Bit torrent crashes airport extreme

Hi, I am currently on my 3rd airport extreme, but the first one was just sold and replaced to upgrade to gigabit. However the second is because Apple sent me a new one. The reason for this is it was continuously crashing and we couldn't figure out why. When I got the new one it didn't take long for it to start crashing too, which is what made me consider everything that was common between the two airports that could cause both to crash and I think I have found it. Its bit torrent. The airport will work perfectly all day long, but if I launch Azureus and start downloading, and I'm only connecting to maybe 4 peers at a time and at about 30kb/sec, the airport will crash within 40 minuets with almost 100 percent certainty. I am curious as to how many people may be able to narrow down their airport crashes to the running of bit torrent.

I've been struggling (understatement) with this for about 2 weeks now.
I began back up running a few torrents - very low key, pissy stuff. The internet has been going down as much as 6 times a day. But it's not the AEBS - My modem shuts down as well cuz we tried a computer hardwired to it. Both modem & router needed rebooting. Modem pings fine from the ISP and all modem lights appear fine despite no internet when directly wired to modem. I have Comcast. (sadly)
So seriously... this fix is working for everyone?
But fine... why would this all affect the modem itself? Comcasts insists they aren't throttling/shutting me down. Yet, today I've been plugged into the modem directly and the internet blowouts have stopped. Almost like the Extreme was telling the Modem to shut me down.
Can someone explain how this fix works and the mechanisms as to why it would fix this? I really need to understand this. It's been my full time job for 2 weeks now.

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I am just wondering if it's possible to only allow one computer to access Bit Torrent or Limewire connections and leaving out my son for accessing the same things?
Sorry, but no as the AirPorts do not offer a feature to block P2P communications. It only has the ability to restrict a computer from accessing the Internet at all. Also, most routers that do offer this feature will completely block out the P2P service for all computers ... not just a particular one.

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i've had similar set up before with a G5 and never had an issue, but that was on ethernet, my new setup is through wifi. I've read that there was an issue when transferring large files from computer to airdisk over wifi, but i didn't see the issue in finder, this only happens in itunes.
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I have found the Gen5 AE to be very reliable.
I would have blamed a dud unit.. except that you have had two of them.. So I would be tracing where the problem is apart from the AE.
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(and upgraded with a more capable Orinoco card—if you know what I'm talking about, you know that's old!
Know exactly what you are talking about.. Orinoco were most desired for their use with wifi scanners.
How is your power?? Apple stuff does seem to use stuff that is highly susceptible to spiking. I keep my network stuff on UPS. (or battery direct feed).
I also do not like 7.6.4 firmware.. I know others here might find it ok but I can clearly demonstrate worse performance with it. Direct A-B testing.
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Hello there,
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the netgear WPN824 supports UPNP so you don't need to do antying to your bittorrent client other than tell it automatically map ports. This is not my preference however. I prefer configure my mac to have a static ip and specify a port forwarding rule for any servers running on it.
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login admin
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Product Name and Number: HP Deskjet 3550 Inkjet Printer
Operating System installed: Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bits
Error message: None
Any changes made to your system before the issue occurred: Setting up HP printer using Airport Utility to add a new printer and installed Bonjour Print Wizard.
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Suggestion #1: Are the print jobs getting stuck in the print queue? You can check this by clicking on the printer icon in your task tray by the clock.
Error Message #1: Yes, the print job got stuck in the print queue, but the moment, it disappeared from the print queue and the printer doesn't print at all. This is frustrating.
Suggestion #2: Does the printer work as expected if you connect it directly to the PC via USB?
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Suggestion #3: This has to do with the way the router handles the connection to the printer. I found another thread, regarding this issue, and it has some information that may help resolve it.
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Printer-Networking-and-Wireless/Print-Problem-Using -USB-Printer-on-Airp...
If that does not help, I would recommend posting on the Apple forums, as they may have more expertise with the router's abilities:
https://discussions.apple.com/community/wireless/airport
Error Message #3: After clicking on the first link that you posted, it was very helpful, but the printer couldn't print completely and somehow it would stop at the quarter of a paper. It looks incomplete when I took it out from my printer. It does that every time.

UPDATE!
Problem solved! So this is just a followup in case someone else ever stumbles into these boards with the same or similar problems as mine, that is, trying to run an HP Deskjet D1500 series printer [mine's a D1520] on an Airport Extreme wifi router's USB port as a network printer [with the Airport Extreme controlled by an ancient G4 PowerMac Quicksilver currently running OS X 10.4.11).
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I hope this message in a bottle may help someone else out there some day soon who may be scratching his or her head with a similar stumper. And just to recap those important Windows printer settings, they are:
* [Printer Properties--> Ports--> Add New Port...] "Standard TCP/IP Port"
* [Configure Port] IP Address "10.0.1.1" and Port "9100"
Best of luck!
Bilgey

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I have the same exact problem as you! I have been asking everyone on this forum for help about this, but nobody ever responds with an answer. I tried resetting my modem and router, and that seemed to help, but after copying files to different hard drives, I still get an error... after I check to see if anything copied, it actually worked! It never shows me the copy animation, all I get is an hourglass. When I try copying wirelessly to the same drive using my Macbook Pro, it works like a champ! I thought maybe the Airport Extreme doesn't work well with XP, but others say they have no problems. Should I reformat a partition of my hard drive to something that works better with the Airport Extreme?

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