On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 5:15 AM, <ven...@billoblog.com> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Jun 2016, Chris Murphy wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I have a super annoying problem that is not Fedora specific, but it's >> been driving me nuts for a few weeks. Any idea for a more appropriate >> forum to post this in is as useful as an idea what's going on or next >> steps. >> >> [snip] > > > > I think this is a problem that comes up with Linksys routers in general, not > just the WRT600N. It used to happen to me with an older Linksys device, and > I went through the "try changing the MTU, try changing the firmware, try > resetting to factory..." etc. > > All that stuff. Sometimes it would work for awhile, and sometimes it > wouldn't. If you go to the Linksys forums, it always seems to boil down to > bad firmware -- whether ma nufacturere or dd-wrt for any number of models of > products from this brand. > > The only thing I ever found that seemed to work for one person (it didn't > work for me), was to shield cables or move the router away from the cable > modem. The claim was that it was electrical noise: > > http://www.speedguide.net/articles/router-speed-drop-solved-1885 > > Other explanations I have seen include: > > 1) You are dropping a lot of packets because of noise and the router > automatically drops down to lower bandwidth when that happens (my old DSL > router did this all the time back in the day because I had a noisy phone > line) > > 2) You are in an area where there is congestion on a particular channel > (e.g. you live in an apartment and all your neighbors are simultaneously > downloading porn and playing World of Warcraft 24 hours a day) > > And, I have to admit, when I looked at my router, it did follow a pattern of > dropping increasing numbers of packets before it crumped. > > But mostly it was just Linksys/Cisco consumer product issues. > > See: > > http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=419398&sid=26a65103ddffd19c3588011d1a051faf > http://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/Linksys-WRT600N-Losing-Download-Speed-it-appears/m-p/316019#M166240 > > other models: > > https://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/WRT1900AC-dropping-2-4ghz-connection/td-p/827700 > https://community.linksys.com/t5/Wireless-Routers/WRT-1900-AC-Wi-Fi-Speed-Drops-Significantly-Requiring-Reboot/td-p/970227/page/3
Like I mentioned though, this happens with Intel NUC wireless directly connecting to the AP. The WRT600N isn't involved at all. -- Chris Murphy -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
