WRT54g w/ DD-WRT suddenly killing bandwidth

[thirdeye]

For some reason within the past few days my router has been killing my bandwidth big time. I can clock my bandwidth on speakeasy.net @ ~ 5mb down/700k up but connected directly to the modem I'll get my normal speeds of 15m down/700k up.

I have no clue what is going on. I did have some QoS setup a while back that seemed to work until one day it decided it wanted to limit my http traffic instead of give priority to it. I've since turned it off, but it still is acting flaky. It also has worked normally before, but now it doesn't.

I've tried resetting everything too, with no luck. Any ideas?

 

[L00ker]

I am seeing similar behavior on my router and I have a WRT54G V3 with DD-wrt loaded on it and I am thinking of looking for a faster router to upgrade to but not sure what one I need anyone?

 

[thirdeye]

Well at least I'm not the only one noticing this.

 

[L00ker]

My biggest crux or whatever it would be called (difficulty understanding) is WHY do I have any need for anything more than a 54Mbit WLAN to connect to my broadband side? I mean I get ~10-14Mbit service (sometimes) on the WAN side, so why would I need some 100Mbit+ N spec or MIMO spec router to have a good connection? I mean can someone explain why it is that 4-5x the bandwidth on the LAN side is somehow insufficient? And if it IS sufficient coudl someone point me to a good 54Mbit wireless router that isn't like 100 bazillion fufillion dollars? I mean I COULD spend the $200 on a spec N blah blah blah but I don't see how that makes any logical sense when 54Mbit should be plenty...

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: L00ker
My biggest crux or whatever it would be called (difficulty understanding) is WHY do I have any need for anything more than a 54Mbit WLAN to connect to my broadband side? I mean I get ~10-14Mbit service (sometimes) on the WAN side, so why would I need some 100Mbit+ N spec or MIMO spec router to have a good connection? I mean can someone explain why it is that 4-5x the bandwidth on the LAN side is somehow insufficient? And if it IS sufficient coudl someone point me to a good 54Mbit wireless router that isn't like 100 bazillion fufillion dollars? I mean I COULD spend the $200 on a spec N blah blah blah but I don't see how that makes any logical sense when 54Mbit should be plenty...

you dont need it for a good WAN connection, those speeds are for a LAN. you may just have one pc, or two, or more and dont have anything to share between them, but thats not the case for everyone.

so if you had 4 or 5 pcs wired and wireless, and set up a workgroup where you could all share files (music, movies, etc) you share everything *fast* locally.

me and my brother used to live together, we both like a variety of music. so hed download some stuff he was interested in, and id download what i was interested in, and we could just share each others stuff whenever we wanted to, and *quickly*

it was nice, he had way more than i ever did, shame he shorted the wrong jumpers on his hard drive and lost it all :/

 

[L00ker]

I understand they are for the wan side (I work as a network engineer) but the statement was made to me that it wasn't the speed or the bandwidth you are buying with the newer N spec routers your more buying into a faster switching chipset that can push full 100Mbit+ throughput to the wan connection, which makes me wonder if I can manually change the speed/duplex settings on my wan port....

 

[L00ker]

Well interestingly enough with qcheck I get 10mbit between 2 wireless nodes on my lan which would mean I am not going to see much better than 10mbit from the wan side because it can't get to my wireless nodes fast enough I guess?