[TriLUG] OT: WRT54G loosing wired connections

[Kevin Flanagan]

I too run openwrt on one of my WRT54G devices, and stock firmware on my
WRT54GSV5, both run fine.



On 4/16/07, Greg Brown <gwbrown1 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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