[TriLUG] linksys WRT54g v.5

[Cristobal Palmer]

I had a WRT54GL (essentially a v.4) that is absolutely wonderful. I
have had no such trouble with it. It didn't chew my packets. :) It
found its way to my parents' house last Christmas and hums along with
both bittorrent (limited to 20kbps up) and voip going at the same
time.

So no, that has not been a problem on all WRTs.

There are others who do more voip than I... they too like WRT54GLs.
Let them speak up and object if I'm wrong.

-CMP

On 8/5/06, Joseph E. ODoherty <joey at odoherty.net> wrote:
> Is this an issue specific to the v5 model-- or do all wrts have trouble
> with throughput (bittorrent, voip, etc) ?
>
> /joeyo
>
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 09:00:23PM -0400, Jason Tower wrote:
> > they definitely can't handle large amounts of throughput.  i had a v5
> > sitting in front of a server at my colo (i needed a quick fix), and it
> > would reset tcp connections when the traffic spiked above a certain level.
> > but for home use where you'll probably never see anything above 6mb/s it's
> > probably fine.
> >
> > incidently i replaced the v5 with a linux firewall running on a k6-300, it
> > handles the high traffic bursts just fine.  someone theorized that it was
> > the lack of buffers on the wrt ethernet interfaces that makes them conk out
> > under load.
> >
> > jason
> >
> > Cristobal Palmer wrote:
> > >Two-part question:
> > >
> > >I've heard that the v.5 WRTs have a nasty habit of resetting if you're
> > >doing something like voip. I'm wondering (1) if this happens with just
> > >normal home use. I'm looking here for responses from people with
> > >direct experience with v.5 WRTs.
> > >
> > >(2) For putting Linux (dd-wrt) on a v.5, any gotchas or caveats? Is
> > >this a good walkthrough:
> > >http://www.bitsum.com/openwiking/owbase/ow.asp?WRT54G5%5FCFE#h6 ?
> > >
> > >TIA,
> > >CMP
> > >
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Cristobal M. Palmer
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TriLUG Vice Chair
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