Hey.

First I want to say that I have tried to get help with this on the official LotrO forums and on the offical uTorrent forums but people doesnt care enough to try and help me with my problem.

LotrO = Lord of the Rings ONLINE, the MMO game.
uTorrent = The popular Bitorrent application.

Ok. I have used uTorrent for years, love it, and I have played LotrO for a while now, about two weeks in-game played TIME. I have been struggling with disconnects from the server, it has been fairly random at times. Sometimes I can play for 5 hours without any disconnects, other times 1 minute is all I can play before I get disconnected. Recently I found out that the disconnects are caused by having uTorrent run in the background. I have been testing it for some days now and I am 100% sure uTorrent makes me disconnect from the LotrO server.

My internet is never down, I am only loosing connection to the LotrO server. If I start LotrO first, then start uTorrent I get instantly disconnected. If I start uTorrent first its fairly random when I get disconnected from LotrO, but most likely its within the first 5 minutes, its very rare that I can play for a long time.

Now, you might ask me why I want to have uTorrent running while playing. This is easily because I want to seed 24/7, and this shouldnt be a problem as I have ALWAYS been doing that and I have played a lot of other games at the same time before I started to play LotrO. These games include World of Warcraft, Counter-Strike, Star Trek Online, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and a lot more games and I never had any problems playing any of these games while running uTorrent.

You might think it's my internet connection/bandwidth that gets overloaded or SOMETHING making my connection to the LotrO server unstable, wrong. Having zero active torrents, and I am still disconnected. On the uTorrent forum, the one person who has replied to the thread jumped to the conclusion that my router was to blame. He was sure that it was overloaded and this caused me to disconnect. Of course, this is only to divert the blame away from uTorrent. How can my router overload without having any active torrents? Downloading/Uploading with 0kb/sec doesnt maky my router overload. I have downloaded with 3.5MB/sec and uploaded with 3.5MB/sec at the same time, and at the same time been playing games with superb latency/ping. My 30Mbit Fiber connection is rock steady, and the ISP router is not garbage like many other ISP's routers. And if my router overloaded, my internet connection would drop, not only my LotrO connection.. and this doesnt happen.

Also, I have forwarded the one port that uTorrent use, and the 3 ports that LotrO uses. So everything should be in order.. I just cant understand why I keep disconnecting while running uTorrent in the background.. something in uTorrent must be blocking the packages sent to/from me/LotrO server. That is the only thing I can think of.. but if this is true, how do I fix this? But.. also.. if that is what's causing me to disconnect, am I the only one with this problem? If not, why has noone else posted about this on the internet? I can't find any posts on this issue. Maybe I am the only one who's found out that uTorrent is causing disconnects.. anyways.. please help me anyone!

SPECS:

Intel Core2 Quad 3GHz Q9650
GeForce GTX 295
6GB Ram
Windows 7 64bit