The default maximum connection limit is 200 in High Mode, 50 in Medium Mode, and 15 in Low Mode. A good thing here is you can raise and drop the connection limit on the fly through the traffic limit menu. This is a popular general download manager for Windows that also includes a torrent client. Click OK.ĭO NOT uncheck those two boxes because that will set the maximum connection number to unlimited and will make your connection situation worse.
Set the global maximum to about 100 (or lower if you wish) and the per torrent number to something equal to or less than the global number. The other is the “Maximum number of connections per torrent”.ģ. One is the “Global maximum number of connections” that affects all running torrents. Alternatively, open the Tools menu and select Options (Alt+O).Ģ. Press the Options button on the toolbar that looks like a cog wheel. An issue it has out of the box for slower internet connections is a high default maximum global connection value (600).ġ. QBittorrent is one of the most popular torrent clients currently available for Windows. Here we show you how in a number of popular torrent clients. The solution is to lower the global connections limit in the BitTorrent Client. The default settings in a BitTorrent client are sometimes set too high and it chokes the connection.
This happens mainly because there is a large number of connections that BitTorrent utilizes at once, and it is using more connections than your internet connection or router can handle. There are ways to configure most torrent clients so that if you’re having similar problems, your internet won’t get disconnected while downloading torrents. Restarting the router is not a good solution because when the torrent detects a connection and starts downloading, the connection gets killed again. To get back the connection, you might need to disconnect and reconnect the internet connection, restart the router, or even reboot the computer. Pinging the router could also give a “Request time out” error message. All of sudden, the internet connection might seem like it’s been cut off as if someone is using NetCut and there are problems browsing the web or your messenger program disconnects, etc. A bigger problem you could encounter is when someone else is on the network streaming or online gaming and your computer is downloading a torrent. If you don’t tweak the configurations, most probably it’ll take you longer to complete downloading the torrent because the default configuration might not be very well optimized for your router or internet connection.Ī slow to finish download is not really a big problem. Download, install, load a torrent file and it’ll start downloading, provided any needed ports are forwarded correctly. Many popular BitTorrent clients work right out of the box.