Major speed/router issues

[Lucifus]

Eh, if you have one of those old routers, if you have a wide range of ports open, the routers will act gay like that. Don't know how, don't know why, it just does. If you do, close the ports and open open the needed.

Edit: Just checked the rest of your post. And I have the exact same router, even down to the firmware. Up to a week ago I had the same problem, I didn't have it before. Once I start torrents, I cant do anything else except let uTorrent run. It got decent speeds but nothing else, no internet/can't access router etc etc.

I also had to reset my router after I finished downloading to kickstart my internet again. The only different I could think of about 2 months ago when my uTorrent and router weren't gay till up to 2 weeks ago when its all gay is that I had opened "alot" of ports for Command And Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars. Once I closed em, everything was normal again.

[master_me]

Check to see if anyone else is hooked up to it outside your household; if so, just make the router password protected and tell your neighbors to stop stealing your internet.

Otherwise, definitely go with what DF said.

[Deadfire]

To add another suggestion in the mix is update your fireware. so in order now

1. Make sure someone isn't stealing your wireless,
2. Update your firmware thats in your router,
3. If that still doesn't solve it phone up linksys and say what they have you do.
4. Get a new one if they jerk you around or they don't know

[Assassin]

no ones stealing my intarweb, its password protected. i've updated my firmware, but for some reason it wont update completely. it changed from v 1.00.09 to 1.02.00. but tahts not the latest update i think, cuz that update is jan 2007 and the latest is march 2007. the update file im using is the latest one, but after i update it, its doesn't give me the latest update. its kind of gay. also the update file from linksys is a .bin file, but it wont open with ultraISO. it says its an unknown image or file type.

[Board of Command]

You don't "open" the BIN file you get from Linksys. That's the firmware. You load it up in the router settings and flash with it.

Just because it's a BIN doesn't mean it's a disk image. The BIN extension is used for a lot of firmwares and BIOSs.

[Assassin]

well i did load it up, but it doesn't update to the latest release, only to the jan 2007 release