DStation drops my internet connection

[perseon]

Hi everyone,

I have a problem -actually I think many people have in case you have a bad router and a torrent program- regarding my internet connection when I use the Download Station. If I have the DS active I can not use internet, the bandwidth is used completly by DS. Does anyone know how to solve this problem?

I have DS211J and DSM 3.1. DS I did not change any parameter set by default. Additionally I have a Belkin router F5D8635-4v1.

Many thanks in advance,

[HarryPotter]

The settings in Download Station allow you to limnit the bandwith of your download tasks.

[Tevildo]

Hi,

I am experiencing the same problem. Whenever Download Station is active other internet connected applications suffer badly. I am aware of the possibility of changing the settings for bandwidth limitation but this does not seem to help.

The following examples have these starting prerequisities: All torrents in DS are finished downloading and the maximum upload limit is set to 60 KB/s (this is most often maxed out but it is well within what my internet connection is capable of).

Example 1:
A friend calls me on skype. I answer the call and soon realise that the connection is totally garbled and Skype itself reports that there is a bad connection between me and my friend. I go into DS and lower the upload limit from 60 KB/s to 5 KB/s and watch the actual upload speed go down to this number. Unfortunately this doesn't make any difference for Skype call quality. I go into DS again and pause all torrents whereafter Skype call quality immediately becomes excellent.

Example 2:
I fire up Left 4 Dead (or any other ping-dependent game) for some FPS-gaming. I join an internet game and quickly finds the ping to be unbearable, jumping constantly and most of the time being between 500 and 1000 ms. I go into DS and lower the upload limit from 60 KB/s to 5 KB/s and watch the actual upload speed go down to this number. However, this does nothing to improve my ping in Left 4 Dead. I go into DS again and pause all torrents and upon returning to the game I discover that my ping is now where it should be, roughly between 20 and 50 ms.


It very much seems that Download Station hijacks the internet connection totally no matter what bandwidth limits are set. I am on DSM 3.1 for the moment but during the use of DSM 2.x I used transmission for a while and I never experienced any of these problems. Maybe this is something which has been corrected in DSM 3.2 which I am upgrading to soon.

Well, let's see if someone else also have had the same experience and possibly solved the problem.

Nice forum by the way. Lots of good info here! =)

[baggi97]

I have the exact same problem - I hvae found out that the internet isn't down, but it seems that other clients loses the ability to get DNS replies, because I can still use messenger but not get new websites. I can also ping servers with their IP address.

[necod]

I have found a solution.
To limit download and upload bandwidth using router Bandwidth Control


By example, my router is TPLINK TL-WR1043ND, i have added a new rule for my nas (192.168.1.5)

Bandwidth Control Rules List
ID Description Egress Bandwidth(Kbps) Ingress Bandwidth(Kbps)
Min Max Min Max
1 192.168.1.5 0 800 0 6000

[trippledence]

I've been suffering from this issue as well, and would be interested to know if others who have found it an issue have a large amount of seeding torrents.

When I first started using the Download Station I didn't have the issue but as I like to leave my torrents seeding almost permanently, over time it has developed. I used to have the same problem when I torrent using a computer but uTorrents rules in regards to maximum simultaneous connections seemed to be able to mitigate the issues.

I'm not sure this is the case with the Dstation, it's almost as if the requests to the tracker is hammering my connection. Unfortunately my internet connection is through a EchoLife HG520b, which seems pretty crummy.

The max bandwidth of download tasks is limited to below the connection speed, and seen as the router itself becomes un-ping able I think the problem is bigger than that.

Any info would be most helpful.

[mayank]

Hi,

Used to face similar issues... but am much happier now.

For me this seemed to be less of an issue with the NAS - even a computer doing a similar job would make the internet connection behave erratically... or freeze/hang. The problem usually is with the router - most cheap routers which perform extremely well in home environments (not subjected to torrrents!) exhibit this kind of behavior. It seems the number of connections totally saturate their internal RAM and they choke up in sometime. The day I shifted to a slighted better spec office-grade router this issue has disappeared - no more router hangups and freeze and months go without a router reboot. As far as bandwidth is concerned you need to be able to define the QoS in the router and that should resolve bandwidth hogging by the NAS.

Hope this helps...

cheers.