AnalogRival Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 I'd just ditch Linksys, that's what I'm doing very soon. The product is OK, but the firmware sucks, as does most of the support. Although on various message boards I have seen a few VERY intelligent people that work for Linksys. Too bad they're few and far between. As for the UPnP, I've never had a problem with it myself, and I love it. It's great for games and now SmatFTP supports it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monofonik Posted October 17, 2003 Author Share Posted October 17, 2003 I'd just ditch Linksys, that's what I'm doing very soon. The product is OK, but the firmware sucks, as does most of the support. Although on various message boards I have seen a few VERY intelligent people that work for Linksys. Too bad they're few and far between.As for the UPnP, I've never had a problem with it myself, and I love it. It's great for games and now SmatFTP supports it. I'm thinking what I will probably do is buy the BEFSR41 v.3 router, and get extended warranty on it. I love the router, but I hate this stupid problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monofonik Posted October 17, 2003 Author Share Posted October 17, 2003 Okay, I just got off the line with Linksys live chat, and the guy said to change my router IP address to 192.168.2.1, because the IP of the router might be conflicting with that of the modem. I did this, but as with all Linksys techs that I've spoken with, I question his knowledge and motives behind his suggestion. Does this sound like a logical solution, BudMan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tt_boy Posted October 17, 2003 Share Posted October 17, 2003 I had the same problems, what kind of cablemodem do you have? Linksys and RCA brand cable modems do not sync well. If you can, replace the RCA for another make, ie Erricson, works wonderful for me. Anyhow, there are a few things you can do. 1 The IP of your cable modem is 192.168.100.1 . Type this into your web browser to access an HTTP with some information from your modem, ie SNR, power level, etc. Restore the factory settings on your router, dont mess with MTU etc, it wont help you much. The tech support ppl have a checklist of crap they put you through, no offense but they are wasting your time running you in circles. Try the different firmwares (didnt work for me), but i think you may benefit from swapping your modem for another make... good luck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted October 17, 2003 MVC Share Posted October 17, 2003 (edited) The changing the ip address to 192.168.2.1 does NOT make one bit of sense! If it was conflicting with your modem IP address - you would not be working at all. And does not support the symptoms your seeing. Once you moved to 1.45.7 - did you check to make sure that uPnP was not enabled? As to your question about turning off the firewall features of the router - that makes NO sense, and would not suggest it in the least. Now if your just talking about turning off the stupid linksys java, activex, cookie filters - yeah turn those stupid things off. But if I understand your question the way you intended it - you want to have inbound ports available to every machine?? This is NOT even possible in a NAT setup, yes you could put 1 machine into the DMZ - but in a NAT setup you can not have all inbound ports available to all machines. But you want to be behind the router - so that the only inbound ports to your machines, are the ones you have opened. Once you are behind the router - I see really no need for a software based firewall on your machines, unless you are worried about other machines on your lan. Or you want to keep an eye on any software that might be trying to go outbound with out you knowing. Please check that on the new firmware you have uPnP disabled - since I do believe this is your problem. Since you have multiple machines connecting - I wonder if part of the problem is not machines fighting over which inbound ports to forward to them. For example - say your IM client is uPnP aware, and trying to open inbound ports on your router for its use. Then another machine on lan starts their IM client and it does the same thing - only telling the router to forward the inbound ports to their ip address. If you want to disable this feature on a specific machines - disable the SSDP and uPnP device host services. If not using such services - they just put unwanted traffic on your lan. And with multiple machines connnected to a uPnP router - they could be fighting over where ports are forwarded too, etc.. Again - this is just my theory, but I have seen that the changing of forwarded ports on a linksys router will disconnected active sessions. And you can test this, as I stated before - do a manual change of your port forwarding setup while connected using your IM client - and I am quite sure you will see the same symptoms. edit: BTW it was working with 1.44.2 firmware and uPnP disabled - and a router ip address of 192.168.1.1 - So how does that support the suggestion to change to a 2.1 ip address?? Edited October 17, 2003 by BudMan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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