents seeding, but because of my very low upload speeds that I'm getting from my ISP, i usually have anywhere from 0 to 500kbps uploading. from time to time my internet goes down and I have no wifi (to my netgear router) and wired connections are also not working. the last time this happened I had to reboot my netgear router. my question is, does having over almost torrents seeding, (even though not much actually uploading), causing me to have to reboot my router? my network is 1Gbps. Thanks in advance.

 

[Eximo]

Hard to give an answer to this.

Obviously doing something on the router vs nothing will have an impact. It will run a little hotter.

Routers can crash, they do have internal processors and memory. If it becomes a regular issue, might be time to consider a replacement.

 

[rgd1101]

how many leecher?

 

[bill001g]

Almost impossible to say but a router has a limited amount of memory. It for a period of time will keep old NAT entries. You can easily crash many home routers by rapidly open many thousands of sessions.

 

[Math Geek]

how many should not be a problem. your client should be set to a max number of connections based on your speed. too many connections could crash it, but if you have settings correct then it won't happen as the client will stop accepting requests until slots open up.

you got something else going on most likely that may or may not be related. but i don't think how many are seeding is the problem based on my experience. (fyi, i currently have ~2500 seeding with no issues....)

 

[velocci]

Hard to give an answer to this.

Obviously doing something on the router vs nothing will have an impact. It will run a little hotter.

Routers can crash, they do have internal processors and memory. If it becomes a regular issue, might be time to consider a replacement.

Right now I have a Netgear R7200. what spec in a router tells me if it can handle a lot of throughput/data without crashing? I don't want to buy another router and I get one that is not much better than what I already have.

 

[COLGeek]

What kind of content are you torrenting? How large are the files (typically)?

 

[Eximo]

I can't say I am much of a network equipment expert.

But newer routers are likely to have more efficient chips, so take a look at the power input requirements.

I don't think many go out of their way to list internal memory specifications. Logically, higher port numbers, max connections, and bandwidth should equate to internal improvements.

 

[velocci]

What kind of content are you torrenting? How large are the files (typically)?

movies. files are from 10-80gb in size.

 

[COLGeek]

movies. files are from 10-80gb in size.

That is a lot of content being pushed. Are these copies of commercial movies?

 

[velocci]

I can't say I am much of a network equipment expert.

But newer routers are likely to have more efficient chips, so take a look at the power input requirements.

I don't think many go out of their way to list internal memory specifications. Logically, higher port numbers, max connections, and bandwidth should equate to internal improvements.

so I should look at the CPU it has or the speed? take the Netgear RAXE300 for example. it says its 7.8Gbps. is that the number I should be looking at? does it mean it can handle an internet connection speed of upto 7.8Gbps or that it can handle 7.8Gbps going through it without causing problems?

 

[velocci]

That is a lot of content being pushed. Are these copies of commercial movies?

i'm not sure how they are made. but its not like all the torrents i have is downloading at the same time. I might be downloading 1-3 movies at any given time. most of the time nothing is being downloaded. I don't remember if anything was being downloaded the last time my router crashed.

 

[Eximo]

so I should look at the CPU it has or the speed? take the Netgear RAXE300 for example. it says its 7.8Gbps. is that the number I should be looking at? does it mean it can handle an internet connection speed of upto 7.8Gbps or that it can handle 7.8Gbps going through it without causing problems?

I believe they are saying that combined you could have 8 WiFi connections being serviced at once. So about 1Gbps per wireless device. Assuming you had 6E capable devices needing that much bandwidth, and they were close enough to the router.

On the wired side it is more typical of late model routers. 1 2.5Gbps and 5 additional 1 Gbps ports (7.5 Gbps total again)

That only matters when you have devices communicating with each other on the network. You aren't likely to have anywhere close to that type of internet speed. But with that much overhead, you would expect less issues.

Probably more than I would pay for a router for myself.

 

[velocci]

I believe they are saying that combined you could have 8 WiFi connections being serviced at once. So about 1Gbps per wireless device. Assuming you had 6E capable devices needing that much bandwidth, and they were close enough to the router.

On the wired side it is more typical of late model routers. 1 2.5Gbps and 5 additional 1 Gbps ports (7.5 Gbps total again)

That only matters when you have devices communicating with each other on the network. You aren't likely to have anywhere close to that type of internet speed. But with that much overhead, you would expect less issues.

Probably more than I would pay for a router for myself.

i don't care too much about wireless. all I use for wireless are a few phones and a couple of tablets. neither one is torrenting. what router would you recommend that is cheaper? preferably netgear

 

[Eximo]

You'll just have to look at the models available. Consumer grade stuff isn't meant to be complicated.

If you want details, look at professional grade equipment from the likes of Cisco, Ubiquiti.

Maybe consider a non-wireless router plus an access point, many many options out there.

 

[velocci]

since I have all my wired devices on a 24 port switch and that switch is plugged into one port on the router, is it possible that when I setup QoS for the two devices in my network, one low priority and one high priority, that it caused all my devices to stop working? just wondering why my two TV boxes stopped working working. if I would have had those two devices plugged directly into the router, maybe this wouldn't have happened? or maybe this is why my router crashes, cause everything is going through one port?

 

[COLGeek]

i'm not sure how they are made. but its not like all the torrents i have is downloading at the same time. I might be downloading 1-3 movies at any given time. most of the time nothing is being downloaded. I don't remember if anything was being downloaded the last time my router crashed.

Just so you are aware. Tom's Hardware does not support any form of software piracy. None. Period.

It seems rather obvious that you are torrenting copyrighted material and this can lead to legal issues.

Closing this thread now.