Well I originally posted this as a reply to a thread about Linksys vs Dlink router but decided that perhaps more enlightened AT members can help me out with this problem.
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I bought a WRT54G to replace my Dlink 614+ so I could get wireless-g + use the hacked firmware available for the Linksys. Well, everything installed fine, flashed to wifibox firmware, and everything was humming along fine. an hour later, internnet connectivity is down. Scratching my head, figure maybe it was the firmware? But anyway, reboot of router, internet connectivity back up. An hour later, same story. I spent about a day trying to figure it out, went to sveasoft firmware, then went back to stock firmware, same thing. After a couple of days of testing I narrowed it down to bit torrent traffic. I use Azureus, and tried the slow connection method, tried limiting global connections, and that worked (but i have to limit to something ridiculous like 10-20 or it will still bring everything down). So basically now what I'm doing is putting the Dlink in front, and I have the Linksys connected to the Dlink to provide the wireless services. All the hackable features are pretty much useless since it is no longer my main router. The D-link has been working fine ever since, no more network issues.
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At first I thought it was an SP2 problem with the TCP connection limiting issue that I've read about, but that didn't turn out to be the problem. The Dlink has no problems whatsoever in the same conditions. It seems like the router is getting flooded somehow. Perhaps I just have a bad router, I don't know. Kind of weird though that if it was a router problem it would only manifest itself when it's bit torrent, that seems more of a software bug to me anyway. I've connected to mirrors to download linux ISO images (I usually max out my speed, and the files are large enough that the transfers are sustained for hours at a time). and I don't have any problems with surfing the net (it will be slow, but everythign won't go down and the FTP session continues to go).
I've tried the latest sveasoft from linksysinfo. tried wifibox, and also went back to stock. I can't figure out for the life of me what needs to be changed to allow torrents to work properly through the router. Other than the 54g connectivity I would've also loved to have all the features that the custom firmware provides (ssh, qos through packet shaping, bandwidth management, and all the other nifty things that I don't know what it does but I'm sure it could be handy 🙂 )
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I bought a WRT54G to replace my Dlink 614+ so I could get wireless-g + use the hacked firmware available for the Linksys. Well, everything installed fine, flashed to wifibox firmware, and everything was humming along fine. an hour later, internnet connectivity is down. Scratching my head, figure maybe it was the firmware? But anyway, reboot of router, internet connectivity back up. An hour later, same story. I spent about a day trying to figure it out, went to sveasoft firmware, then went back to stock firmware, same thing. After a couple of days of testing I narrowed it down to bit torrent traffic. I use Azureus, and tried the slow connection method, tried limiting global connections, and that worked (but i have to limit to something ridiculous like 10-20 or it will still bring everything down). So basically now what I'm doing is putting the Dlink in front, and I have the Linksys connected to the Dlink to provide the wireless services. All the hackable features are pretty much useless since it is no longer my main router. The D-link has been working fine ever since, no more network issues.
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At first I thought it was an SP2 problem with the TCP connection limiting issue that I've read about, but that didn't turn out to be the problem. The Dlink has no problems whatsoever in the same conditions. It seems like the router is getting flooded somehow. Perhaps I just have a bad router, I don't know. Kind of weird though that if it was a router problem it would only manifest itself when it's bit torrent, that seems more of a software bug to me anyway. I've connected to mirrors to download linux ISO images (I usually max out my speed, and the files are large enough that the transfers are sustained for hours at a time). and I don't have any problems with surfing the net (it will be slow, but everythign won't go down and the FTP session continues to go).
I've tried the latest sveasoft from linksysinfo. tried wifibox, and also went back to stock. I can't figure out for the life of me what needs to be changed to allow torrents to work properly through the router. Other than the 54g connectivity I would've also loved to have all the features that the custom firmware provides (ssh, qos through packet shaping, bandwidth management, and all the other nifty things that I don't know what it does but I'm sure it could be handy 🙂 )
