Demon10000
Supreme [H]ardness
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Greetings:
I've got a Linksys WRT54G running DDWRT. I have a lot of devices on attached to this aging device, and I've questioned the stability a few times.
I have:
Wireless:
4 PCs
2 Wiis
Playstation 3
Cannon Printer
Wired:
Ooma
3 PCs
Xbox 360
Samsung TV
This morning I woke to see my Ooma complaining of no internet service. I jumped on my PC to confirm this. I could not ping my router, nor could I get to the routers Admin page. I recycled power and still couldn't access it. I didn't get a chance to troubleshoot further, so I left it and informed my wife we probably wouldn't have internet today.
My wife later called to tell me internet worked, but it was REALLY crappy. I'm going to do some more troubleshooting when I get home, but I was wondering if it was really worth it. Do I have more devices attached to this than it can handle?
We're not doing anything serious with the internet connection. It's not like we're all torrenting and streaming music. There are no file sharing apps and, for the most part, network activity should be pretty minimal unless we're watching a streamed netflix. The list of devices at the top are never all using the LAN/WAN at the same time, but I know the router still holds the routing table in memory and I'm wondering if we've finally just reached the max number of devices before it craps out.
On a side note, I did schedule a cron job to reboot the router every morning at 4am and that seemed to take care of all of the performance problems I had a while back (6-8 months ago).
I've got a Linksys WRT54G running DDWRT. I have a lot of devices on attached to this aging device, and I've questioned the stability a few times.
I have:
Wireless:
4 PCs
2 Wiis
Playstation 3
Cannon Printer
Wired:
Ooma
3 PCs
Xbox 360
Samsung TV
This morning I woke to see my Ooma complaining of no internet service. I jumped on my PC to confirm this. I could not ping my router, nor could I get to the routers Admin page. I recycled power and still couldn't access it. I didn't get a chance to troubleshoot further, so I left it and informed my wife we probably wouldn't have internet today.
My wife later called to tell me internet worked, but it was REALLY crappy. I'm going to do some more troubleshooting when I get home, but I was wondering if it was really worth it. Do I have more devices attached to this than it can handle?
We're not doing anything serious with the internet connection. It's not like we're all torrenting and streaming music. There are no file sharing apps and, for the most part, network activity should be pretty minimal unless we're watching a streamed netflix. The list of devices at the top are never all using the LAN/WAN at the same time, but I know the router still holds the routing table in memory and I'm wondering if we've finally just reached the max number of devices before it craps out.
On a side note, I did schedule a cron job to reboot the router every morning at 4am and that seemed to take care of all of the performance problems I had a while back (6-8 months ago).