Wednesday, May 23, 2018

14.04 - BitTorrent programs killing networking - Broadcom wireless

This started happening after I did a fresh install of 14.04 (previously I was on 13.04). When ever I launch a BitTorrent client my DNS very quickly stops responding, and then the network connection itself stops working completely (to the point of disconnecting and failing to see the network again).



It works just fine on my wired connection, but with wireless (which is a Broadcom; I followed the steps here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2218898 to get it working) then it craps out.



Edit: I have verified that I have the correct drivers installed. My output is



09:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5755M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1673] (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN [14e4:4311] (rev 01)



and I have linux-firmware-nonfree installed.

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