Deluge/torrent clients seem to kill my network

[Jethro_UK]

Hi all

I run 3 PCs at home, on a nice little network. 2 wireless, 1 wired. I have one PC in the loft (attic) running 24/7, which I use as a torrent/download server. I tend to use Deluge as the client.

I've noticed in the past month or so, that even when deluge is not doing anything, that the performance of the other machines to the internet grinds to a halt. I've proved it by quitting deluge and seeing webpages jump up in browsers.

I'm at a loss as to why this should happen. I've throttled Deluge using the scheduler, but this doesn't appear to be bandwidth related ....

Anyone know what settings I need to look at ?

It also seems to happen with Vuze too, so maybe it's a torrent protocol thing ?

Thanks guys

[zenone]

Maybe maximum number of connections?

[johnnyg]

I would say its your bandwidth settings, http://dev.deluge-torrent.org/wiki/Faq# ... shouldIuse