Comments on: Here’s hoping! http://blog.xcski.com/2005/04/29/heres-hoping Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place. Fri, 16 May 2008 10:51:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Mike http://blog.xcski.com/2005/04/29/heres-hoping#comment-692 Mike Sat, 30 Apr 2005 13:48:06 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/04/29/heres-hoping#comment-692 I was having similar problems with my SMC Barricade - if I was BTing it would cave under the pressure and stop doing anything useful whatsoever. Sometimes it lasted 15 minutes, sometimes it lasted half a day. I eventually just replaced its router function with a (noisy :( ) PC running FreeBSD and use it only as a cheapie little switched hub. Very disappointing, and makes me leery of using the cheap DSL routers again. I was having similar problems with my SMC Barricade - if I was BTing it would cave under the pressure and stop doing anything useful whatsoever. Sometimes it lasted 15 minutes, sometimes it lasted half a day. I eventually just replaced its router function with a (noisy :( ) PC running FreeBSD and use it only as a cheapie little switched hub. Very disappointing, and makes me leery of using the cheap DSL routers again.

]]> By: Matt McLeod http://blog.xcski.com/2005/04/29/heres-hoping#comment-691 Matt McLeod Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:59:56 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/04/29/heres-hoping#comment-691 I'm still running the Linksys firmware and haven't had any such problem. I did occasionally find I had to power cycle the unit during the summer, but that was maybe once a month. Hasn't been an issue since the weather has cooled down. Do sometimes consider installing a third-party firmware on it, but as it Just Works I'm not seeing much reason to do so. Would be more interested in doing something like that with an NSLU2 some day. I’m still running the Linksys firmware and haven’t had any such problem. I did occasionally find I had to power cycle the unit during the summer, but that was maybe once a month. Hasn’t been an issue since the weather has cooled down.

Do sometimes consider installing a third-party firmware on it, but as it Just Works I’m not seeing much reason to do so. Would be more interested in doing something like that with an NSLU2 some day.

]]> By: rich http://blog.xcski.com/2005/04/29/heres-hoping#comment-690 rich Sat, 30 Apr 2005 04:37:29 +0000 http://xcski.com/blogs/pt/2005/04/29/heres-hoping#comment-690 Mine's been doing that lately (today was particularly frustrating), and I'm running dd-wrt already. I'm not sure even sveasoft will fix it, because dd-wrt is based on sveasoft, but at least there's the option to poke around and fix it. I haven't had a chance to figure out what's going on yet (today was a duplicate packet extravaganza, even though nothing was getting to the clients, and then just started working) but I know it'd be harder to figure out if I <i>couldn't</i> ssh in. Mine’s been doing that lately (today was particularly frustrating), and I’m running dd-wrt already. I’m not sure even sveasoft will fix it, because dd-wrt is based on sveasoft, but at least there’s the option to poke around and fix it. I haven’t had a chance to figure out what’s going on yet (today was a duplicate packet extravaganza, even though nothing was getting to the clients, and then just started working) but I know it’d be harder to figure out if I couldn’t ssh in.

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