does bittorrent harm router?

[Nikolai]

Hello, ive gone through heaps of routers over the year and am wondering is constant 24/7 bittorrent traffic at maximum internet speed possible bad for them, with up to like 800 to 900 connections to peers all the time. cause right now my current router has lasted 1 year and a half and now internet speeds are really slow on it, ping is high and torrents download really slow on it. So is bittorrent really slowly destroying routers and modems.
Thanks

 

[karen]

Bit torrent cannot harm your router there might be some other issue check out the lines and cable of the network system.