[olug] DD-WRT Router Suggestions?

[Rob Townley]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2009 at 8:59 PM, T. J. Brumfield <enderandrew at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have not looked at the cable modem logs yet. That is a really good idea.

At least you will get a laugh when the support rep says you should not
be looking at 192.168.100.1, it is for cox only.

p.s. if you don't have a 192.168.x.0/24, you may not be able to
connect to 192.168.100.1

>
> -- T. J.
>
> On 12/29/09, Adam Lassek <adam at doubleprime.net> wrote:
>> Have you looked at the logs on the Cable Modem itself? They usually have
>> some sort of web-based interface. When I was having connection issues with
>> Cox, there was some useful information there.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 9:28 PM, T. J. Brumfield
>> <enderandrew at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> I have skipped the router and connected directly to the modem.
>>>
>>> I also build and repair computers fairly often for people on the side.
>>> I've hooked a number of computers up, most of them Linux, and some are
>>> netbooks with SSDs. My main rig is a Phenom II X4 940, overclocked,
>>> with 4 drives in RAID, and 8 gigs of RAM. My machine flies. I don't
>>> think it is my hard drive not able to write fast enough to cache. That
>>> certainly isn't a factor with pings timing out.
>>>
>>> The worst is that it takes 20-30 minutes to talk to someone. I tell
>>> the automated attendant I don't want to go through their automated
>>> troubleshooting (reboot PC, reboot modem, lather, rinse, repeat) but
>>> it puts me on hold for 5 minutes, and then forces me through the
>>> automated troubleshooting none the less.
>>>
>>> Never does it ask what the problem is. It just forces me to go through
>>> the steps, checking to see if my signal from the cable modem drops or
>>> picks up at points to make sure I'm really rebooting stuff. In the end
>>> it asks if I can see a web page, when I say yes, it says it is going
>>> to hang up on me since my problem is solved. Since my problem is
>>> intermittent and slow service, it isn't solved. I tell the automated
>>> assistant I'm not happy, and then it puts me in a hold queue for
>>> another 10 minutes.
>>>
>>> Then a Cox employee tells me they know for a fact it can't possibly be
>>> them, and it must be that I need to defrag.
>>>
>>> When I explain that I'm a friggin' systems engineer, they still insist
>>> that I can't know what I'm talking about.
>>>
>>> I purchased a new cable modem out of my pocket to see if that would
>>> help, and it hasn't. But I did spend $60 to troubleshoot Cox's
>>> problems.
>>>
>>> I tried switching to Qwest briefly out of frustration, but it requires
>>> PPoE authorization. I can't use my router, which I didn't realize when
>>> I signed up for service. I called their support several times telling
>>> them I needed to configure their DSL modem to just be a pass-through
>>> and do the PPoE authorization via my router, and that I'd need my
>>> login and password for the account. Tech support kept insisting there
>>> was no such login, and it didn't exist. But I could see in the DSL
>>> modem config that there was a password (replaced with asterisks of
>>> course). I talked to a friend who was a Qwest employee who did verify
>>> I needed to do PPoE with my router to make it work, but when I called
>>> Qwest back yet again, they still insisted there was no login and
>>> password.
>>>
>>> I hear Verizon might offer their FiOS in town to compete with Qwest's
>>> new FiOS, but I live on the East side of town where neither is
>>> available. So I'm stuck with Cox, and they refuse to help me.
>>>
>>> If there is a better alternative, I'd love to hear it.
>>>
>>> -- T. J. Brumfield
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:09 PM, Kelly Williams
>>> <kellywilliams81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> > Defrag the hard drive wtf. Sorry i read that i know cox would say that
>>> > is
>>> > kinda funny. Have you connected the computer direct to the modem..
>>> >
>>> > Kelly Williams
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 12/23/2009 5:51 PM, T. J. Brumfield wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> I bought a high-end router a year ago, but I'm not 100% happy with it.
>>> >> My internet connection is still slow. Cox refuses to talk to me about
>>> >> performance since a router is involved, and they won't come out to the
>>> >> house to check the signal, even though pages time out all the time.
>>> >> They insist I need to defrag my hard drive.
>>> >>
>>> >> Even though I assume the issue is really on Cox's part, and I've shown
>>> >> I still have trouble with pages timing out when not connected to the
>>> >> router, I wouldn't mind trying to get a better router to get the best
>>> >> possible performance I can get given the circumstances.
>>> >>
>>> >> I purchased a DIR-655, which got rave reviews, is supposed to have a
>>> >> fast processor and do decent QOS, has 4 LAN gigabit ports, and does
>>> >> 802.11n wireless.
>>> >>
>>> >> The question is, can I find an equivalent or better router that
>>> >> supports a Linux firmware (like DD-WRT?)
>>> >>
>>> >> Ideally, I want something with at least 32 megs of RAM for processing,
>>> >> and at least 8 megs of RAM for flash storage. The newest releases of
>>> >> DD-WRT are getting larger than 4 megs. It would have gigabit ports,
>>> >> and 802.11n support.
>>> >>
>>> >> Does anyone know of such a router?
>>> >>
>>> >> -- T. J. Brumfield
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