Concurrent connection on a router...(slow/no connection)

JayF · #1 10-05-2006, 07:29 PM

Hi everyone,

Not exactly sure what the problem is here, I'm hoping someone have had similar problems as most of us probably use a router to connect to their broadband connection and could give me a few suggestions.

I own a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, revision 2. Its upgraded to the latest firmware. There's 4 clients connected to it by wire and one client connecting through secured WiFi.

Everything is going well except for when I download from [censored]. Even though I capped my upload at 20Kbps and am only downloading at 20ish (I capped it to make sure it was the source of the problem) all the other computers loose their HTTP/POP, etc access...MSN messenger and other low bandwidth or services with high TTL seems to stay online.

From computers, most pings time out...pinging the gateway gives ~50% packet loss...pretty crazy.

I don't know what else to try, everything should be working...I capped the bandwidth used by [censored] in the client...the ports are forwarded properly...

Any ideas? Thanks!

BiPolar_Nut · #2 10-05-2006, 07:50 PM

All the junk traffic generated by p2p crap cracks me up.
Solution: don't use them.
You're probably just flooding your poor linksys and it's choking.

JayF · #3 10-05-2006, 10:34 PM

Well...I wouldn't call p2p traffic junk.

Anyways, not using p2p isn't entirely up to me as the connection is shared between 5 persons.

I just figured that one of the best "personal" router would be able to manage and release connections well enough. I've reduced the number of concurrent connection allowed in the [censored] clients used and it helped a little but the download speed will be slower on popular torrent I am guessing.

S'pose its better than having to pay for a Cisco router :P

Thanks for the reply.

BiPolar_Nut · #4 10-05-2006, 10:38 PM

Cisco? Nah...recycle an old computer into an IPCop box [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

Jeff_B · #5 10-06-2006, 02:45 AM

Are you talking about bit torrent?
Bit torrent basically uses all your tcp ports available/ and all bandwidth to try to make constant connenctions. NO free ports ... no download web pages.

Also if your upload is too high there will be difficulty in downloading webpages.

I had that problem when I used to download torrents of linux isos for servers at work... When they work, torrents are perfect.. when they don't its really frustrating.