TP Link Router Issues

[j007]

Hi people. I'm new to the forum, so please , be gentle .

I've been using the ultimate tp-link N router for a few days now, however, I'm experiencing a very strange issue with it.

I connect my PS3 via a wireless connection using the TP-link router. And for the around a few hours I experience no lag at all on Fifa 12. However, as a few hours passes, I start to lag ; its not delay, its more like a jumpy irritating lag that happens periodically.

I then reboot the router and everything is perfect again!

Please can someone tell me why this is happening? The internet works perfect and I haven't experience any drops in connection so far. I have virgin media 30mb internet and my ping/ download is excellent throughout the day !

The model number is; TP-Link WR1043ND

Any help would be most appreciated as this is baffling me!

Thanks!

 

[Azuse05]

Sounds like it's not closing connections then running out or ram/cpu cycles. If you can change the timeout values great, if not there's not much you can do tbh.

Some manufacturers became wise to their daft timeout values a couple years back thanks to torrents/tabbed browsers becoming mainstream. Simply searching steam servers for tf2 will open 8k connections though, far more than torrents - plus things like the xbox are constantly opening new connections. Linksys default used to be 6 hours iirc, so you can imagine the effect not removing their entries will have you your routers small cpu.

 

[j007]

Sounds like it's not closing connections then running out or ram/cpu cycles. If you can change the timeout values great, if not there's not much you can do tbh.

Some manufacturers became wise to their daft timeout values a couple years back thanks to torrents/tabbed browsers becoming mainstream. Simply searching steam servers for tf2 will open 8k connections though, far more than torrents - plus things like the xbox are constantly opening new connections. Linksys default used to be 6 hours iirc, so you can imagine the effect not removing their entries will have you your routers small cpu.

Thank you for your post.

I'm not the best on computers, but I think I've found what I need to change.

Is it called the DHCP Lease time? It's currently set to 120 minutes, but I'm allowed to change this.

Thanks

 

[Azuse05]

That's the ip lease time of machines on your lan, it's the tcp/udp timeouts that would need changing. I'm just speculating though - bombarding it wiyth connections would be an easy way to check.

Could also be overheating.