DLink DIR-655 lag issues, possible replacement?

[Dulanic]

OK... so here is my situation. I have been through routers quite often and I am going crazy! I had a buffalo router /w dd-wrt that worked fantastic that I gave to a family member and replaced /w the Linksys WRT54GL. This worked great but the problem is it was g so I had to replace it as I need more bandwidth.

I researched some and the DLink DIR-655 seemed like it would work well. Well, it has major issues /w high network traffic and I have 30mbps internet + a hdhomerun prime. This is a good amount of traffic when I logged into my work VPN + the wife is watching Netflix/Hulu or downloading something + we have up to 3 tuners streaming to a PC at 20mbps per stream /w the hdhomerun. The router just becomes "overloaded" and very sluggish. Ping times go through the roof and even the web login to control it won't respond.

Is it me or are there no great wireless n routers? Like the WRT54GL was for g. Is there anything that can even be done to the DIR-655 to make it work better?

I have been tempted by this one... I know it has a few bad reviews but not sure as we all know it could be bad setups or bad firmware version maybe? Uggg I dunno, I will spend the extra money if it will just... WORK.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833122434

 

[ViviTheMage]

I am surprised you have such an issue with your DIR 655.

I have the same router, 4 tuner card, usually only pushing 2 streams to extenders, constant traffic from server to desktop, and lots of traffic to 3 other access points in the building.

The thing never skips a beat.

I also have a wireless N connection for my laptop and phone, and it is generally doing 3-4MB/s.

Now, if you're doing ALL of that 20mbps traffic, and downloading on wireless N, yes, it will bog down, and slow up.

The LAN should not.

 

[Dulanic]

It mostly seems VPN causes it to lag. DLink had me change a few settings which... helped but only so much. Think they had me disable QoS mostly, but I think there was something else too.

It was really weird it was only if I used VPN over wifi, if it was ethernet it worked fine. For a while as soon as I would login to my VPN after about 5 minutes the router would just crash.

Either way, they got it better, but it still lags like crazy if I am using HDHomerun /w VPN & other things. I do this quite commonly as I work from home quite often so I keep hdhomerun running on one monitor and am logged into vpn /w my laptop on the other monitor. I am watching hdhomerun over lan too....

Maybe I can link up /w the linksys g for the work laptop & printers etc... that don't need the bandwith....

 

[ViviTheMage]

You are VPNing from behind the router?

I do this pretty frequently as well, mostly IPSEC, wifi and LAN, and my network is solid.

I assume you've flashed to the latest firmware?

I do wish you could see CPU/memory consumption on these routers.

Maybe try turning of SPI firewall? See if that brings it down?

 

[imagoon]

There was a batch of those that had wireless issues, I think it was hardware rev A4?

 

[Dulanic]

I have the B1 revision. Since I have DD-WRT on the linksys I am going to try using the linksys as a G wireless network and the DLink as a N network and I can set the Linksys to DHCP foward to the DLink. Also, I will run the LAN network for the HDHomerun through the Linksys since I trust it to handle the higher bandwith more than the DLink.

I will see if that enhances the speed. I will put the HDHomerun on the linksys and use it primarily for LAN + the 2 or so G devices I have. Maybe I can avoid a new router all together... time to change the thread title.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Well, the question is still there, is the issue wifi, or on LAN ,or equally?

if it is indeed only on wireless, you may just need to replace your router.

 

[Dulanic]

Well, the question is still there, is the issue wifi, or on LAN ,or equally?

if it is indeed only on wireless, you may just need to replace your router.

That's what I hope to find out. But it does seem to be traffic related mostly to the HDHomerun and VPN and in which case if I offload all of that LAN traffic to the Linksys, that should help. Plus I can offload the VPN traffic to the Linksys too since I don't need anything above G since it is slow as hell anyways.

 

[ViviTheMage]

Yeah, try replicating the issues on wireless, without any LAN traffic at all.

If it still has a problem, hook up to the LAN, and see if the problem persists.

 

[Dulanic]

So far offloading the ethernet traffic seems to have worked fine. No issues at all and my ping times actually went down on the hardwired PC's even going through an extra router. I think the Dlink just was getting overloaded.