On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:15 AM, vendor@billoblog.com wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Chris Murphy wrote:
Hi,
I have a super annoying problem that is not Fedora specific, but it's been driving me nuts for a few weeks. Any idea for a more appropriate forum to post this in is as useful as an idea what's going on or next steps.
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I think this is a problem that comes up with Linksys routers in general, not just the WRT600N. It used to happen to me with an older Linksys device, and I went through the "try changing the MTU, try changing the firmware, try resetting to factory..." etc.
All that stuff. Sometimes it would work for awhile, and sometimes it wouldn't. If you go to the Linksys forums, it always seems to boil down to bad firmware -- whether ma nufacturere or dd-wrt for any number of models of products from this brand.
The only thing I ever found that seemed to work for one person (it didn't work for me), was to shield cables or move the router away from the cable modem. The claim was that it was electrical noise:
http://www.speedguide.net/articles/router-speed-drop-solved-1885
Other explanations I have seen include:
- You are dropping a lot of packets because of noise and the router
automatically drops down to lower bandwidth when that happens (my old DSL router did this all the time back in the day because I had a noisy phone line)
- You are in an area where there is congestion on a particular channel
(e.g. you live in an apartment and all your neighbors are simultaneously downloading porn and playing World of Warcraft 24 hours a day)
And, I have to admit, when I looked at my router, it did follow a pattern of dropping increasing numbers of packets before it crumped.
But mostly it was just Linksys/Cisco consumer product issues.
See:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=419398&sid=26a65103ddffd19c... http://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/Linksys-WRT600N-Losing-Down...
other models:
https://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/WRT1900AC-dropping-2-4ghz-... https://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/WRT-1900-AC-Wi-Fi-Speed-Dr...
Like I mentioned though, this happens with Intel NUC wireless directly connecting to the AP. The WRT600N isn't involved at all.