Is it a known problem that Linksys routers irreparably slow down over time?
I used to have a WRT54G Linksys router that I replaced about 6 months ago because it would keep dropping the wifi, and the new one I got is a Linksys E1000 (believe it ran me about $70).
It used to run just fine, and when I moved to my new apartment and got 22 mb/s cable internet, I was seeing 22 mb/s speeds on speedtest.net on my PC over wifi through the E1000 to the modem.
But for the last month or so the Internet has been getting mercilessly slow. Speedtest.net now reports just barely more than 1 MB/s.
Rebooting the router helped bring the speed back up the first couple times but eventually not even rebooting would help.
Tonight I decided to narrow down which device was at fault and connected my PC directly to the modem: got the full 22 mb/s now. So it is definitely the router that's slowing things down.
I've rebooted the router (no help), reset it to factory settings (no help), updated its firmware from 1.0.00 to 1.0.01 (no help) and then did something drastic: flashed dd-wrt onto the router, just to rule out that it's a Linksys software problem. No good! Still only can get between 1 and 2 MB/s when I should be getting nearly 22.
I've been googling and most people can just reboot their routers to get their speed back. I also looked on the DD-WRT wiki about router slowdowns and it told me what files to look at via telnet to see if too many connections were in use or anything. Nothing out of the ordinary there. I'm not using P2P software and haven't been for several days, and definitely haven't been since I did hard factory resets and flashing new firmwares on there.
Any solution to this or should I just ditch this router and get a better one? Any brand that's recommended over Linksys? Having a router just "burn out" beyond any hope of repair after 6 months is ridiculous.
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I used to have a WRT54G Linksys router that I replaced about 6 months ago because it would keep dropping the wifi, and the new one I got is a Linksys E1000 (believe it ran me about $70).
It used to run just fine, and when I moved to my new apartment and got 22 mb/s cable internet, I was seeing 22 mb/s speeds on speedtest.net on my PC over wifi through the E1000 to the modem.
But for the last month or so the Internet has been getting mercilessly slow. Speedtest.net now reports just barely more than 1 MB/s.
Rebooting the router helped bring the speed back up the first couple times but eventually not even rebooting would help.
Tonight I decided to narrow down which device was at fault and connected my PC directly to the modem: got the full 22 mb/s now. So it is definitely the router that's slowing things down.
I've rebooted the router (no help), reset it to factory settings (no help), updated its firmware from 1.0.00 to 1.0.01 (no help) and then did something drastic: flashed dd-wrt onto the router, just to rule out that it's a Linksys software problem. No good! Still only can get between 1 and 2 MB/s when I should be getting nearly 22.
I've been googling and most people can just reboot their routers to get their speed back. I also looked on the DD-WRT wiki about router slowdowns and it told me what files to look at via telnet to see if too many connections were in use or anything. Nothing out of the ordinary there. I'm not using P2P software and haven't been for several days, and definitely haven't been since I did hard factory resets and flashing new firmwares on there.
Any solution to this or should I just ditch this router and get a better one? Any brand that's recommended over Linksys? Having a router just "burn out" beyond any hope of repair after 6 months is ridiculous.
Kirsle.net | My personal homepage
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