[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections

[David Brain]

Hi,

That could be significant information - is it possible that you (or
your neighbors...) have installed wireless networks  or something else
that may cause interference.

I've twice had to change the channel on my box (wrtg54l - openwrt),
once when a neighbor fired up a network on the same channel as me, and
once when I bought wireless phones (in retrospect, buying 2.4Ghz
phones might not have been the best idea..).

Both cases caused symptoms similar to what you were describing, only
worse with the phone, where I'd loose the link entirely sometimes
while using the phone(!).

David.


On 4/17/07, Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
> Thanks for all the replies.  I forgot to mention that I've been
> running this box for about 6 months.  Everything was fine until
> the past few weeks.  I'm not sure if maybe my usage pattern has
> changed - resulting in more connections.  I doubt it, though.
>
> I'll look for the max ports setting and increase it.  If that
> doesn't remedy the problem, then I guess I'll have to decide of the
> hassle of resetting it every few weeks is worse than the time
> required for the firmware upgrade and resulting configuration
> changes....
>
>
> Thanks!
> C
>
> OlsonE at aosa.army.mil wrote:
> > ...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  :(
> >>
>
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