Routers = Retarded

[King_Nothing]

Hey everyone, I recently installed D-Link WBR-2310 108Mbps router, and it work fine except for one small thing. It likes to kill my internet connection for no apparent reason, and to get it restored I have to do a full cpu reboot. Also, my upload speeds are now HORRENDOUS! I tried sending a file to another CPU in the same house as me but on a different ISP then I am on, and it would of taken 4 hours to send 3megs of data. I called my ISP and they said to call D-Link.
Has anyone else had similar issues?

On my network its my CPU, Nintendo Wii and DS, and my ISP Is Shaw @ home.
On the other network in my house has 2 CPU's and their ISP is MTS.

[Fadingtoblack]

I've had a lot of painful experience with Routers - Trying to get my one at home to bloody work!

Mine is a Netgear, so things might be a little different but I'll try and give you some general suggestions that you might be able to use.

-My net connection also likes to drop out (though i can fix it by resetting the router rather than restarting), though I found that it pretty much only did this while I was torrenting.
As far as I could tell, this is to do with the number of connections your torrent is making, so, if something is connecting over the wireless try limiting the number of connections to say 80-100 max, and only download one task at a time.

(if your problem is not while torrenting though this won't help! )


-Different ISP's shouldn't matter when it comes to being on a network I don't think. If they are on seperate networks it could be your trying to upload a file to the net then back again to the other computer which of course would take ages.
Check and make sure all the computers are on the same network, then you should just be able to transfer across across the network - but it will still be fairly slow if you're going over wireless I've found.

-Slow upload speeds, especially in regards to torrents, could also be related to a Firewall problem. If you're on a private tracker somewhere, just have a look in your stats usually they something about if you're 'connectable' or not. If you are not then you need to do some portforwarding on your router.

This site is awesome and has instructions on what ports to forward and how for each router, here's the page specific to yours:

http://portforward.com/english/routers/ ... 0index.htm


I don't know if any of that is helpful but I hope it is! And don't pull too much hair out like I did trying to get the bloody effing thing to work

[King_Nothing]

Thanks for the help man, the connection does usually drop out while I am torrenting, so I will test that theory further just to be sure.

In regards to the upload speeds, It seems to happen on any program other than Bit torrent. On MSN, DC++, whenever people try to download from me, its pure crap speeds, same goes for when I try to send my freinds files over MSN. I am not sure how well ZoneAlarm works with my router, but that is the firewall I am running.
My download speeds are fine, which I dont understand.

Thanks for the tips Fading. I can agree with you, I have been very close to going postal on my router, taking it out back with a baseball bat. A few curse words and I'm usually good to go though haha.

[Fadingtoblack]

Yeah my Router was getting a free trip out the window courtesy of my foot many times

In fact it dropped out again overnight, meaning I only got 5.0% of about 6Gb that should've been almost completed!


Anyway, it does sound like I picked it for the torrenting issue, so try limiting the number of connections and tasks and hopefully you should be sweet. Also if it's still screwing up try limiting the download speed, normally even 100-150kb sec max is enough to get DVD size files overnight and doesn't make your router cry too much.

As for the msn etc, do try that portforwarding stuff I linked you too, because even MSN uses ports for it's file sending so that might fix you up, same with most other programs that traffic over the net, all of a sudden they find themselves blocked by firewall on the new router!


Good luck man, seriously I hate these things now!