Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 2:21 Post subject:
drjlo wrote:
TxITGuy wrote:
o Tx power at 85
o Drilled the top of the unit so it looks like swiss cheese for cooling (seems to work)
I have slow speeds upstairs (damn these new routers without long external antennas), so I tried a range of Tx power from 28 to 100 on my WRT310N, and it made NO difference in downloads speeds or signal strength!
I'm using a 5 dbi antenna/USB wireless N dongle.
Here in So Cal, the router does get warm, so I tried flipping it over with the performations on the bottom facing up. Well, it worked for heat, but the internet speeds slowed down by 4-5 Mbps. I ended up putting my WRT310N on its side, which gave me the most speed on the first floor, but still no improvement upstairs.
For those types of linksys units (newer, no external antennas) i always set it to Tx 40mW, also for the cooling issue, i just put a piece of wood under the edge of it near the ports, so it raises it just enough to get a little space under it for some bottom circulation, i was using a full sized permanent marker, but i found a square sized equivalent and use it now, seems to help a little bit without throwing off the signal. _________________ Wireless N Config | Linking Routers | DD-WRT Wiki | DD-WRT Builds | Peacock - Broadcom FAQ
I spoke to soon. After a couple of days with DD-WRT, the Linksys is exhibiting the same problem with slow wireless speeds. Power cycle fixes it temporarily.
Conclusion: Linksys WRTXXX series is turtle doodoo with incurable hardware issues. Linksys should be ashamed of themselves.
I spoke to soon. After a couple of days with DD-WRT, the Linksys is exhibiting the same problem with slow wireless speeds. Power cycle fixes it temporarily.
Conclusion: Linksys WRTXXX series is turtle doodoo with incurable hardware issues. Linksys should be ashamed of themselves.
I agree...I miss the WRT54G form factor type cases.
Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 4:04 Post subject:
drjlo wrote:
Conclusion: Linksys WRTXXX series is turtle doodoo with incurable hardware issues. Linksys should be ashamed of themselves.
BTW, you killed the $hit out of me...lol.. oh so true, i do however have wrt320n which has been better to me than the wrt310, but really still doo doo.
I have a few days left on Linksys warranty. I really don't want another WRT310N. Last time I talked to them, they seemed somewhat willing to send me a refurb WRT54G2 instead if I wanted. They claimed they don't have any refurb WRT52GL unfortunately.
I assume WRT54G2 is not DD-WRT capable. Should I still take it?
Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2010 10:55 Post subject:
drjlo wrote:
I have a few days left on Linksys warranty. I really don't want another WRT310N. Last time I talked to them, they seemed somewhat willing to send me a refurb WRT54G2 instead if I wanted. They claimed they don't have any refurb WRT52GL unfortunately.
I assume WRT54G2 is not DD-WRT capable. Should I still take it?
I would steer clear of that unit, its even worse than the wrt310, the WRT54G2 is compatible, well atleast v1.0 v1.3, but my main reason to stay away from that unit is because last i knew, it has a 2Mb flash and 8Mb RAM, this would cause great sorrow to your network and thus discouraged. _________________ Wireless N Config | Linking Routers | DD-WRT Wiki | DD-WRT Builds | Peacock - Broadcom FAQ
The speeds have been holding since the last power cycle for a couple days. Here's hoping the last glitch was a fluke and all will go well
A strange thing has happened since flashing DD-WRT Mini to WRT310N V.2, however. All my computers have Win 7, but one has Windows XP Pro. This XP computer is randomly losing its IP address.
Wireless would be fine one minute, and next I see a yellow sign over the wireless bars logo saying I have "limited" wireless. click on it, and it says my XP computer does not have an IP address assigned! Push "repair" and it would get fixed, but this occurs randomly several times a day.
At least this has never happened with Linksys firmware. Is there a setting somewhere in DD-WRT Mini to fix this?
Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2010 23:13 Post subject:
drjlo wrote:
The speeds have been holding since the last power cycle for a couple days. Here's hoping the last glitch was a fluke and all will go well
A strange thing has happened since flashing DD-WRT Mini to WRT310N V.2, however. All my computers have Win 7, but one has Windows XP Pro. This XP computer is randomly losing its IP address.
Wireless would be fine one minute, and next I see a yellow sign over the wireless bars logo saying I have "limited" wireless. click on it, and it says my XP computer does not have an IP address assigned! Push "repair" and it would get fixed, but this occurs randomly several times a day.
At least this has never happened with Linksys firmware. Is there a setting somewhere in DD-WRT Mini to fix this?
Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 0:08 Post subject:
On that unit, i always set to 40, also with your ACK, you should either set it to 0 or set it to what your distance should cover. I mean in the end this is still poo, but with certain settings it can run a little bit more stable. _________________ Wireless N Config | Linking Routers | DD-WRT Wiki | DD-WRT Builds | Peacock - Broadcom FAQ
On that unit, i always set to 40, also with your ACK, you should either set it to 0 or set it to what your distance should cover. I mean in the end this is still poo, but with certain settings it can run a little bit more stable.
I set the ACK to 50.
Anyway, the stability lasted 2-3 days and just went downhill. Internet speed slowed by more than 50%, and I had to power cycle my Linksys again. Interestingly, the speed didn't come back right away and took a few minutes this time.
I think I'm done with Linksys. I won't bother calling them again to spend another few hours on the phone since the best they'll do is send me another WRT310N, my THiRD!!
I already paid for shipping back the first bad unit, and I don't wan to pay shipping again, just to have another dog poo WRT310N, yet to ship back again??!!
Joined: 06 Feb 2010 Posts: 7401 Location: Little Rock
Posted: Fri Aug 13, 2010 2:49 Post subject:
Yea i know what you mean, i don't really care for these new linksys units, i mean they are ok, but they have to many problems, main thing i have seen with the wrt310 and wrt320 alike is that they get hot, very hot. They are not as good as the older model ones for sure...
Like i said in my previous post, i run an Asus WL-520gU for my gateway now with very solid results, and i have many N unit routers here, they just all seem to have their little 'quirks' and i found the G routers i have produce a much more stable results. I only use a few wireless devices here, my main machines are wired.
I only foresee one problem with all this for me though, comcast is going to launch their docsis 3.0 for this area in about a month, i'll need a better CPU than whats in my G routers to route my newly gained bandwidth, thus will be forced to go back to some kind of N router. _________________ Wireless N Config | Linking Routers | DD-WRT Wiki | DD-WRT Builds | Peacock - Broadcom FAQ
I recently acquired a WRT310N v1 that I successfully flashed to DD-WRT v24 preSP2, Mini first, then Standard (cf. that guide).
But I've just past several hours trying to understand why my workstations could not access Internet...
This model had not enough NVRAM to store my settings (nothing fancy though) and about 8 DHCP static leases.
So dnsmasq wasn't even able to start (hopefully a manual start would give the fatal hint, something like: size: 32766 bytes (234 left))
For now, I went back to a Mini version (r14896, 2010-08-09) and my NVRAM is taking 21314 bytes (11454 left).
Is that a common WRT310N issue? Is 4MB really not enough for DD-WRT v24 STD?
While googling before paypaling this unit, I didn't found such complain.
PS: Still no "RTSP conntrack" support on v24 releases :-/
Joined: 22 Aug 2006 Posts: 47 Location: Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Posted: Tue Sep 28, 2010 13:21 Post subject:
_Raynor_ wrote:
Is 4MB really not enough for DD-WRT v24 STD?
While I'm not running a recent release (running 13064), I don't have a memory issue running a standard build. Mine has been running now about about 148 days without a restart.
DNSMasq is running OK for me.
Many others here are using the 310N as well, so I think there would be more complaints if the memory problem was more widespread.
sign over the wireless bars logo saying I have "limited" wireless. click on it, and it says my XP computer does not have an IP address assigned! Push "repair" and it would get fixed, but this occurs randomly several times a day.
