All other programs have slow/dead connection (Windows)

[rubn]

Hello everyone,

I have had this problem as long as I remember (in terms of years), and I decided I'd look for a solution this once.
I've skimmed this forum, but couldn't find much (also, most words I uses for this problem are filtered words by the forum (because they occur too much )).

Anyway, the problem is that whenever I start Shareaza, all my other programs' connections become very slow, if not dead. (E.g. Firefox page loading lasts more than 10 minutes if it loads at all, ftp times out, etc..).

Win XP SP3 / broadband DSL / port forwarding / Netlimiter (which limits Shareaza).

Since I had that problem I never used Shareaza anymore when I am on my PC. I' d like to change that again...

Anyone any idea? Thanks.

[ailurophobe]

Usually this is caused by having the upload bandwidth set too high. Second possibility is having the number of Downloads.MaxConnectingSources set too high. Third is having a firewall or router that gets overloaded by the number of open connections.

[old_death]

[ailurophobe]

Additionally, you might have NetLimiter configured incorrectly. If you wish to limit Shareaza bandwidth use it is better to limit the max usage in Shareaza (80% or so of upload) than use the NetLimiter. If everything is set correctly the netlimiter should not hurt anything, but using it to limit Shareaza does not seem to do anything configuring Shareaza correctly does not already do, and setting it up wrong could cause the problems you described.