wireless connection crashes when downloading big

rudeboymcc · 17 Jan 2007 at 22:44

Hi. I'm using Windwos xp with a kcorp wirelss pci card to a netgear adsl/router.

IF I leave Azureas runnning over night, the wireless connection will crash, guaranteed, in about 2-3 hours. It's a very wierd crash, windows says it's connected and ipconfig is all good. juts nothign can connect to the internet. if i try to disable the connection then windows crashes.

Even wierder thing is at home using a dlink router everything worked fine for days.

It's not just with azureus, I tried downloading a video with opera last night and the same thing happened.

ANyone know wy the netgear router causes this or if it's the router's fault?

blighter · 17 Jan 2007 at 23:17

netgear = *sick*
dlink = *sick*

never seen any make of those that work properly

rudeboymcc · 18 Jan 2007 at 00:04

thanks for that but it doesn't really help. To be honest I bought them down to their marketing. Dlink introduced their G plus wireless thing which was 54mbps (amazing back then) and then Netgear introduced RangeMax and this house is massive so i boguht it.

But that doesn;t matter, do you know what else I can do?

(what make do you recommend then?)

noxidjkram@hotm · 18 Jan 2007 at 06:00

You could try updating the firmware on the netgear router.

If memory serves me correctly netgear had a revision of firmware on one (or more) of their models at one stage that had a cache problem. The router would cease to allow any packets through due to one of the caches filling up - the firmware update solved the problem.

[edit] If a simple software reset (power cycle) of the router fixes the problem and downloads work ok again, then its the router at fault (and very possibly the cache problem i mention). [/edit]

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rudeboymcc · 21 Jan 2007 at 10:50

I've read everywhere about netgear's cache problem, so I updated the firmware and changed all the settings like everyone says. (turned off logging for the ports used by azuerues, and turned off Upnp in azureus).

But the problems; still there. and I don't think it is the router's fault becuase when my pc doens't work with it all the otehr wireless laptops here do, and restarting the router does nto solve the problem.

The only way I've found to fix the problem is restarting windows. I can't disable the wireless connection to repair it.

Does anyone have any ideas?

triggerthat · 21 Jan 2007 at 13:01

Having loads of connections can crash your router. Try limiting the number of connections or queue your downloads. Since I done that, router has been fine ever since

rudeboymcc · 21 Jan 2007 at 13:48

yeah but as I've just said,restarting the router doesn't fix the problem. and when my pc's not working the otehr one does. so it suggests tehre's a problem with my windows rather than the router.

i've made torrent queueu only having 3 downloading at any one time but it still crashes the wireles connection.

noxidjkram@hotm · 22 Jan 2007 at 22:24

Are you using a compatible wireless card on the PC with the latest drivers?

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rudeboymcc · 23 Jan 2007 at 03:20

yep the wirelees card is pc compatible nad has the latest drivers. wierd thing is wiht a differnt router (dlink) it worked fine all night, it's just when going through the netgear router that the wirelees connection crashed.

noxidjkram@hotm · 23 Jan 2007 at 03:47

Sorry, that was poorly phrased.

What i meant was - is the PCs wireless adaptor compatible with the router - sometimes interoperability between brands isn't what it should be.

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rudeboymcc · 23 Jan 2007 at 09:58

well they're not the same brands, the router's a Netgear range max and the pci card is kcorp 54mb, but i'm not using special stuff like wpa or anything so surely it should work? i thought wireless was a standard/?

moogle · 23 Jan 2007 at 11:31

blighter said:
netgear = *sick*
dlink = *sick*

never seen any make of those that work properly

add linksys = *sick*

i've never had a problem. although i run bittornado only, but i have multiple downloads and uploads in emule and i've never crashed. only thing i wish they would implement is bandwidth limiting to different pcs. its really annoying having someone hog the network and i cant do nothing except install a 3rd party net limiter on the pc. if anyone knows of routers where you can limit the up/downstream let me know.

noxidjkram@hotm · 24 Jan 2007 at 23:55

rudeboymcc said:
well they're not the same brands, the router's a Netgear range max and the pci card is kcorp 54mb, but i'm not using special stuff like wpa or anything so surely it should work? i thought wireless was a standard/?

IIRC Range Max is a Netgear specific technology (its not a standard) - having that on the card may cause an incompatibility even if you are not using that function. Sometimes the programmer geeks screw it up.

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rudeboymcc · 25 Jan 2007 at 03:30

so say if i bought a rangemax pci card, surely then there's a chance that it won't work properly with the dlink G+ router?

BloodWolf · 25 Jan 2007 at 03:32

dlink & linksys dont work good either :\

noxidjkram@hotm · 25 Jan 2007 at 05:02

rudeboymcc said:
so say if i bought a rangemax pci card, surely then there's a chance that it won't work properly with the dlink G+ router?

Only way to find that out would be to test it and see.

But Rangemax i'm sure is proprietary technology for Netgear, meaning to be fully compatible the system in question should only use Rangemax products, if it uses any at all.

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