Connection Limits

RazorRamen · Post by **RazorRamen** » Tue Sep 06, 2011 9:14 pm

I have a TP-LINK TL-WR1043ND and live with 3 roommates. So there are 4 active users on the network. Some of the roommates download things quite a bit and it seems to be overloading the router. I've heard that reducing the connection limits and timeouts should help with this. I was wondering if there was a general consensus on the settings for this router or just a general idea on what I should set these numbers to? Thanks.

Post by **pbix** » Wed Sep 07, 2011 5:04 am

The TL-WR1043ND is a pretty capable router so I am skeptical that 4 guys are 'overloading' it. Why do you think is it overloaded?

The default connection limit of 4096 might be a little low already so I would not recommend you lower it further.

RazorRamen · Post by **RazorRamen** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 3:27 am

The connection drops out several times a day, the router disappears from available connections and comes back after a minute or so. This wasn't an issue until the last month or so when a new roommate moved in who downloads quite a bit. Is there something else that could be causing this?

Post by **hnl_dk** » Thu Sep 08, 2011 6:43 am

RazorRamen wrote:The connection drops out several times a day, the router disappears from available connections and comes back after a minute or so. This wasn't an issue until the last month or so when a new roommate moved in who downloads quite a bit. Is there something else that could be causing this?

Try to login to the router to check "Uptime". My router reboots about once a day with 1.4.0, with 1.4.1 it reboots almost constantly.

Post by **pbix** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 5:45 am

The behavior described does sound like a router rebooting. What version of Gargoyle are you using? If the uptime figure keeps resetting then that is confirmation that it is rebooting.

To get more information login use SSH (ie putty) to log into your router and run 'logread -f'' Just leave that running for a day and it may output an error message that will be helpful. Especially the messages at the end just before it reboots. Post the results here and I will take a look.

Post by **hnl_dk** » Fri Sep 09, 2011 3:06 pm

pbix wrote:...
To get more information login use SSH (ie putty) to log into your router and run 'logread -f'' Just leave that running for a day and it may output an error message that will be helpful. Especially the messages at the end just before it reboots. Post the results here and I will take a look.

I will update to 1.4.1 tomorrow and run 'logread -f''

Post by **hnl_dk** » Mon Sep 12, 2011 7:13 am

hnl_dk wrote:...
I will update to 1.4.1 tomorrow and run 'logread -f''

I did not come to upgrade the firmware, will see if I am able to do so one of the next days.
But...
It looks like Gargoyle does not like my Access Point.
With my Access Point turned on, I get this every 2-3 seconds.

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2011-09-09 22:26:51	Daemon.Info	192.168.254.1	Sep  9 22:26:49 hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:08:54:ad:89:79 IEEE 802.11: deauthenticated due to local deauth request
2011-09-09 22:26:52	Daemon.Info	192.168.254.1	Sep  9 22:26:49 hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:08:54:ad:89:79 IEEE 802.11: authenticated
2011-09-09 22:26:52	Daemon.Info	192.168.254.1	Sep  9 22:26:49 hostapd: wlan0: STA 00:08:54:ad:89:79 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid 1)

After having turned off this Access Point, the router has not rebooted anymore.

So now I will need to think about what I am going to do about my Access Point. I would prefer not to need to buy a new one at the moment.

PS: I used this approach instead... http://www.gargoyle-router.com/phpbb/vi ... f=7&t=1736
Would be nice if it would be an option in Gargoyle

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