[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections

[John Wheeler]

My WRT54G with stock firmware would get bogged when under heavy loads  
of specific types of traffic. Mostly torrents with small piece sizes.  
Apparently is wasn't releasing resources quickly enough and some  
buffer would get full. There was no option to help negate this. Often  
the trouble wouldn't bring the device down but just cause it to  
draaaaag until I rebooted it manually.

I have had great success with an alternative firmware on multiple  
WRT54G's (v3 & v4) as well as other Broadcom based routers.

DD-WRT:
http://dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/ddwrt.php

If you have time to play a little it's great. Opens up  plenty of  
interesting possibilities.

-John

On Apr 15, 2007, at 11:19 PM, Christopher L Merrill wrote:

> The firmware version is 1.01.0.  It is unmodified by me.
>
> Twice in the past 2-3 weeks, computers on the wired connections have
> become severely network "disadvantaged".  They don't seem to looks the
> connection entirely...but are horrendously slow.  Like 300 baud slow.
>
> Both times, the wireless operation was fine.  Two different computers
> using different cables to different ports were affected.
> In both instances, rebooting the unit brought instantaneous relief.
>
> Anyone seen this?  My google-fu is bringing me no joy  :(
>
> TIA,
> C
>
>
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