question Ted F ? What small network (4 users) wireless router has the capability most management / troubleshooting
The users of my wireless home network to complain about outages, variable delay can not restore takes too long to connect again. I wanna see what really happens with a large log. Lags behind the cable company or my router? How retransmitts and from the router? What is the bandwidth at 08.00 clock cable Best answer:
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Ryan Smith
I have a Linksys WRT54G
rotted V ~ ~ ~ $ 50 in any store. I downloaded the DD-WRT (http://www.dd-wrt.com/dd-wrtv2/index.php) firmware for it, and I’m just shocked by the performance gewesen.Die DD-WRT is a frimware open source, so it’s a little nerve racking the first time you install it, because you can “brick” your router. It’s worth the risk aber.Es allows you to send a VPN pass-through so you can access your network from any place to go. The DD-WRT basicially 50 turns your router into a router 600. This is something I recommend if you are getting a new router.
What do you think? Answer below!
What you need is a router that features QoS – Quality of Service. What this features does is it routes the traffic from your computers in a timely fashion depending of the type of interesting traffic that the router detects.
In other words, the router distinguishes the type of protocols and packets that are trying to access the Internet (outbound) and the network (inbound) and looks for the most time critical ones to give them prioritization over other packets. For example, lets say you have a computer running a game server over the Internet and the rest of your computers are running web browsers and email clients. In this scenario the router would be hit with all these packets trying to get out/into the LAN almost all of them instantly almost at the same time. What the router will do then is look for the time critical packets and allow them the right of way (first in and out of the router) every time even though some of these packets might have gotten there AFTER all the other non-critical packets had arrived to the router first. This lets you run your game server (time critical packets) without a hitch while the other computers wont notice the slight lag in their browsing and email reading (non critical packets).
On another note, if you want to see the inner workings of your LAN, consider purchasing a network packet and protocol analyzer like Network Inspector (costly) if your serious about venturing into the fun world of network management. There are other less expensive and even free options, try googling them.
As for the answer Ryan Smith gave, its a very good answer indeed. Upgrading the firmware is good practice in all of troubleshooting practices, good for your hardware means good for you. Ryan, I haven’t tried it on my linsys yet, but ill give it a try now that you brought up that point. Good job.