"Why do we have to restart routers?"
Jul. 13th, 2008 09:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneYesterday afternoon a post went up on Slashdot wherein this guy wails that he always has to restart his Linksys WRT54G wireless router. And my first thought is: "Whaa? Nani?" What the heck is this guy talking about? I've been using that router for ages, I've recommended it to others who've used them and they've been pretty much trouble-free.
There had been over 800 threads when I pulled up Slashdot this AM, and I knew I couldn't contribute anything insightful. Three trends emerged, aside from the "I've been using that model for years and it's trouble-free". First, apparently if you do torrents, it can eat up resources in your router and cause instability. They recommended installing something like Tomato and doing a little parameter tweaking. Second, some routers are sensitive to power, a UPS takes care of it. And according to at least one post, DLink makes really crappy power adapters and some models are prone to failure. I have one small DLink router that was retired until I got this job and had to get an apartment, I brought the Linksys down here and put the DLink in Cloudcroft. Third, maybe you've got a bad one.
I was unaware that they could get squirrelly in brownout conditions, maybe I'll pick up a dinky little UPS for my networking gear, which is just the little DSL router and my Linksys. I should also get one for Cloudcroft, we get a lot of brownouts up there.
There had been over 800 threads when I pulled up Slashdot this AM, and I knew I couldn't contribute anything insightful. Three trends emerged, aside from the "I've been using that model for years and it's trouble-free". First, apparently if you do torrents, it can eat up resources in your router and cause instability. They recommended installing something like Tomato and doing a little parameter tweaking. Second, some routers are sensitive to power, a UPS takes care of it. And according to at least one post, DLink makes really crappy power adapters and some models are prone to failure. I have one small DLink router that was retired until I got this job and had to get an apartment, I brought the Linksys down here and put the DLink in Cloudcroft. Third, maybe you've got a bad one.
I was unaware that they could get squirrelly in brownout conditions, maybe I'll pick up a dinky little UPS for my networking gear, which is just the little DSL router and my Linksys. I should also get one for Cloudcroft, we get a lot of brownouts up there.
