Hey all, I'm having some issues when running BitTorrents on my PC. Speeds are okay, not great on the BT session (I'm not complaining about this at all) I generally pull between 15 KB/s and 30 KB/s, every once in a while, it will get up to 60 or 70, i've tested my b/w to max out at about 140KB/s. I usually upload 15-18 KB/s...I am capped at about 20KB/s.
The real problem is that all other internet based applications get incredibly slow when there is a BT session open. it probably takes 5 times as long to open up a web page than when there is no BT session. I have tried shutting down my firewall (ZoneAlarmPro) completely to see if that is somehow causing a bottleneck and it doesn't help at all. When i try to load a web page, it takes a while to get started and it also takes a while to download once it starts. seems like some kind of memory conflict.
I'm running a P4, 2.0Ghz, 512 MB Ram w/DSL.
Does anyone know of a software conflict that could be causing this? Anything? There are a ton of processes running on my PC at all times and I'm gonna try to start taking some of them off. However, CPU commitment never gets above 40% and memory used total never exceeds 25%, so I can't figure out where the problem is...any help?
thanks
-damon