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kinchyuk · 28-01-2010, 23:45

Right, I've just about had it with my VM-provided WGR614v9 router. Seems to be at least once a day - usually during the evening - throughput on wireless grinds to an absolute snails pace. Ping times to the router go through the roof, download speed goes down to sub 400kbit/s, and it's totally unusable.

Power cycling the router and everything goes back to normal, usually for around 24 hours. Back to getting around 9.8Mbit/s on a 10Mbit/s service of an evening.

It's on a fixed wireless channel, so it's not a reboot causing a change of channel that's making it all work again. And yes, I upgraded the firmware a while back. Before then it was even more atrocious, consistently locking up at the first sniff of high-ish traffic or a lot of ports being mapped. And don't even get me started on what happens when you have a mix of static and dynamic assigned addresses and happen to map a port to a static IP..

Anyway, tech aside.. I'd rather not spend two hours on the phone to a scripted 1st line 'tech' in India (no disrespect, but you know what I mean - and yes I know there are some very good people out there, but being told to turn it off and on again and move my laptop a bit closer to the router when you've got more than 20 years IP engineering experience is frustrating to say the least!). I can list many reasons why it's a woefully underpowered router, but how can I translate that into 'can you send me one with a bit more oomph?'

Of course I could just bite the bullet and buy an Airport Extreme.. but seeing as this damn lump of useless plastic is technically part of the service VM provide I thought I'd give this a go first.

28-01-2010, 23:45	#1
kinchyuk cf.member Join Date: Nov 2009 Posts: 41	WGR614v9 router woes Right, I've just about had it with my VM-provided WGR614v9 router. Seems to be at least once a day - usually during the evening - throughput on wireless grinds to an absolute snails pace. Ping times to the router go through the roof, download speed goes down to sub 400kbit/s, and it's totally unusable. Power cycling the router and everything goes back to normal, usually for around 24 hours. Back to getting around 9.8Mbit/s on a 10Mbit/s service of an evening. It's on a fixed wireless channel, so it's not a reboot causing a change of channel that's making it all work again. And yes, I upgraded the firmware a while back. Before then it was even more atrocious, consistently locking up at the first sniff of high-ish traffic or a lot of ports being mapped. And don't even get me started on what happens when you have a mix of static and dynamic assigned addresses and happen to map a port to a static IP.. Anyway, tech aside.. I'd rather not spend two hours on the phone to a scripted 1st line 'tech' in India (no disrespect, but you know what I mean - and yes I know there are some very good people out there, but being told to turn it off and on again and move my laptop a bit closer to the router when you've got more than 20 years IP engineering experience is frustrating to say the least!). I can list many reasons why it's a woefully underpowered router, but how can I translate that into 'can you send me one with a bit more oomph?' Of course I could just bite the bullet and buy an Airport Extreme.. but seeing as this damn lump of useless plastic is technically part of the service VM provide I thought I'd give this a go first.