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Title: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: jimbobway on July 18, 2011, 01:18:03 AM 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. ??? Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: MiningBuddy on July 18, 2011, 01:24:48 AM 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. Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: wumpus on July 18, 2011, 02:45:48 AM 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.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: JoelKatz on July 18, 2011, 03:12:22 AM Crank your maximum connection count way down. Pass a '-maxconnections=8' on the command line.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: TeraPool on July 18, 2011, 03:46:49 AM Or simply don't bother with port forwarding!
Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: gmaxwell on July 18, 2011, 04:50:44 AM Crank your maximum connection count way down. Pass a '-maxconnections=8' on the command line. -nolisten would be the best way to do this. Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: JoelKatz on July 18, 2011, 05:26:14 PM Crank your maximum connection count way down. Pass a '-maxconnections=8' on the command line. -nolisten would be the best way to do this. Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: lemonginger on July 18, 2011, 09:20:41 PM I believe this is the reason for bitcoin often pinwheeling on OS X as well
Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: Mike Hearn on July 18, 2011, 09:39:49 PM 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.
Title: Re: Bitcoin Crashes My Wireless Post by: jimbobway on August 03, 2011, 02:54:25 PM 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.
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