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Topic: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless (Read 1172 times)

legendary
Activity: 1304
Merit: 1015
August 03, 2011, 09:54:25 AM
#10
I put it on -nolisten and the bitcoin client works.  However, I think this will be problem for many users and if I have this issue then many more others may not be able to get their bitcoin client running.  I checked my router logs but I don't know enough to debug it.   I hope this issue is fixed.
legendary
Activity: 1526
Merit: 1134
July 18, 2011, 04:39:49 PM
#9
If this happens with a regular wifi router, check the logs on the device. It may be triggering its firewall, some routers have a dumb feature that will cause your entire connection to drop if too many unACKd SYNs are pending.
full member
Activity: 210
Merit: 100
firstbits: 121vnq
July 18, 2011, 04:20:41 PM
#8
I believe this is the reason for bitcoin often pinwheeling on OS X as well
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1012
Democracy is vulnerable to a 51% attack.
July 18, 2011, 12:26:14 PM
#7
Crank your maximum connection count way down. Pass a '-maxconnections=8' on the command line.

-nolisten would be the best way to do this.
Yeah. That's even better.
staff
Activity: 4284
Merit: 8808
July 17, 2011, 11:50:44 PM
#6
Crank your maximum connection count way down. Pass a '-maxconnections=8' on the command line.

-nolisten would be the best way to do this.
newbie
Activity: 42
Merit: 0
July 17, 2011, 10:46:49 PM
#5
Or simply don't bother with port forwarding!
legendary
Activity: 1596
Merit: 1012
Democracy is vulnerable to a 51% attack.
July 17, 2011, 10:12:22 PM
#4
Crank your maximum connection count way down. Pass a '-maxconnections=8' on the command line.
hero member
Activity: 812
Merit: 1022
No Maps for These Territories
July 17, 2011, 09:45:48 PM
#3
Do you have the latest drivers installed for it? I've had problems like this in the past especially on laptops, but those were usually resolved by upgrading.
hero member
Activity: 927
Merit: 1000
฿itcoin ฿itcoin ฿itcoin
July 17, 2011, 08:24:48 PM
#2
I get the same and I'm pretty sure its down to the huge amount of connections bitcoin uses.

To fix it simple run bitcoin with -maxconnections=15 or how ever many connections you feel your wireless can handle.
legendary
Activity: 1304
Merit: 1015
July 17, 2011, 08:18:03 PM
#1
Every time I run bitcoin, my wireless connection crashes.  I have a USB wireless key fob.  What I have found is that I have to pull it out and stick it back in to reset it, and my wireless comes back on.  All other internet connections work when I don't run bitcoin.  When I play StarCraft online it works.  When I surf the net or run mining software (poclbm's version) my wireless connection works.

However, when I start up the bitcoin client after a few minutes the wireless connection fails.  Weird.  I am wondering if it has to do with all of those connections. Huh
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