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2 minutes ago, Circaflex said:

Something sounds way off. Hard reset the router using the paperclip method (poke the reset button), plug into router via ethernet. At this point, you arent getting internet so just unplug the WAN cable just in case it was causing a problem, and profit. You dont need to set any ips, mess with the subnet, none of that. Just connect via a physical cable to the router and flash away.

I did that. I can't connect to the router, the webui times out. I've hard-reset the router already. I haven't even touched it besides logging in. 

Figured the problem out. Router doesn't accept connections until WAN is plugged in.

 

Flashed factory to ddwrt now.

 

 

As I suspected, 30/30/30 screws the router up. Everytime I've done this, nothing works.

 

Figured that out, gotta pull the power afterwards. Wait 30, plug it back in. These install notes blow.

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27 minutes ago, sc302 said:

Read the directions and breathe. Take it slow.  You are rushing and creating your own issues. 

Fixed it. MAC Address changed by 1 Number. ISP Fixed it. 

 

Now we wait and see if i have a connection problem.

 

Oh @BudMan - Don't be jealous of my connection. My Friend Mark & his wife have a 1Gbit/s Fiber line in Arizona. They claim to pay $75 / month. 10x my speed for $25 more. And I found out my ISP only has a 20Gbit/s incoming connection per county, thus the cost. They may upgrade to 50Gbit/s in each county, however I'd pay $100 for 500Mbit up/down.

 

And confirmed from ISP, don't care what I do as long as I'm not reselling my internet to my neighbors or DOS'ing someone. My response was "Why use 100mbit when I play with 50Gbit/s at work?" :p

34 minutes ago, sc302 said:

Write down your mac so you can change it if needed with a new or existing router. That way you don't have to have the isp involved.  

I did. My ISP is actually pretty chill.

 

DDWRT seems to have fixed it.

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1 minute ago, Circaflex said:

Glad to hear, wish it could been something tried much earlier ;)

 

 

Well, I wanted to rule as much out as possible. Plus, I planned on upgrading anyways. I wasn't sure this would fix it. I don't see how it just randomly stopped working.

key renewal for what?  Your wifi group key??  Why are you looking at those sorts of settings... Just leave them at default... All you should be worried about is that your wpa2 aes with good PSK!!

 

As to why the native firmware would just freeze up for no reason - because the devices really prob never meant for anyone on a 100/100 connection that actually uses it ;)  I saw your downloads going the other day when you let me remote in..  Your typical user surfing his porn and reading is email doesn't tax the device like that..

21 minutes ago, BudMan said:

key renewal for what?  Your wifi group key??  Why are you looking at those sorts of settings... Just leave them at default... All you should be worried about is that your wpa2 aes with good PSK!!

 

As to why the native firmware would just freeze up for no reason - because the devices really prob never meant for anyone on a 100/100 connection that actually uses it ;)  I saw your downloads going the other day when you let me remote in..  Your typical user surfing his porn and reading is email doesn't tax the device like that..

Shhh... Did you happen to look at my HDs on my computer? :p Strange though, I've been downloading like this, even harder, and it didn't crap out on me. At one point, I was hitting my xfer cap of like 15MB/s from my SeedBox.

I have no interest in what you were actually doing, I just saw lots of files downloading in filezilla.

 

It might not of been specific high level of downloading causing the problem but just accumulation of traffic and sessions.  You would be surprised at how low the session tables can be in some of these soho routers native firmware.. Even though they quite often have decent amounts of memory..  They can have very limited of it towards session tables, they can have very long time outs on sessions, etc.  dd-wrt for sure does a better job of this.

 

Now that you have dd-wrt running, hit it hard for a few days lots of stuff in and out of the network and see how it goes.

4 hours ago, BudMan said:

I have no interest in what you were actually doing, I just saw lots of files downloading in filezilla.

 

It might not of been specific high level of downloading causing the problem but just accumulation of traffic and sessions.  You would be surprised at how low the session tables can be in some of these soho routers native firmware.. Even though they quite often have decent amounts of memory..  They can have very limited of it towards session tables, they can have very long time outs on sessions, etc.  dd-wrt for sure does a better job of this.

 

Now that you have dd-wrt running, hit it hard for a few days lots of stuff in and out of the network and see how it goes.

Sounds good. I just find it strange, oh well. I'll still be grabbing the switch/WAP. I may end up buying another WAP at a later time. Give my garage some WiFi.

 

So, as for the conclusion.

 

Essentially, my router couldn't handle my abusive downloads with its stock firmware. Upgrading to DDWRT seems to have fixed its stability issue. However, for the next week or so, I'll be beating the living hell out of it to see if I can force it to do it again.

 

I'd like to thank Circaflex, BudMan, Jared-, and sc302 for the help and encouragement to step a little out of my comfort zone. I'm glad it worked out this time. If I could give out stickers, you'd all get one :p

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