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« Reply #15 on: February 19, 2008, 04:33:35 PM » |
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« Reply #16 on: February 19, 2008, 10:48:56 PM » |
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Thanks 117, looking into those suggested... Also using this site as reference as my office tech swears by their upgraded firmwares: http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv3/index.phpI too use WAP and MAC filtering and I haven't a problem with being hacked. I too have a neighbor with an unsecured router, and from time to time, I barrow a little extra bandwidth.  |
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« Reply #17 on: February 19, 2008, 10:58:52 PM » |
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Ahhh, not a bad idea. Never thought of going to the airport to do internet stuff.  |
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« Reply #18 on: February 19, 2008, 11:02:27 PM » |
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« Reply #19 on: February 23, 2008, 08:10:54 PM » |
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. Related - I just ran across this page at random: converting a regular old $60 router into a powerful, highly configurable $600 routerInstructions and links to resources for flashing the router with linux-based software, by which you can vastly increase the strength of your router signal. And you get some other cool features. There is a link there to a list of routers that are good candidates for this. Having just found it, it will be a while before I can test-drive it myself. But for anyone who wants to read up on it .... make sure to read through the comments. Many tech-savvy visitors to lifehacker.com are always adding in extra info & critical resource links. -- t3h 3Xp4t |
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« Reply #20 on: February 23, 2008, 09:20:02 PM » |
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Cool. They are using the same site as I linked above. It is nice having more 411 on this.  I here that the newest firmwares support QOS and that will allow you to set packet priority. Then you can build into your router the ability to lower priority on Torrent packets and not have to worry about the 80% overhead rule. |
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« Reply #21 on: February 25, 2008, 12:10:54 PM » |
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Hi --
Sorry to drop out. Busy weekend, and the week is already on fire ...
Your comment on custom traffic config for torrents (etc.) ... yah. That link I posted above specifically has numerous references to traffic-shaping options. You can optimize for torrents, games, skype, etc ...
I got a bit excited when I read it & hope to get back to it as a 'summer project.'
Any commentary &/or experiences anyone wishes to post here, I'll be hopping back to use this topic as a resource in the future.
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« Reply #22 on: February 25, 2008, 10:25:12 PM » |
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Today i feel like throwing my lappy out of the window  It's one of these days that my wireless disconnects every time one of the trackers isn't responding (or some crappy thing like that)   |
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« Reply #23 on: February 25, 2008, 10:44:06 PM » |
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Been a bad day for that around here today, ems. I also understand Dime was acting up a bit. Yeah, I am really interested in finding the time to look at a new router and the above firmware. One of my developers uses it and loves it. I am not sure he has any experience with the traffic shaping tho. Will need to take him out for sushi and find out! |
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« Reply #24 on: February 25, 2008, 10:54:58 PM » |
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« Reply #25 on: February 25, 2008, 10:57:01 PM » |
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So... If a torrent has a problem with a site, it causes your wireless to go down?  I have recently had problems where torrenting on two machines caused my modem (with built in firewall and router) to reboot. But I believe that was due to connecitons and not timeouts reaching a tracker.  |
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« Reply #26 on: February 25, 2008, 11:09:19 PM » |
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So... If a torrent has a problem with a site, it causes your wireless to go down? I have recently had problems where torrenting on two machines caused my modem (with built in firewall and router) to reboot. But I believe that was due to connecitons and not timeouts reaching a tracker. As far as i know (and already experienced) it happens to my wireless if a tracker doesn't respond properly. I downloaded a torrent recently that included an additional tracker url that fooked up my wireless and it was all fine since i replaced that torrent. But today, apparently a tracker is down or whatever. Last year, when an anti-piracy team "pulled the plugs" of some trackers it caused problems to a lot of people for a complete weekend I wondered why my wireless hung all day, whenever i opened Azureus and asked someone who told me about it  |
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« Reply #27 on: February 25, 2008, 11:14:20 PM » |
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I can tell you, we experienced a small disruption today and Dime has been on and offline as well. So there have certainly been opportunity for the wireless to hang. Do you know if this only happens with Azurues or if other clients are susceptible? |
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« Reply #28 on: February 25, 2008, 11:33:10 PM » |
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I can tell you, we experienced a small disruption today and Dime has been on and offline as well. So there have certainly been opportunity for the wireless to hang. Do you know if this only happens with Azurues or if other clients are susceptible? I have no idea, because i only use Azureus. I once tried µtorrent for approx. 5 minutes  I actually expect one of the "strange" trackers (naughty me) to act funny today * I hope it will be ok again soon, because i got the Voodoofest DVD and finally bought a 500 GB external HD |
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« Reply #29 on: February 25, 2008, 11:40:40 PM » |
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Is there a reason one of the "strange" trackers should act funny today. As for the upgraded equipment...  That reminds me... I need to go shopping for a new external HD for here at work. Ran out of space on it last Friday. |
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