Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 19:12 Post subject: Periodic Slowness/Requires Reboot
Hi Brainslayer, thanx for making this. I've been plagued by my gf's niece who lives with us and leeching our internet like mad. So I bought the special edition v23 and installed it successfully. I've setup all the QoS, and limited her bandwidth down to 650kb/s. All seems well, however, occasionally, about every day or so, we'll have to reboot the router, whether thru software or simply unplugging the power for 1 min and reboot. If we don't, the internet crawls on all machines, wired or not. I'm pretty certain that it's the router because the modem functions just fine if I were to connect the modem directly to my machine. Is there anything that I can do to prevent this? I'm not using the latest firmware because I didn't see anything in the release notes in regards of this issue. It's the 7/13/06 release. Oh yah, it's a WRT54GL V1.0 Thanx.
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7492 Location: Dresden, Germany
Posted: Wed Aug 30, 2006 20:39 Post subject:
habe you configured your udp timeouts to 120? have you configured max connections to 4096? if not, its the right time todo it. (administration->management)
its caused if a computer floods your router with connection requests like emule, bittorrent etc it does. and viruses too for sure.
you can view the current connection statistic at Status->Router so everything you need is provided by dd-wrt, you just need to look inside _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s
brain this was the same issue I was talking with you with about. My only solution is that some firmwares don’t suffer from this issue and some do. Its an exact science I know . For example special firmware 7/30, and 8/21 suffer from this issue, while version 8/03 does not. I am about to test the vpn version now.
Joined: 06 Jun 2006 Posts: 7492 Location: Dresden, Germany
Posted: Thu Aug 31, 2006 20:52 Post subject:
definitly not. the firmware changes in the last time are very minor. almost cosmetic _________________ "So you tried to use the computer and it started smoking? Sounds like a Mac to me.." - Louis Rossmann https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL_5YDRWqGE&t=60s
Hrm...after thinking about what you said, it makes sense, since if the ports are filled, the router would respond rather slowly and I'm assuming udp is mostly for outgoing traffic. I think. I set the udp to 120 and 4096 for availble ports. Thanx for the help! Hope this worx. Btw, I'm really impressed with all this. Great job!
Glad to hear that worked for you... I'm having a similar problem. After 7-8 days the router seems to sloooow down - even the GUI control panel. I was on vacation last week and wasn't running any P2P software, and so I had to reboot the router to fix these problems.
well never mind then, becuase that is totally different then my issue. I thought you were saying after a few minutes that your router would become slow and stop fuctioning. So its a totally different issue.
. For example special firmware 7/30, and 8/21 suffer from this issue, while version 8/03 does not. I am about to test the vpn version now.