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If your router is the one that your ISP provided, torrenting can affect your internet connection stability by having too many connections active, because most of the time that hardware is trash (at least from my experience).
Most (all?) torrent clients support limiting the number of active connections. This should prevent your router from being overloaded.
In my experience 500 shouldn't be a problem. On that note, limiting upload bandwidth to something less than the available upload bandwidth is important too.
250 active connections is the limit with my ISP provided router. You can get beyond that, but it causes a lot of instability, and eventually, the network fails and the router reboots.
On another note, I don't limit my bandwidth at all and I've managed to get uploads/downloads of up to 142% the speed which I should get.
250 connections really is not much. I ran a matrix server for a while and joining a few large rooms (1k+ servers) made the connections reach a few thousand – which made the router slow down/unstable/reboot.
I've noticed the same for my upload bandwitdh, with it being 170%-200% of its advertised maximum speed. Sadly the same can't be said about the download bandwidth. Luckily fiber will be available in a few months.