So I’ve bought a DLink DIR-655 router after having a WRT54GL v1.1 for many many years of trouble free routing (kek!) until I upgraded to 20MB cable.
The problem I experience is random soft reboots, the router will reboot/reconnect itself every few days, mostly in the late/early hours so not a major issue but on rare occasions I’d see it reboot itself during a L4D game at an early evening time!
I’ve been trying Tomato, DD-WRT and HyperWRT-Thibor-15c and all exhibit this issue.
I chose to stick with tomato though as it allows me to keep a scheduled 5am reboot to avoid it rebooting itself at any other time which I found to work quite well.
I did a bit of digging and found a fair number of people reporting the same issue on 20MB and the fact that many routers inc the WRT doesn’t have a 20MB stable LAN<>WAN throughput. I have 4 wireless users and 3 wired users connected to the WRT at any one time so this would explain that and the reason why it was perfectly fine on 10MB but showed this performance issue only when I upgraded to 20MB.
Also I need a gigabit switched router and Wireless N for current and future expansion so this would be an ideal time to upgrade. The big thing was torrents, the DIR is said to handle multiple connections with ease so this one one selling point.
I wanted to ask if anyone here has 20MB and a WRT54G and also a large number of connected machines and devices?
Also I’m looking to see a nice increase in sustained stability and performance with all clients connected
I’m not looking to troubleshoot the WRT54G I have, it’s not a faulty router or configured incorrectly, it works perfectly well under standard use. My home usage doesn’t really fall under “normal” use so wanted to know if anyone else has seen this throughput issue leading to the router soft-rebooting itself under heavy usage?
I have had 2x WRT54GL routers and both had the same issue so it’s not an age thing. (2 because I switched to Sky ADSL at one point due to cheapness and sold the old WRT…worst mistake ever so went back to VM and bought a new WRT
).
I’ll report back once the DIR is installed – should be here today or tomorrow!
The problem I experience is random soft reboots, the router will reboot/reconnect itself every few days, mostly in the late/early hours so not a major issue but on rare occasions I’d see it reboot itself during a L4D game at an early evening time!
I’ve been trying Tomato, DD-WRT and HyperWRT-Thibor-15c and all exhibit this issue.
I chose to stick with tomato though as it allows me to keep a scheduled 5am reboot to avoid it rebooting itself at any other time which I found to work quite well.
I did a bit of digging and found a fair number of people reporting the same issue on 20MB and the fact that many routers inc the WRT doesn’t have a 20MB stable LAN<>WAN throughput. I have 4 wireless users and 3 wired users connected to the WRT at any one time so this would explain that and the reason why it was perfectly fine on 10MB but showed this performance issue only when I upgraded to 20MB.
Also I need a gigabit switched router and Wireless N for current and future expansion so this would be an ideal time to upgrade. The big thing was torrents, the DIR is said to handle multiple connections with ease so this one one selling point.
I wanted to ask if anyone here has 20MB and a WRT54G and also a large number of connected machines and devices?
Also I’m looking to see a nice increase in sustained stability and performance with all clients connected
I’m not looking to troubleshoot the WRT54G I have, it’s not a faulty router or configured incorrectly, it works perfectly well under standard use. My home usage doesn’t really fall under “normal” use so wanted to know if anyone else has seen this throughput issue leading to the router soft-rebooting itself under heavy usage?
I have had 2x WRT54GL routers and both had the same issue so it’s not an age thing. (2 because I switched to Sky ADSL at one point due to cheapness and sold the old WRT…worst mistake ever so went back to VM and bought a new WRT
).I’ll report back once the DIR is installed – should be here today or tomorrow!
If it hasn't been snapped up before I get paid I'll post back. Cheers.