Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:40:07 -0700 From: Danny MacMillan <flowers@users.sourceforge.net> To: Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: "R. W." <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> Subject: Re: DSL support Message-ID: <20041108054007.GA47641@procyon.nekulturny.org> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEJLEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <200411070039.45830.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNCEJLEPAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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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
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