Mailing List os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com Archived Message #6698

From:	"Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>	Full Headers Undecoded message
Subject:	Re: [OS2Wireless] WRT54G
Date:	Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:21:03 -0400
To:	OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

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 <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> 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 <snip> -- 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 -------------------------------------------------------------

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