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Possibly borked router. Help :(

  • 07-06-2006 10:32pm
    #1
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭


    Hello everyone.

    Yesterday, I discovered Torrents. Sounds great? Well I think I ended up borking my router :(

    The story goes like this: My router is one supplied by my ISP, Esat BT, a ZyXEL Prestige 623R-T1. Using ADSL.

    A few months ago I had tried port forwarding for various reasons and found it's PF capabilites too limited, some of my software required a direct internet connection. So I found out how to turn it into a modem type device and did so.

    Back then I noticed that doing some things, like allowing BearShare to act as an Ultrapeer, would cause the Prestige to crash, and have to be turned off and on again before it would function again. I aslo began to notice the occasional line drop. Nothing worth mentioning if I avoided certain things like running a P2P ultrapeer.

    Fast forward to last night, when I jumped into a swarm for a 4GB (that's right 4 Gig) torrent. All went well for about 15 hours and I got about 900MB of it.

    But at about 5PM today, I noticed that my download speeds had effectively collapsed, down to 0-2KB/s, but my upload speed had held up at 6-10KB/s, half of the 16/20K it had been holding. Also I noticed that web surfing was becoming slower and more difficult, as was seeking multiplayer server lists on my favourite game. Tried a few other things as well like updating my virus scanner over the Internet, the update engine stalled and died before it could finish a 48KB update!

    After about an hour, I left the swarm, and tried to surf webpages again. No better. So I restarted the computer and the router. No joy.

    Then I started to ping various websites, google, yahoo, boards, esat.net and so on, and I got packet loss in most from 25% to 75%. So I unplugged the router for an hour, started it up again and tried it in various modes. Ethernet, USB connections, in both bridged and routing modes. No imporvement.

    And that's pretty much the way things have been going since 6PM this evening, slow speed, packet loss, difficult surfing with some pages taking several tries to load, loading incomplete or not loading at all, and nonexistant file transfers.

    ======================

    Just before I take this tempermental heap of junk and throw it out the window, is there anything at all I can do to breathe new life into it? I seem to have the newest firmware so that doesn't look like it. Or is it time to get something new?

    If so, what would you guys reccommend - I need DMZ/bridge/modem capability whatever to give my PC a direct, non NAT'ed Internet connection, if possible and as much stability and reliability as can be.


Comments

  • #2
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    By any chance your ISP don't have transfer limits and dropped you to this dreadful speed as you've reached your quota. Only an idea.

    Why don't you try restoring default settings, or just re-set up the router from scratch after doing a hardware reset?


  • #3
    SeanW
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,167 ✭✭✭SeanW


    Nope, this is my first time to try and mega huge file transferring. I didn't even have a P2P app installed until last night.

    Tried a hardware reset hours ago, also, the "Web Configurator" (the control panel type thing that you access by typing 192.168.1.1 in IE) still functions but each page takes several minutes to load, a job supposed to take a second or two.


  • #4
    Webmonkey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,579 ✭✭✭Webmonkey


    Maybe your ISP is just having problems. Might not have anything to do with your configuration and most likely hasn't either as you've done the reset.


  • #5
    irlrobins
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,541 ✭✭✭irlrobins


    SeanW wrote:
    Tried a hardware reset hours ago, also, the "Web Configurator" (the control panel type thing that you access by typing 192.168.1.1 in IE) still functions but each page takes several minutes to load, a job supposed to take a second or two.

    If internet connection was slow but connection to router web page was fine that would indicate an ISP side problem. But the fact that connectivity within the LAN is also slow indicates something not kosher on that. That's what I'm thinking anyway.

    Possible problems:

    1) Router borked.
    2) Connection from PC to router not functioning properly. Are you connecting to it using a ethernet cable or wireless?
    3) PC has become infected with spyware that slows down your overall connection.

    my 2c


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