D-LINK DIR-615 and XBOX 360 Disconnections. Help!

lettuce · 7 Sep 2012 at 17:27

Im having problems with my wireless connection to my xbox 360 being disconnected from xbox live at random times and quiet frequently, and im starting to get browned of with it now.

I have had my Virgin Media service upgraded to a 60meg connection and so have lost my old modem and its been replaced with the superhub, the wireless range on that was crap so i got a 2nd hand D-Link DIR-615 and flashed it with the DD-WRT Firmware has i have heard nothing but good thinks about this router and FW combination, so now have my superhub in 'modem mode'.

But i am still getting disconnected from xboxlive for no apparent reason at random time at least once or twice an evening, this never used to happen with my old virgin modem and a Linksys wireless router (which sadly i no longer have.)

These are the wireless settings i have for the my D-LINK DD_WRT router....

Is there anything in those settings that look incorrect?

lettuce · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:47

Can anyone give insight please?

asim18 · 8 Sep 2012 at 12:58

Because both the modem/internet and the router have been 'upgraded' you need to figure out whether it's with the WAN or LAN/WiFi.

You should hook up the Xbox with a network cable and test if it still happens.

If it still happens, check your internet connection for packet loss. http://www.pingtest.net/ and ping bbc.co.uk in cmd.

lettuce · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:21

can never get pingtest to work all ways hangs the browser when it get to around 50% way through the pack loss test.

Thats said the DD-WRT CFW has its own packet loss test on the status screen and is reporting no errors...

But notice the device connect via wireless at the bottom of the screen, that device is about 8ft away yet its saying that quality is only 27%!!!!, what is that surely it should be 75-100% quality??

Azuse05 · 10 Sep 2012 at 19:56

Wifi quality graphing has always been utterly useless, however Ciscos official line is you need a repeater extender once you hit -75dBm. Tx/Rx 108/81 seem unusual, but so is that strength at that range. So long as upnp is on the xbox should just work. Fired up inssider and checked the channels?

Also, why cover the name and ssid but leave your wan ip? Particularly since the former are present in the first post.

lettuce · 10 Sep 2012 at 20:07

i leave the wireless channel on auto anyways, so it should select the channel with less traffic on

Azuse05 · 10 Sep 2012 at 20:36

Problem with that is they don't sick to 1, 6, 11 and you find the neighbours will end up covering most of them in some way creating interference.

lettuce · 10 Sep 2012 at 21:16

Azuse05 said:
Problem with that is they don't sick to 1, 6, 11 and you find the neighbours will end up covering most of them in some way creating interference.

Why are channels 1,6, 11 regarded to be the best?, what makes them different from all the other

tezabeza · 10 Sep 2012 at 23:31

lettuce said:
Why are channels 1,6, 11 regarded to be the best?, what makes them different from all the other

These are used more than others due to the overlap on the WiFi signal, it all depends on how the wireless is set for bandwidth usage if it set to 20Mhz then a single wireless connection will use a bandwidth of 20Mhz so that +/- 10Mhz from the carrier channel.

If you run inSSIDer program you will see what I mean by this.

and if your router is a 300Mbps N type then that will be set for a 40Mhz bandwidth.

So channels 1, 6 and 11 are good for 150Mbps systems but if you have lots of AP around then this will cause problems because the devices will be confused as to which packet they are getting from interference from other AP's so making the wireless connection really slow or it will stop responding all together.

Wireless is good if you dont have many AP near you otherwise its a mine field LoL

This is the reason why I have gone fully wired for my system, there is only 1 laptop and phones now using the wireless on my router.

lettuce · 11 Sep 2012 at 02:13

well i have both wireless G and N device and i have set the wireless mode N/G Mixed, so should i select channel width to 20hmz or 40hmz?

tezabeza · 11 Sep 2012 at 11:11

lettuce said:
well i have both wireless G and N device and i have set the wireless mode N/G Mixed, so should i select channel width to 20hmz or 40hmz?

It depends on the speed your WiFi cards in the devices will work if they are 150Mbps cards then leave at 20Mhz, if you have a card that will do 300Mbps then you need to select 40Mhz, this is due to the high speed and high speed denotes high bandwidth.

The 150Mbps cards will still only work at that cannot go any faster LoL, but the 300Mbps cards will then use the full 40Mhz bandwidth.

OK IF you have few wireless networks near your own but run inSSIDer and check. You will then see your own signal strength of your network to compare with any others your machines are seeing.

lettuce · 11 Sep 2012 at 11:21

tezabeza said:
It depends on the speed your WiFi cards in the devices will work if they are 150Mbps cards then leave at 20Mhz, if you have a card that will do 300Mbps then you need to select 40Mhz, this is due to the high speed and high speed denotes high bandwidth.

The 150Mbps cards will still only work at that cannot go any faster LoL, but the 300Mbps cards will then use the full 40Mhz bandwidth.

OK IF you have few wireless networks near your own but run inSSIDer and check. You will then see your own signal strength of your network to compare with any others your machines are seeing.

So setting at 40Mhz wont have any ill effects on devices that dont support 300Mbps then ie G compatable devices?

Im using DD-WRT CFW to see other wireless networks around me, there are 5 around me, 3 are on channel 11, 1 on channel 6 and another on channel 7. So i have selected channel 1