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[caraig]

So everything's going reasonably well this week. (Yeah, I know, the loneliness thing, that'll always be with me while I'm down here. What the heck can I do about it?) But all in all, I can't complain. The project is coming along with some good direction, and I'm rather pleased with it.


So I have this Linksys router. I've had since, oh, about November or December. But it's had this issue with it. Whenever I try to telnet somewhere, I get trhough fine, but then if I'm idle for even a little bit, and then there's activity on the remote host... I don't see that activity, and I get disconnected. It's extremely frustrating. I'm certain it's the router because this didn't happen before I got it, and it happens with both my PC and Mac.

Anyway, Linksys is telling me a lot of things, everything from they don't support Macs, to changing the MTU settings, to reflashing the firmware. They just told me to reinstall the TCP/IP stacks. Reinstall TCP/IP?! That's silly! The problem isn't with TCP/IP because I don't get this problem within my LAN. Linksys won't take it back, and the warranty has passed. If anyone can give any suggestions for this to work, I'd be greatly appreciative.


Not much else is happening. I've been eating a little more now that I'm not spending insane amounts of time at the lab -- which is good, because I'd been getting charleyhorses when I was waking up in the morning. The weather down here has been really stormy of late, lots of rain -- I love it! It's MUCH nicer than devastatingly meltingly sunny days, and besides, I like storms anyway. It's weather with character.

Not much else to say, so I'll end it here for now. I'm sure some topic worthy of a rant will come up soon. =)

Comments

[ahicks.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, this appears to be unresolvable. I have the same issue, both with an older Linksys router I picked up, and a D-Link router. I believe hearing the problem to be caused by a VERY minimal TCP buffer built into the device. If firmware doesn't fix it, you likely have a chipset limitation. :P

Sorry dude. But at least know that you're not alone.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

If only I could get Linksys to admit that. :(

[nigel.livejournal.com]

I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but then, I don't have a lot to go on either. The tech support guys are going to be useless. Unless they're faced with a problem that they get every day and they just -know- the answer to, their only concern is always going to be to get you off the phone any way they can without pissing you off. They usually do this by blaming it on another company, (It's not your router. You'll have to call up the company that supports that OS/computer/application/ISP/etc...) or by getting you to do something that will take long enough to get you to hang up so someone else will get stuck with you when you call back. That usually involves asking you to reinstall or upgrade something to a new version. (Driver, patch, firmware, service pack, whatever...) Your best bet is to find an online forum that deals with this kind of thing and see what they tell you. Forums are great because it's like asking a few hundred people at once, and the ones who don't know the answer aren't obligated to feed you a line of BS to make it sound like they know everything. Try the guys over at the http://www.dslreports.com/forums/all. You should be able to find somebody there who'll have the answer for you.

[nigel.livejournal.com]

Damn you, HTML! I hosed up the link, obviously. (Brain no work today...) Just do the cut and paste thing instead.

[caraig.livejournal.com]

S'okay, I got the link fine, thank you. =) I p[osted my problem there but within an hour it had been scrolled off the front page. I'll be surprised if I get a reply to it.

Still, I have workarounds, and people with whom I communicate mostly via telnet know that my router has a bug not a feature and that Linksys couldn't help me a whit. I can get a couple of good years out of this router; I really don't want to just toss it, not when in eery other respect it works.