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Wierd or what...

I've spent this evening trying to sort out why the router goes belly-up after using eDonkey for a while. The problem started a week ago, but since then the occurences were more regular. I just upgraded the firmware an hour ago!!!

I have the BEFSR411 and found a decent forum link with the same problem... and there is another link of info/problems here.

I suppose it goes without saying that updating the firmware is a good idea... at least there are more improvements to the web-config interface. I'll just have to see how long the connection stays up.

Wierd or what...

I've spent this evening trying to sort out why the router goes belly-up after using eDonkey for a while. The problem started a week ago, but since then the occurences were more regular. I just upgraded the firmware an hour ago!!!

I have the BEFSR411 and found a decent forum link with the same problem... and there is another link of info/problems here.

I suppose it goes without saying that updating the firmware is a good idea... at least there are more improvements to the web-config interface. I'll just have to see how long the connection stays up.

When I read it at Broadband.com

I need to put together a perl script to scrape news stories from over the internet and mass submit them to slashdot. It appears everyone does that.

I keep seeing stories on sites like BroadbandReports that much of Japan has cheap-ass DSL, fiber optic, and cable Internet services. It certainly helps that most of Japan's population is densely concentrated, but I guess you're not in one of those areas?

there is a big thread thats been going about this situation over at dslreports.

if you dig a page or two back into the thread quite a few users seemed to have success by using some http tunnelling software so they were on a non throttled port. might just find an answer to your problem in there if ya look

Aaargh. Serves me right for being lazy in my explanation...

What I was getting at is that if you just take a default configuration of your networking, and try to do bandwidth measurements with a remote "bandwidth tester" over a "public" network that has all sorts of hops between you and the test-server, you're likely to get not-so-good performance, and that 900Kbps is not a terribly bad number. As I said before, it depends partly on what doodads might be between the testing PC and the server (inclusive of the equipment on both ends). Poorly configured client PC's over a high-latency network can take a 1.5 Mbps connection and make it look like 400 Kbps...

You can, of course, run a test on a quiet and private network, with all the networking parameters tuned to optimal to get full utilization of your bandwidth.

This touches on some of the issues.

*sigh*

You should check out this website http://www.broadbandreports.com. They have broadband news, info, reviews of providers etc. Its very usefull information.