[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections

[OlsonE at aosa.army.mil]

...same issues with my WRT54GS v2. I ended up switching to DD-WRT v24-r2
(whatever the latest non-beta is) ....and it works great! 

I definitely recommend setting the max number of ports open to something
higher than the default. 

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On
Behalf Of John Wheeler
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2007 5:43 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections

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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