Problems with Router

[John.D]

Hey,

I've had my router for a couple of years now, it's a Linksys WRT54GS. Running the internet is fine on both my desktop which it's wired to, and my laptop which uses the internet wirelessly, but the problem lies with applications, particularly games. Taking Call of Duty 4 as an example, I find that when refreshing a server list it'll say it's picking up over a thousand servers, but it only displays 5 or 6. Once I get into a server, which is usually after 2 or 3 timeouts during connecting, it runs fine though. It leads me to believe its a port problem, but i've been on portforward and set it up as it says. Was wondering if anyone knew?

 

[TheCrow]

I have pretty much the same problem on my Linksys WRT55GS. After a lot of research (and i know all about networking, etc) ive come to realise that most linksys routers are a POS.

Try connecting without your router and see if u have the same probelm.

 

[John.D]

Na I don't, I know that for a fact.

 

[neil_g]

I have pretty much the same problem on my Linksys WRT55GS. After a lot of research (and i know all about networking, etc) ive come to realise that most linksys routers are a POS.

linksys is the home brand range from cisco. who are without doubt THE networking hardware company. before we switched out all of our Linksys routers at our stores with full blown Cisco units we had no hardware issues (excluding the odd firmware wipe caused by store staff rebooting the unit repeatedly trying to get their internet up).

are you gaming via ethernet cable or wireless? is it just COD4? what sort of ping, upload speed and download speed do you get via speedtest.net?

 

[John.D]

Well my internet runs fine and download speeds are normal, it's just applications mainly. COD4, Dawn of War disconnects from the lobby repeatedly and most servers you can't connect to. Problem is solved when I stop using the router and just connect normally (as in a wire from my gaming pc straight to the modem) but obviously this gets rid of the network and I can't connect to the net on my laptop.

 

[Blonkster]

Well my internet runs fine and download speeds are normal, it's just applications mainly. COD4, Dawn of War disconnects from the lobby repeatedly and most servers you can't connect to. Problem is solved when I stop using the router and just connect normally (as in a wire from my gaming pc straight to the modem) but obviously this gets rid of the network and I can't connect to the net on my laptop.

Try temporailly turning off encryption at both ends.
Try another channel number, may be clashing with lots of neighbours routers.
Try new router firmware.

Good luck
Blonkster

 

[TheCrow]

linksys is the home brand range from cisco. who are without doubt THE networking hardware company. before we switched out all of our Linksys routers at our stores with full blown Cisco units we had no hardware issues (excluding the odd firmware wipe caused by store staff rebooting the unit repeatedly trying to get their internet up).

are you gaming via ethernet cable or wireless? is it just COD4? what sort of ping, upload speed and download speed do you get via speedtest.net?

That may be the case but if they were so good millions of people world wide wouldn't have hacked most of the routers to put liinux on them! (google open wrt for more info).

Mine has been nothing but trouble since i got it, and the 2 before it. I bought linksys as they were supposed to be the best, but from personal experience and all other reviews from genuine users i have read they are quite simply crap!

 

[neil_g]

That may be the case but if they were so good millions of people world wide wouldn't have hacked most of the routers to put liinux on them! (google open wrt for more info).

Mine has been nothing but trouble since i got it, and the 2 before it. I bought linksys as they were supposed to be the best, but from personal experience and all other reviews from genuine users i have read they are quite simply crap!

well we had 30 WAG54G (if i remember rightly) all running fine, if theyre that crap why did we never have any major issues? just because lots of people have moved them to linux doesnt necessarily mean theyre rubbish.

to the OP - not sure how much youll know about this but presumably youre using a non-wireless router/modem then connected to a wireless router? are both devices trying to issue DHCP addresses or something silly like that? any reason why youre using 2 devices?

 

[who?]

People slap linux on them because there is a port available for the cpu in them and it allows extra functionality. Many other brands are more tied down and much more difficult to customise (lets not even mention the companies that put out physically different hardware under the same part number). Nobody went out to mod them because they were crap, they did it because it was a good target platform and gave them the capabilities they wanted.

for the OP - Sounds like you have not got all the ports set up as you need. Find a mate who is playing the same games and see what they have open and forwarded. Check the filter and firewall type rules that you have set up. esp. inbound connection blocking.
Look at your logs (turn on full logging) and see if there are packets coming in that are being rejected.


I'm not really up on the model numbers but I'm guessing that you have a cable internet and you are plugging a cable modem into either the router or the games machine direct?

 

[kwiksand]

linksys is the home brand range from cisco. who are without doubt THE networking hardware company. before we switched out all of our Linksys routers at our stores with full blown Cisco units we had no hardware issues (excluding the odd firmware wipe caused by store staff rebooting the unit repeatedly trying to get their internet up).

While this is true, I've heard the actual link between Cisco and Linksys is minimal, and shouldn't be any representation of quality. That being said the WRT54G and WRT350N with DDWRT or OpenWRT on them have been phenomenal. I only wish the WRT600N was as big a success.