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does anyone else with the DIR-615 find it loses internet connectivity after a few days?

I have to reboot it, which is acceptable when i'm at home, but considering i RDP to my home PC and have an email server at home, it's a royal PITA when I'm out as i can't send/receive emails until I get home!

I'm on the latest firmware, considering trying a openwrt

really annoying!
 
does anyone else with the DIR-615 find it loses internet connectivity after a few days?

I have to reboot it, which is acceptable when i'm at home, but considering i RDP to my home PC and have an email server at home, it's a royal PITA when I'm out as i can't send/receive emails until I get home!

I'm on the latest firmware, considering trying a openwrt

really annoying!

put dd-wrt on it

stock firmware is ridiculously rubbish
 
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File size transferred : 100.0 MB (104857600 bytes)
Total time taken : 16.97 seconds (16972 milliseconds)
Throughput : 6178.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 6.18 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 49424.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 49.42 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]

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Back to full speed now. :confused:
 
Rang up over this today & the woman said If I took this Id be in another 12 month contract with them! Rubbish! Will the same happen if I roll with the 20mb to 30mb "free" upgrade?
 
Rang up over this today & the woman said If I took this Id be in another 12 month contract with them! Rubbish! Will the same happen if I roll with the 20mb to 30mb "free" upgrade?
Always the way with VM and most other ISP's.


Sorted out the usenet problem, turned out to be Astraweb. Moved to Supernews, and now constantly maxes out.
I did the same thing, much better.
 
does anyone else with the DIR-615 find it loses internet connectivity after a few days?

I have to reboot it, which is acceptable when i'm at home, but considering i RDP to my home PC and have an email server at home, it's a royal PITA when I'm out as i can't send/receive emails until I get home!

I'm on the latest firmware, considering trying a openwrt

really annoying!

put dd-wrt on it

stock firmware is ridiculously rubbish

Sonny is correct, VM screw-up EVERY router they mess around with changing the firmware, it is one of the reasons i really really do not want their crappy all-in-one "super-hub" ... it's liekly to be just as bad !

As Sonny says, grab the DD-WRT firmware for it, just make sure you read the install instructions and get the correct download for your hardware version ;)


My laptop is regularly connected to networks which dwarf my home connection so I'm confident it's not the bottleneck. I did also test from my servers which are hardwired and they all report similar results. I have not tested during the day but I will try over the weekend.
Fair point, not likely to be that then

------------------------------------------------------------------
File size transferred : 100.0 MB (104857600 bytes)
Total time taken : 16.97 seconds (16972 milliseconds)
Throughput : 6178.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 6.18 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 49424.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 49.42 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]

1221146088.png


Back to full speed now. :confused:
VM screwing around then !! - are you in an area that is due to have some upgrade work done soon, or some going on ? - i seem to remember various fluctuations being reported by people when they were upgrading in areas, and although they are too stupid to admit that there may be some slow downs due to on going improvement works, preferring to bury their heads in the sand and deny everything.... it is a very likely possibility, it is also jsut as likely you got traffic shaped ! - it is why they say "upto" and "fair use policy" so they can do this sort of thing with no comeback


Rang up over this today & the woman said If I took this Id be in another 12 month contract with them! Rubbish! Will the same happen if I roll with the 20mb to 30mb "free" upgrade?
Yup, that's normal, i hate it too, but each upgrade, much like with your mobile phone contract, bumps the contract period


Sorted out the usenet problem, turned out to be Astraweb. Moved to Supernews, and now constantly maxes out.
Thatsa couple of you now reporting this, yet i'm not really seing any issues, getting as fast as i can right now (previous info regarding 20meg ish speeds withstanding)

Speaking of newsgroups, i grabbed some files yesterday that were 27 days old, and Alt.Binz did not need to shift to the secondary server because of the files age, and it looks like it downloaded them on the VM server :eek: - did we get a file retention period increase ?
 
Sonny is correct, VM screw-up EVERY router they mess around with changing the firmware, it is one of the reasons i really really do not want their crappy all-in-one "super-hub" ... it's liekly to be just as bad !

As Sonny says, grab the DD-WRT firmware for it, just make sure you read the install instructions and get the correct download for your hardware version ;)



Fair point, not likely to be that then


VM screwing around then !! - are you in an area that is due to have some upgrade work done soon, or some going on ? - i seem to remember various fluctuations being reported by people when they were upgrading in areas, and although they are too stupid to admit that there may be some slow downs due to on going improvement works, preferring to bury their heads in the sand and deny everything.... it is a very likely possibility, it is also jsut as likely you got traffic shaped ! - it is why they say "upto" and "fair use policy" so they can do this sort of thing with no comeback



Yup, that's normal, i hate it too, but each upgrade, much like with your mobile phone contract, bumps the contract period



Thatsa couple of you now reporting this, yet i'm not really seing any issues, getting as fast as i can right now (previous info regarding 20meg ish speeds withstanding)

Speaking of newsgroups, i grabbed some files yesterday that were 27 days old, and Alt.Binz did not need to shift to the secondary server because of the files age, and it looks like it downloaded them on the VM server :eek: - did we get a file retention period increase ?

After reading about I think I must have been traffic shaped, but I've not idea why - since installing the 50Mbp I've downloaded next to nothing. Most days its just web and VPN into the office.

If i'd been using P2P I'd understand!
 
Not sure if anyone else have had similiar problems, we found with numerous devices, the Superhub just drops connection (e.g. today we had Boxee, laptop, iPad, 3 phones and 2 PCs raping LAN/WAN bandwith). It seems driven by WLAN devices.

We connected the DIR-615 to the Superhub to provide Wireless and no more drop outs...fingers crossed it remains.
 
Thatsa couple of you now reporting this, yet i'm not really seing any issues, getting as fast as i can right now (previous info regarding 20meg ish speeds withstanding)

Speaking of newsgroups, i grabbed some files yesterday that were 27 days old, and Alt.Binz did not need to shift to the secondary server because of the files age, and it looks like it downloaded them on the VM server :eek: - did we get a file retention period increase ?

Maybe something to do with the UBR perhaps and many users using Astraweb, I noticed it stayed at full speed, then always drops to the same speeds (~1.8mb/s).
 
Sorted out the usenet problem, turned out to be Astraweb. Moved to Supernews, and now constantly maxes out.

I've been unhappy for the last month because of traffic shaping so about an hour ago I decided to mess around with settings in Newsleecher by basically changing ports and now I'm maxing out.
I changed from 563 to 8080 and now I'm happy.
 
I've been unhappy for the last month because of traffic shaping so about an hour ago I decided to mess around with settings in Newsleecher by basically changing ports and now I'm maxing out.
I changed from 563 to 8080 and now I'm happy.

A month of that would have driven me insane. Port 563 being shaped is old news, a quick Google or asking on here would have solved your woes long ago. Glad you got it sorted at any rate. :D

EDIT: You'd probably be better off using SSL over port 443 btw.
 
I've been unhappy for the last month because of traffic shaping so about an hour ago I decided to mess around with settings in Newsleecher by basically changing ports and now I'm maxing out.
I changed from 563 to 8080 and now I'm happy.

We tried that but didnt make much of a difference. Also tried 443.
 
File size transferred : 100.0 MB (104857600 bytes)
Total time taken : 16.85 seconds (16848 milliseconds)
Throughput : 6223.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
= 6.22 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
= 49784.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
= 49.78 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]
 
My modem died on me so they sent out an engineer and he replaced it with a Superhub.

So far so good. Works well with my Netgear WNDR3700 router and speeds unaffected (both wired and wireless).



Cheers,

PC.
 
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