WRT54GS v2 w/HyperWRT

Aretè

I originally posted this in WoW chat thread but on second thought probably was a bad idea. It relates to torrents and pretty much any P2P software and seeing as the blizzard downloader and blizzard background downloader both use bit torrent to distribute patches I need a hand here. (I already got the patches I need off of fileplanet but I would still like to resolve this issue)

Since Linksys is notorious for having shitty routers when it comes to P2P i finally decided to switch over to HyperWRT as the use of the Blizz patcher pretty much just crapped out my connection to the internet and everyone else on the router after 20 minutes. So finally I said screw it flashed it with HyperWRT and everything was going very well for over an hour till it finally crapped out yet again.

So the question is, what other tweaks/mods/scripts do I need to run after I put in HyperWRT to get this damn router to stop crapping out on me?

Things I have already done:

Evillord patch
HyperWRT
Increased number of connections

What I'm looking for
I am sure I have looked it over in my half awake state, but TCP time out limit and anything else that kills the time packets are held onto. Also any good sites for scripts to run.

TIA

ManyCowsMoo

I have a WRT54G v2.0 (i think) (not the GS, just G) and my connection would always go extremely slow or not even work when I used anything with a high number of connections such as the WoW patcher or torrents. I tried a couple other firmwares but they messed up my wireless settings or I just didn't like em. Finally I saw something about this new firmware called "tomato" and it just plainly works.

http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato

I didn't have to change any of my settings at all, everything worked just like before, it adds a ton of features, and most importantly torrents/WoW patcher worked fine without killing my connection.

If you really wanna' stick with HyperWRT I can't help you, but Tomato fixed all my problems Hopefully it would still work on yours even though yours is a GS and not a G.

vonPoonBurGer

I use DD-WRT myself, so I can't comment directly on the other firmwares in use here. You mentioned that you bumped up the number of connections, and changed the timeouts. Does HyperWRT have any place where it shows you the current number of active connections? Basically, you want to modify the number of connections and the connection timeout value so that you're never maxing out the connection count. In my case, I bumped the connection count to the maximum (4096) and dropped the connection timeout to a relatively short value (600 seconds), and I haven't had any problems since. Why LinkSys defaults to 3600 seconds, I have no idea. The way the firewall software in the router works, any traffic on an active connection resets the timeout countdown. If a connection hasn't seen any traffic for five minutes, fuck it, it's probably dead. So don't be afraid to drop the timeout value, that might help more than increasing the connection total.

Aretè

I'll look into both of these options, thank you.