Bit torrents killing my internet?

[MetalMilitia]

How are you connecting to the net? Because BitTorrent doesn't always play nicely with Linksys wireless routers.

They keep a record of connected IP addresses (for some reason) so if you're connecting to a lot of seeds and/or peers it can often cause your router to crash and your connection to drop.

You could also try switching to uTorrent (or a few other clients which support it) and enabling protocol encryption. Some ISPs cap your bandwidth if they detect you're sending/recieving a lot of P2P traffic. I doubt they would intentionally drop your connection but it's worth looking at.