Terrible performance Leicester (LE3) - Page 21

qasdfdsaq · 06-02-2011, 23:03

Lol, yeah this does just keep getting better... What make/model was your router philce?

philce · 06-02-2011, 23:08

The trusty DIR-615

qasdfdsaq · 06-02-2011, 23:11

Shame, good 'ol box those are. Tried a recovery mode firmware flash/reset? As long as you get a flashing orange light power while powering on with the reset button held down there might still be hope...

P.S. If it's running dd-wrt I know there's a "bug" where it doesn't behave too well when your cable modem goes down or needs restarting. Normally you'll need to reboot both the modem and router to get things back online, but I've written a script so you don't need to. Basically it automatically monitors the WAN interface and resets just that without having to reset the whole device when neccessary.

philce · 06-02-2011, 23:28

no nothing im afraid, just the blue light on the right hand side.

Reset button does nothing, even held down when powered up.

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No not DD-WRT had problems with a wireless printer and the tech support guys there wouldn't help me cos it wasn't stock firmware. They replaced the printer in the end, but I never got round to putting WRT back on!
I remember the rebooting problem with the modem going offline, to be honest I had to do the same with the stock firmware.

Will VM replace it as it's theirs?

Chrysalis · 06-02-2011, 23:52

I need it as I have to use DMZ workaround to have everything working

qasdfdsaq · 06-02-2011, 23:59

If it's <2 years old it should be under warranty still, so yes they should replace it. Assuming they supplied it of course. But at less than Â£10 each on Ebay, postage cost to send it back would probably make up half the price of a new one.

pip08456 · 07-02-2011, 00:11

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

If it's <2 years old it should be under warranty still, so yes they should replace it. Assuming they supplied it of course. But at less than Â£10 each on Ebay, postage cost to send it back would probably make up half the price of a new one.

I had mine replaced a couple of months ago. Didn't have to send it back, just posted on VM's forum there was a smell of burning from it and it had stopped working.

Got a new one sent in about 3 days.

Chrysalis · 07-02-2011, 00:15

am back on dir615 now with DMZ

so can ping myself again LOL

still 28-30 so maintaining that 90%.

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Originally Posted by pip08456

I had mine replaced a couple of months ago. Didn't have to send it back, just posted on VM's forum there was a smell of burning from it and it had stopped working.

Got a new one sent in about 3 days.

yeah VM will likely send a new one I expect.

qasdfdsaq · 07-02-2011, 00:28

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I need it as I have to use DMZ workaround to have everything working

At least everything does work when set up correctly

philce · 09-02-2011, 20:08

Right, so the CEO's office decided to put me onto 50Mb to try to resolve the upload speed issues until they sort the network out in the area.

To be honest Legacy was better!!!

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This is with a new Superhub btw.

qasdfdsaq · 09-02-2011, 20:21

50mb was never going to help with upload speed, though it might with download. We all know upload capacity on overlay is considerably less than legacy...

Chrysalis · 09-02-2011, 20:23

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

50mb was never going to help with upload speed, though it might with download. We all know upload capacity on overlay is considerably less than legacy...

how it was 22 jan

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/35156914-post233.html

now in terms of things like ssh and web browsing speed, after I disabled hardware tcp checksums on my NIC, VM improved significantly. So with that combined with the VM side improvements I am at the stage now when using ssh at 6.30pm was almost normal (had to watch for jitter to notice it) and right now its noticeable but not severe. Browsing speed is decent now last few days even during peak.

philce · 09-02-2011, 20:47

I was on overlay till Friday last week. It was better than I have now.
I have a 86.24.107.xx ip now, but was on 213.81.69.xx before.

Uploads are ok roughly around 1.4Mb, so better than the 250-300K I was getting. Latency is shot though, browsing is very erratic.

Clearly I have ended up on a crappy UBR.

I only wanted XL, but the guy at the CEO's office said I might as well have 50Mb.

Chrysalis · 09-02-2011, 21:14

speedtest? your graph doesnt suggest poor performance. (at least compared to mine).

philce · 09-02-2011, 22:32

Hmmm the plot thickens.

These suggest things are OK, however browsing is sluggish and I just tried to download a linux distro and I gave up as it was coming down at sub 50k/S?

Weird!