what in hell, D-Link DGL-4300 GamerLounge router keeps rebooting

[EKKC]

this morning i power cycled both the cable modem and the router, but since then my router reboots every 5 seconds before my computers can register an IP (since the router does DHCP)

i've had this router for a while so its probably out of warranty (i will check) its annoying as fvck.

anybody have a similar problem?

 

[Madwand1]

Not here; been rock-stable. Try cooling it externally / keeping it vertical? (Don't open it up if your warranty might still be valid.) US D-Link email/web support hasn't been bad for me. Write to them in any case to get some advice.

 

[EKKC]

do you know off hand how long is their warranty?
i bought mine near end of 2004... when it first came out i think.

i do leave it in the open, away from the rigs and do keep it vertical, it's been pretty bad lately, my XBOX-XBMC through wireless bridge used to stream videos from my gigabit Dell XPS400 pretty decently, lately its been impossible and i haven't tweaked a thing. in fact, streaming from my 100mbps NAS is okay while streaming anything from a device connected to the gigabit speed is stupid-slow. it's been frustrating. and i know it's not my computer because it talks 1000mbps with other gigabit devices...

 

[Madwand1]

Looks like a standard 1-year warranty. Try tech support -- if any, they'll certainly have experience with such problems with this device.

http://games.dlink.com/products/?pid=370&#DGL-4300

 

[EKKC]

i left it on reooting itself while i went to work yesterday, then i went home last night and its fine. weird
and tech support emailed me back, the standard, reset your whole router business.

i also bought another router from compusa, the same model, just to see if it works the same because of their great return policy, at first i thought it was better, but then it turned out to be the same...

i think i found out why... I have a PC all 24/7 that does bittorrent, at times i have about 10 different streams of BT files going on at the same time, however, i thought that this would only affect Internet.

what i tried yesterday, using both new compusa (hardware 1.2, fw 1.6) and my own router (hardware 1.0, fw 1.6) I turned off my torrent client, and everything works like a charm including streaming video from my PCs (which was a pain before when torrent is on)

how can this be possible, that the torrent files interrupt my INTERNAL/INTRANET connections? The only thing I can think of is somehow Gamefuel is on for BT (I only have it on for XBOX 360/LIVE) and the d-link router is managing/processing all my torrent traffic, and somehow it degrades the router's internal processor performance, causing my wired to wireless LAN connections to suffer greatly...

any ideas?

 

[Madwand1]

There's always a limit to what any router can handle for connections and BT, and everything typically has to be firewalled. The DGL are better than the norm, but there's still a limit. If you want to do even better, you might need a really high end device, or roll your own using a Linux box.

I don't do this much myself, so couldn't advise you on the tweaks, but disabling SPI might help.

http://www.tomsnetworking.com/2006/04/19/which_router_for_p2p/