Hello everyone,
My ASUS G73Jh laptop is connected wirelessly to my home network and I use a Netgear WNR2000v3 router, which I have successfully flashed to the 3rd party DD-WRT firmware. The main reason I am using this over my stock firmware is that it allows me to adjust my NAT table settings and thus be able to play online games again. On my stock firmware, my laptop would disconnect (the router was fine) whenever I refreshed game server browsers because the maximum allowed ports were too low and the TCP/UDP timeouts were too high, causing the the router's NAT table to get flooded very quickly. I have since used DD-WRT to increase my maximum ports and decrease my timeout values. Now, refreshing game server browsers multiple times is completely fine.
However, since making the above changes, I have noticed a new problem: Now YouTube and large game updates on Steam will disconnect me from the network. I can watch a couple of short or low resolution YouTube videos just fine, but if I watch a bunch of videos consecutively, I am guaranteed to drop out. Also, my connection will drop out in the middle of buffering a long or HD YouTube video and in the middle of larger Steam game updates. I can only get reconnected if I reset my laptop's WLAN card. I have a hunch that maybe some of my timeout values are too low. My current settings are as follows:
I would appreciate it if I can get any input on this. If the timeouts are indeed the problem, what are some recommended values then?
My ASUS G73Jh laptop is connected wirelessly to my home network and I use a Netgear WNR2000v3 router, which I have successfully flashed to the 3rd party DD-WRT firmware. The main reason I am using this over my stock firmware is that it allows me to adjust my NAT table settings and thus be able to play online games again. On my stock firmware, my laptop would disconnect (the router was fine) whenever I refreshed game server browsers because the maximum allowed ports were too low and the TCP/UDP timeouts were too high, causing the the router's NAT table to get flooded very quickly. I have since used DD-WRT to increase my maximum ports and decrease my timeout values. Now, refreshing game server browsers multiple times is completely fine.
However, since making the above changes, I have noticed a new problem: Now YouTube and large game updates on Steam will disconnect me from the network. I can watch a couple of short or low resolution YouTube videos just fine, but if I watch a bunch of videos consecutively, I am guaranteed to drop out. Also, my connection will drop out in the middle of buffering a long or HD YouTube video and in the middle of larger Steam game updates. I can only get reconnected if I reset my laptop's WLAN card. I have a hunch that maybe some of my timeout values are too low. My current settings are as follows:
I would appreciate it if I can get any input on this. If the timeouts are indeed the problem, what are some recommended values then?
