Rule63MePlease wrote: Thu Apr 06, 2017 6:51 pm
Any time I try to download something with uTorrent it kills my USB ports and internet connection after about 3-5 mins of downloading. 
Sounds to me like you are getting a problem from some sort of FLOW CONTROL. (If you already know the following, well, sorry to be patronizing, hope it's not offensive. But it's worthwhile to write some of it down, just so other people might benefit from it.)
Generally, your ISP is not allowed to throttle your connection (a.k.a., reduce total incoming bandwidth, or, to put it differently, sometimes decide on their own to give you less data than your paid contract with them allows you to ask for). They're supposed to fulfill your (computer's) data requests as fulsomely as your contract. So, if you bought umpteen gazillion megawatt hours of data, and they only give you half an umpteen gazillion, then they are throttling and they shouldn't be doing that.
But one thing they CAN do, is reduce the TOTAL NUMBER OF OPEN PORTS that they allow. This is a pretense on their part -- they will CLAIM that they are "protecting" you and themselves from potential denial-of-service attacks, which generally arrive in the form of a large number of incoming-outgoing requests across a large number of ports. But in fact, most ISPs know that YOU personally are highly unlikely to be the target of a denial-of-service attack -- what, your piddling little one laptop in the kitchen is as important to a Rumanian hacker as is the national database of social security numbers run by Big Bank Baron on fifty-eight gazillion servers in New York? no. So what the ISPs are doing, is screwing you, deliberately figuring out a crass way of reducing your incoming data, while not technically breaking the rule that they shouldn't throttle. They just close you off, instead, and pretend it was because they suspected something was going wrong.
The way to try to beat this is, generally, to take matters into your own hands. First, google everything you can about how best to configure your torrent client. There are better ports to choose; settings about bandwidth, queues, total number of open ports, total number of port requests, etc. etc., all of which can be tweaked. Second, check with your ROUTER or home modem (probably your ISP provided you with a modem, probably the modem and the router are connected inside the same box, maybe you are using your own router downstream of the ISP's modem) and see if that thing has a flow-control setting, or another type of lock-out that will prevent torrenting.
Generally, you're describing something that everyone experiences when he starts torrenting. Somewhere in the first few episodes of getting great connections, suddenly everything goes down. My experience was, that I'd get a few minutes of ultra-excellent incoming data, then everything would slow gradually to a total crawl; then, after it sat at literally 1 Kb / minute for one minute, it would re-start itself, climb majestically and rapidly up to a super-high rate of incoming data again, then cross some threshold and start to slow down annoyingly all over. It would continually repeat the cycle. When I figured out to mess with total NUMBER of open ports, rather than total AMOUNT of incoming data, I was able to experiment until I made the problem go away. (This became a hassle when trying to download certain games, IIRC Warthunder, in which the quasi-torrent oriented downloader program doesn't actually have a setting to allow little ol' end-users like me to change total NUMBER of ports, only total AMOUNT of incoming data, thus, I couldn't fix the problem for the Warthunder downloader.)
Hope this maybe helps. Or maybe not. But, do be reassured, that torrenting is not utterly fool-proof. You are going through rather typical learning stages of beginner torrent downloads, I think, and you'll be able to fix it up somehow. Google will have a lot of good answers; there are tons of people out there dealing with the same annoyances.
I would offer more specifics, about how to actually re-set the settings in question, but I don't know enough about (a) the theory or (b) your computer and home internet set-ups, so I think it's more productive if you just get started on the troubleshooting on your own. After a while, let us know if you still can't get it to work.
Best luck! :)
