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uTorrent with Buffalo WHR-G54S WiFi Problem
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swap0
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2. January 2008 @ 20:20 |
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I just bought a new Buffalo WHR-G54S to replace my old WiFi Router. It is very stable but whenever I leave it overnight with uTorrent on, I couldn't access the web the next day. My internet connection is still on, uTorrent is still running and uploading and downloading files, I could use VNC to access other computer connected to WHR-G54S router, but none of the computers could get on the web, not even access the WHR-G54S Management interface. So I ended up powering off the router and restarting again to get everything to normal again.
Does anyone have the same problem as me? Anyone have any solution to this problem?
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7. January 2008 @ 09:00 |
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You probably just need to forward the torrent ports in the Buffalo
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Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules *** |
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swap0
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7. January 2008 @ 10:35 |
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hi.. I already forward the port needed for my utorrent to work and the download speed is good. but the router still hult the normal internet browsing at least once a day. I don't know whats wrong with it. I email the company and they suggest that I should flash the firmware. So I'm going to try that soon. But I think I might have to get another brand if this keeps up. Any suggestion the router I should use for Bittorrenting?
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7. January 2008 @ 10:54 |
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The Buffalo has a good rep for bittorrenting.
This may be a problem with too many open connections.
Bittorrent puts a lot of stress on routers and it is generally advisable to limit max connections to under 200.
In uTorrent this is at Options/Preferences/Bittorrent as Global maximum number of connections.
At the uTorrent forum, they do talk of using DD-WRT firmware (I do not know what that is) with the Buffalo routers.
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7. January 2008 @ 11:00 |
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I have the much-maligned version 5 of the Linksys WRT54G, and due to the latest firmware it no longer suffers from problems due to torrenting. Anyways, i'm hoping the WHR-G54S are indeed fine with torrenting as i've just bought a couple of them to replace my trusty WRT54G (i didn't/don't want to go down the DD-WRT route personally, either on the WRT54G or on the buffalo's, there looks to be too much going on in DD-WRT firmware for my needs). But try the suggested utorrent tweak, and see if you'ew way behind in the Buffalo's firmware
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Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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swap0
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7. January 2008 @ 20:45 |
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12. January 2008 @ 16:23 |
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i've spent 2 frustrating days with DD-WRT on my 2 new WHR-G54S's and a lot of time wasted scouring the DD-WRT forums. Basically these are great routers with the stock firmware but i bought 2 with the intent of connecting both together with 'WDS' to give better range upstairs (my house is Victorian and has 50ft thick walls and ceilings but my old trusty WRT54G v5 covers everywhere except one PC and one PC that has spotty connectivity). After much wasted time constantly reconfiguring and restarting various PC's that lose connection intermittently, and much wasted surfing (made worse by the unstable internet connection that DD-WRT is giving), it seems that WPA is not yet fully stable over WDS (the whole point of messing with the DD-WRT firmware was to supposedly make WDS work over WPA as the stock firmware doesn't allow it (even though i only bought the darn things as i'd read that the stock firmware did support it). Can't run ethernet cables thru the house as the whole house is full of asbestos hence why i mess with wifi, but i digress.
So... it looks like i won't be giving too much help here after all as i'm close to flashing both Buffalo's back to stock firmware and RMA'ing them for a refund and reinstating the trusty WRT54G which only needs a reboot every few months or so/if at all. I'd rather have something totally stable than something that crashes intermittently
You may have success with just the one router under DD-WRT, it isn't all that hard once you get into the setup screens (but only as long as you have a spare router to hand in case you can't then get back on the internet to either scour for info or flash back to the original firmware etc etc). Imagine how annoyed (and stuck) i'd be now if i'd have also flashed my WRT54G to DD-WRT. What a pain in the backside this all was.
/somehow avoids smashing the Buffalo routers
edit- more messing with configuration and i think it's stable now, ended up using the bizarre but very useful 'static DHCP' features, since i assigned statics to all the important computers, none of them have disconnected intermittently. So.. i might stick with these Buffalo's and with DD-WRT after all, in which case i might be able to help out on this utorrent issue of yours after all. My bittorrent pc now has a static DHCP so can continue testing the port forwarding of the Buffalo's now..
To ease torrents caning the router i have now upped the P2P Maximum Ports from the default 512 to 2048 (max allowed in the WHR-G54S is 4096), and obviously you have to check/amend the connection limits in the torrent application (i use Bittorrent myself) (no more slowdowns when using torrents now)
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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12. January 2008 @ 18:48 |
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Cracked it...
found various clues ie DD-WRT forum posts, and a few wiki pages, here's one that really helped - http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown
The P2P Maximum Ports are happy at the 2048 setting, also changed the TCP & UDP Timeout values to 90 seconds (from the default of 3600 seconds). In Bittorrent 6.0 i've set Global connections to 200. Now my torrenting on the Buffalos is virtually the same as how it was on the WRT54G (though i used 5.0.7 of bittorrent on the WRT54G), except i can now get decent internet performance even when my internet connection is busy torrenting. Nice.. Hope some of this helps with your utorrent question
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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swap0
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18. January 2008 @ 17:56 |
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Hi..
I try both DD-WRT and TOMATO firmwire on my WHR-G54S on basic AP router setup and they both have the same problem: The connection would die after a couple of hour of use and my computer can't find the connection. I need to reboot the Router for my computers to reconnect again.
I had UTorrent and emule running at the same time and did everything that http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Router_Slowdown suggest to do except that I also turned on the QoS.
Can anyone help me out. (The original factor firmware would at least stay connected and I would only not being able to surf the internet ut still keep the downloads going.)
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18. January 2008 @ 18:06 |
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I wasn't exaggerating when i said it took me 4days to get my Buffalo's stable. Many wiki pages, and many forum posts and even more googling was needed, DD-WRT is brilliant, but bloody hell do you have to fight to find info on the many options within the setup screens...
My setup works perfectly, except for torrenting, well torrenting works a treat, but it just takes over the entire internet connection so that none of the other computers can get a look-in; i've tweaked everything over and over but i got fed up in the end; what i do now is only do torrenting when no-one else wants to use the internet; ie torrenting is stable, it just takes over (i have only got a measly 512k line though). To be fair, the Linksys router was the same, torrenting works fine but takes over. Ho hum.
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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swap0
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18. January 2008 @ 22:53 |
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To tell you the truth, I think a wireless network just isn't built for bittorrent right now. I mean I had no problem when I just hook up directly with the multi-port modem my isp provided. I also tried one wifi ap per computer setup also works fine. Or maybe get a more bittorrent-centric router it there is one...
Well... I'll just keep trying I guess..
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24. May 2008 @ 15:27 |
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A brief update, my 2 Buffalo's stay up and stable for months at a time (excepting the odd oopsie where the power lead gets accidentally pulled out). I can't offer any more help/insight on the torrent side of things as no longer use torrenting on this connection, but for normal use DD-WRT has proven to be 100% stable and reliable. Since my previous post none of the computers or xboxes are on wireless, instead they are all ethernet-connected and wireless is only used between the 2 Buffalo which are connected together via WDS.
Upstairs computers & xboxes are ethernet-connected (mostly via D-Link switches) to the upstairs Buffalo, the downstairs computers are ethernet-connected to the downstairs Buffalo, which hangs off the cable modem. All devices are using Static DHCP which is brilliant as i no longer have to remember what IP address is assigned to any of the devices.
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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fasttoon
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20. July 2008 @ 04:03 |
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I've had mine for about a year now and it works perfectly on everything, browsing, p2p, networking, gaming consoles, etc. Changed firmware the day I got it. Using dd-wrt 23 sp2 standard, had someone look over the settings and after changing some settings I have no problems.
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4. September 2008 @ 13:22 |
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Another brief update on my DD-WRT setup, I've just dug out my old & unused trusty Linksys WRT54G (version 5) that was always 100% stable on stock firmware, and have flashed it with the micro version of DD-WRT (i stuck with v23 SP2 as spent hours reading about all the problems with various v24 versions), and added it as a 3rd 'node' in my WDS setup so i can play media from a spare room that's unreachable by ethernet.
It has an old xbox attached to it so basically the Linksys is acting as a gaming adapter, but with far far better firmware.
The Buffalo's are still going strong for months at a time.
The good thing about WDS is that this 3rd one will only be switched on when needed (not often) without disrupting any other connections in the house.
edit- there's another DD-WRT thread here - http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/685002
Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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swap0
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4. September 2008 @ 21:05 |
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Hey.. I got a problem..
I bricked my buffalo WHR-G54S router..
I try to flash it back to the older verison of the stuck firmware that isn't encrypted, but somehow the flashing process was complete. So I now have an unusable router.
Do you have any idea of how to unbrick a router?
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5. September 2008 @ 05:18 |
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Main PC ~ Intel C2Q Q6600 (G0 Stepping)/Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS3/2GB Crucial Ballistix PC2-8500/Zalman CNPS9700/Antec 900/Corsair HX 620W
Network ~ DD-WRT ~ 2node WDS-WPA2/AES ~ Buffalo WHR-G54S. 3node WPA2/AES ~ WRT54GS v6 (inc. WEP BSSID), WRT54G v2, WRT54G2 v1. *** Forum Rules ***
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