(Kind of OT) BT and Linksys Router (WRT45G 2.2)

From: Michael A. Peters (mpeters_at_mac.com)
Date: 03/05/05

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    I rarely use BT - but a few days ago, mom asked Dad to record survivor
    so she could entertain guests, I called while dad was on route to do
    that, and it didn't happen, she was upset - so I BT'd it and burned a
    DVD and mailed it to her, so she can see it before next weeks.

    Anyway - BT'ing the show caused my Linksys WRT54G to crash several
    times.
    I could see the speed of the BT slowing down, then it would die and
    connection error - and I could not ping router until I rebooted the
    router. It never does this when I'm not using BT.

    Googling showed this seems to be a common issue, especially with PPPoE
    connections. Solutions oftered were mostly stupid, stuff like "disable
    your firewall on your PC" etc.

    Since the FC4 Test 1 is due to be released soon, and that's a much
    larger BT than a Survivor AVI - I'm hoping someone here has experienced
    this and knows how to solve it.

    The only solution I found online that looks like it might do the trick
    (IE suggested by someone who seems to know what he's talking about) is
    to install the HyperWRT firmware, to get a command prompt on the router
    - and then issue

    echo 8192 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_conntrack_max

    Has anyone tried this?

    With the number of times I had to reboot the router while downloading
    the ~350 MB avi file, it would probably be better for me to ftp the dvd
    iso rather than trying to BT it - but I prefer to BT large files (and
    then leave BT running for awhile for others)

    Thanks 

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Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/
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