From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E083138010 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:09:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE33421C034; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:08:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f175.google.com (mail-wi0-f175.google.com [209.85.212.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A823621C060 for ; Thu, 1 Nov 2012 00:06:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wi0-f175.google.com with SMTP id hq4so3666317wib.10 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:06:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=LaCMdfuOR/y1KEjvfKyXg/qduBua3mR+4tDHjqS1+Wk=; b=uKzguSUoH3NifukQIm/VTiMPNyYtJUEiP9i9xzV96ok9ql6SUCfO4xoXjRLCJMfW3A hSIrrgn7pNY07Uf/rNikdXUUjAghLf9BaIJiWJ4KSuX+lM3Xrhehp8lD04F2BTNI2Q3Z YF8HXh/SBykWXu68GtIYhVvimBp9y90FtCUlp6KOHgYEVZJbXJKHAQ5twwCZdJih0Ukg Ukc3Fdy1W/HFpc4xVfD3WZfsIn5Wle0DuLnQX6Ox9NETIXqA7Ax280RRdyWmljVHaXji Q6zj/iujp08DcZxTTiNNFckc9G0AtlSJ3vJ+IhGUrRNFvY+JTMKwE0f+x0fHFGANokpW 4LfQ== Received: by 10.180.8.41 with SMTP id o9mr5259505wia.3.1351728410642; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:06:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from khamul.example.com (196-210-114-11.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.114.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fg6sm12340483wib.3.2012.10.31.17.06.47 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:06:49 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 02:04:45 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] wireless dropping connections Message-ID: <20121101020445.34209ad5@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20121030132943.41800e1a@khamul.example.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.1 (GTK+ 2.24.13; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5f109e45-77ff-456a-9600-24278c077cec X-Archives-Hash: 97d8ce896fc0066f4629be8c34e7c7d7 On Wed, 31 Oct 2012 15:01:26 -0500 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 6:29 AM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > I'm using wicd-1.7.2.4-r1 and a NetGear DGN2200M v2 wireless AP > > (802.11n) > > > > Several times a day, this thing just drops wireless. > > Has it always done this? If not, did anything change around the time > the problem started? Upgrading drivers/kernel, firmware on router, > change of internet connection speed, usage patters, etc. It's done it since new (which was recently) and nothing else changed. The XBox, tablets, phones and the missus' Windows laptop all show the same problem - so it's not Gentoo :-) Wireless was always stable on all my previous b/g routers, but this one is n and has been doing it out of the box. I switched it from channel 8 to channel 1 yesterday and now find it disconnects more often. Next step I think is to try 6 and 11 in that order whilst making the local hardware store owner weathly by buying trunking and moving the device > I had a D-Link router that would reboot itself every time there were > more than 100 or so connections. That meant any time something like > bittorrent was used, it would reboot every 10 or 15 minutes until the > network traffic died down. The same router would melt down under the > load from 10mbps network traffic. > > I have a Buffalo router running OpenWrt whose network disconnects > randomly, including wired network. The box doesn't reboot but > networking gets reset or something. Usually happens once or twice an > hour. Stock firmware and DD-WRT also suffer from widely-reported > disconnect issues, so this may be another defective design... I've seen issues like that many times too. It used to be I could go down to stores at work and book out a nice shiny new Cisco with pro-grade wireless chips and drivers, no question asked. Those things are rock solid and refuse to die, we have 1000s in the field that have never been touched for years. I can still book stuff out, but lately it's a Billion I'd get :-( > And I have a high-power microwave oven that kills all wifi connections > in the entire house every time it is used. The food comes out nice and > hot, though. :) :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com