From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.200.11]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2292857 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:04 -0400 Message-ID: <4BAB714F.9070807@2rosenthals.com> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:03 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090827 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.18 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] WRT54G References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi again... On 03/24/10 06:52 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote : > On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Lewis G Rosenthal > wrote: > >> Hi, Sam... >> >> On 03/24/10 05:59 pm, Sam Lewis thus wrote : >> >>> I too have a WRT54G and have no problems with it, as far as I know. >>> However I bought a WRT54GS2 last year and used it for about 6 months >>> with no issues. I had turned the WiFi off altogether since I only >>> needed the wired portion. >>> >>> I have since loaned it to a friend and set it up for them with WPA2 >>> and have noticed when doing something intense like printing across the >>> WiFi to an HP DeskJet or running DNS Benchmark pings to the ISP's >>> gateway can take 2 to 4 seconds. I saw this behavior before using the >>> WPA2 as well. >>> >>> Do these newer models have underpowered CPU's? Or do I have a bad unit? >>> >>> I have the same ISP and doing the same test on my WRT54G my max ping >>> time is 28ms vs. 3800ms on the other router. However I do get a few >>> request timeouts. >>> >>> >>> >> WPA in general introduces a fair amount of overhead. LinkSys would probably >> tell you that there is nothing abnormal, although the rest of us would >> consider it most annoying. You should probably test when wired and then >> compare those stats to the wireless performance to see if the issue is >> isolated to the Wi-Fi or is system-wide. >> > > I get the same results on the Wired PC vs. the Wireless one. Also the > same when I had it open with no security. > > That would point me toward the router itself simply getting overloaded. It's either a RAM shortage or a CPU shortcoming. I haven't read very many good things about the GS2's, although I think that mainly the complaints have been the lack of adequate RAM and the internal antenna. I honestly hadn't heard of anything similar to what you describe, Sam. It might be worth calling LinkSys support and complaining of dropped connections (if you attempt to tell the level 1 tech on the phone that there is greater ping latency than expected, you'll likely lose your audience in a hurry). :-) If you decide to go the route (no pun intended) of contacting support, please keep us posted. GL -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com visit my IT blog www.2rosenthals.net/wordpress -------------------------------------------------------------