Home Network Drops

[jdwright]

I have a wgr614 v7 router. When I connect my computer to the internet directly, I have no problems. When I run the connection through the router, which has been set up using the default wizard, I start to get connection drops. Oddly, sometimes when I'm using BT, I still get activity for seeds and dls, but I can't access internet through my browser or check email. My other computer is a recently fresh install and has the same problem. I can remedy the problem with a simple restart of my computer.

I have tried tcpoptimizer, several setting changes on the router, and a *different* router with same results. I'm really at my wits end with this, since I've just suffered with it for almost a year.

On a lighter note, when I called tech support for suggestions, a troubleshooter informed me that it was probably that I had the 3 mbps connection and it was being split between the two computers. An upgrade to 5 mbps would almost certainly fix the problem...LOL.

So, I'm appealing to the smartest bunch of people I know...

Any help would be appreciated!!! And TIA!!!!

J

 

[JackMDS]

It might be a time for a new Router.

 

[jdwright]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
It might be a time for a new Router.

That is exactly what I thought. So, since I was using a d-link di-524, I went out and bought another brand that I had installed without issue for a friend. The Netgear wgr614. It just seems coincidental to me that I would be experiencing the exact same problem with a 2 week old router (if that were the problem).

I guess what I'm hoping for is someone to shed some light on why a restart of my computer resolves the issue. No reboot of the modem or router is necessary. My thought was that it was something to do with the DHCP and how ips were assigned by the router (time limit, volatility), but since its happening again with a new router I feel like I need to look elsewhere for the source of the problem.

Is this line of thinking reasonable?

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

J

 

[acaeti]

Honestly I think the problem may be that you are overloading your router with BT traffic. Newish routers have so little memory that if you open a couple hundred TCP/IP connections (not hard with BT and games and whatnot all running concurrently), it overloads the router's ability to keep track of NAT and boom, no new connections can be opened (ie the internet seems to be dead), but previous connections are still ok (e.g. your bittorrent that still sends/receives traffic). Now restarting your PC would clear out all those connections nicely when you shutdown BT and the rest, and the Internet gets back in operation for a while.

I would suggest examining the max connections [global] settings in your BT client. If you tell us your BT client we can help you set those (or just do a little googling, that info is all over). Or alternately you could get a router like a Buffalo you can run DD-WRT on and fiddle the TCP/IP settings. Setting BT right is cheaper and faster of course .

 

[jdwright]

I think that's the best explanation that I've heard so far. When I'm using BT really heavy, I find that browsing/checking email is really slow if at all functional.

Here's the thing though - I'm a really light user of BT (though I will be looking into the max connections thing) and I would say that most days I don't use it at all. Yet I still get the connection drops. Even on the second computer that is *rarely* used and recently had a fresh install of xp. Of course, the second computer is only used when the first is busy - so it could be the victim of what's already happened with the other.

My client for BT is utorrent. If you have suggestions for settings, that would be appreciated =). I'll also do some googling to see what I can find.

Any other suggestions about what could be causing the drops?

Thanks all for the feedback!!

J