From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 8 05:42:25 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7EDE16A4CE for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 05:42:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pd2mo3so.prod.shaw.ca (shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net [24.71.223.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A24A43D48 for ; Mon, 8 Nov 2004 05:42:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: from pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (pd5mr7so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.183]) by l-daemon (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I6U00E40IF9URA0@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:40:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from pn2ml1so.prod.shaw.ca ([10.0.121.145]) by pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca (Sun ONE Messaging Server 6.0 HotFix 1.01 (built Mar 15 2004)) with ESMTP id <0I6U006MFIF9SKH0@pd5mr7so.prod.shaw.ca> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:40:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (S0106000c41b2b9a3.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.45.143]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.18 (built Jul 28 2003)) with ESMTP id <0I6U004GCIF89M@l-daemon> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:40:21 -0700 (MST) Received: from procyon.nekulturny.org (localhost.nekulturny.org [127.0.0.1]) iA85eATu047715; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:40:11 -0700 (MST envelope-from flowers@nekulturny.org) Received: (from flowers@localhost) by procyon.nekulturny.org (8.12.10/8.12.10/Submit) id iA85e8sn047714; Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:40:08 -0700 (MST envelope-from flowers) Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:40:07 -0700 From: Danny MacMillan In-reply-to: To: Ted Mittelstaedt Message-id: <20041108054007.GA47641@procyon.nekulturny.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <200411070039.45830.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: "R. W." Subject: Re: DSL support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 05:42:26 -0000 On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 02:49:34AM -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > > ... > > primary one we have always recommended has been the Linksys BEFSR41. > > ... > > HOWEVER - we are no longer recommending the Linksys devices. Why - > because over the last 3 months we have had an increasing number of > them which have been installed for several years, just fail. And the > failures aren't pretty. Usually the packet flows through the router > start getting slower and slower, and the user gets an increasing number > of disconnections from websites and such that they go to. It is > insidious, and very very difficult to tell the difference from either > a congested ISP or virus activity, so most often the user just gets > more and more dissatisfied with their DSL line, never realizing it's > the cheap router that's the problem. When things get bad enough they > start power-cycling the router and that 'fixes' things for a few > hours, and the customer gets the impression that this is 'normal' for > these devices. > > ... > Speak of the devil and he appears. My 3 month old BEFSR41 puked a few hours after I read your post. In my case it seems to be related to very high bandwidth utilization -- ~470KiB/s down and ~50KiB/s up while grabbing 5.3-Release with bittorrent. The upstream interface seems to have totally cratered, passing no traffic. It did this three times in a row, and it didn't take hours to recur -- just about 10 minutes, seemingly until the traffic built up to a substantial rate again. The first time, a reset did the trick, the next two I actually had to unplug the router and plug it back in. I'm a little choked because the router is virtually brand new. It replaced a 3 year old Hawking Technology PN9245F that worked like a champ, aside from a couple of bad ports. -- Danny