Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 2:13 Post subject: Disclaimer: I am not great with computers. Linksys WRT54GL
I've had my Linksys for a year or two now, but over the last couple of weeks I've been experiencing problems with it. After 5-7 hours my connection would slow to a crawl and return errors when loading webpages. VOIP programs were largely unaffected, though sometimes disconnected.
Without fail, rebooting the router (pulling the power for a few seconds) fixed it. (For 5-7 hours.) Uploading any significant amount of data (eg seeding torrents) seemed to cause the same problem.
So today, about an hour ago now, I rebooted my router the same way, and when I plugged it back in it had lost its configuration. I guess I unintentionally hard-reset it. On top of that, it was no longer serving to its WAN. I tried to fumble my way through setting it back up, ended up calling the guy who did it last time who told me it should be fairly intuitive, just pop in an SSID and set security.
Did that, no dice. Jiggled all the cords, rebooted the router and modem, no joy.
So basically until I can get my guy in tomorrow I'm wondering if any of you can think of anything obvious I could have missed?
Additional info that may be of use (I have no idea):
"Internet" and "WAN" lights are lit up on my router. The "Ethernet" lights are not, though as I recall they were before all this.
It's a cable modem.
Ethernet seems unresponsive as well.
The control panel leads me to believe that the router IS sending and receiving packets.
If you need any information, ask away. I've got all night. D:
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 3:16 Post subject:
Lero wrote:
Just did a 30/30/30 reset, no change.
The firmware version you run is confirmed to have a memory leak. You should try different versions as recommended by the PeaCock Sticky and not the Data Base. _________________ http://69.175.13.131:8015 Streaming Week-End Disco. Station Ripper V 1.1 will do.
The firmware version you run is confirmed to have a memory leak. You should try different versions as recommended by the PeaCock Sticky and not the Data Base.
As per you and the PeaCock thread, I've updated to the latest BrainSlayer distribution that should be compatible with my router.
While I'm certain that would have solved my earlier problems with slowdown and interrupts, my current problem is unaffected.
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:41 Post subject:
Lero wrote:
As per you and the PeaCock thread, I've updated to the latest BrainSlayer distribution that should be compatible with my router.
A prior brief mention of this would have saved several hours of reading and forum feedback.
Let's get some other shit straight right now.
#1 - Firmware is either bad or good. It does not age and then start fucking up several months or years after being put into operation.
#2 - Hardware does age and starts fucking up, months or years after being put into operation. It is a matter of time. The longer yer hardware runs, the higher the odds of it fucking up, until it finally does.
I have numerours ( 35 or 40 ) old fucked up radios in boxes, stored under desks and stuff. Lots of them, everywhere ... _________________ http://69.175.13.131:8015 Streaming Week-End Disco. Station Ripper V 1.1 will do.
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 4:58 Post subject:
GeeTek wrote:
GeeTek wrote:
.... not the Data Base.
I caught that... no ..., I even seen you do it !
The lord works in mysterious ways!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjYJ7zZ9BRw&NR=1
A prior brief mention of this would have saved several hours of reading and forum feedback.
Sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I had been running v24-SP1, but after your response I went off to update to BrainSlayer's v24 Standard Generic.
I had read the PeaCock thread (sorry about forgetting note 7 ) and the other announcements on this board, as well as poking around a bit on the wiki (though I couldn't really find anything that seemed pertinent to my case). More than anything else I was hoping updating wouldn't be the solution as it sounded to be a pain.
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#1 - Firmware is either bad or good. It does not age and then start fucking up several months or years after being put into operation.
#2 - Hardware does age and starts fucking up, months or years after being put into operation. It is a matter of time. The longer yer hardware runs, the higher the odds of it fucking up, until it finally does.
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Posted: Tue Jun 14, 2011 6:24 Post subject:
Lero wrote:
Reasonable. I'd best be off to Futureshop, then?
Not so fast. Have your browsing habits changed lateley ? Added new users ? Have you checked the DD-WRT status page periodically to see if RAM memory is running low ? _________________ http://69.175.13.131:8015 Streaming Week-End Disco. Station Ripper V 1.1 will do.
) and the other announcements on this board, as well as poking around a bit on the wiki (though I couldn't really find anything that seemed pertinent to my case). More than anything else I was hoping updating wouldn't be the solution as it sounded to be a pain.