[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections

[Greg Brown]

Same with all my WRT54G units: no love from the stock firmware.  I run
OpenWRT almost exclusively and have no problems with the units.


On 4/16/07, OlsonE at aosa.army.mil <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  :(
> >
> > TIA,
> > C
> >
> >
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