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Title: Is this normal?
Post by: ob12 on March 12, 2010, 08:52:42 AM

Here are my statistics directly from the router since this morning.  Notice the wireless stats:

LAN Statistics
Sent : 24792774 .

TX Packets Dropped : 3 .

Collisions : 0 .
 Received : 16676027 .

RX Packets Dropped : 0 .

Errors : 0 .
 
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WAN Statistics
Sent : 14144200 .

TX Packets Dropped : 0 .

Collisions : 0 .
 Received : 29584299 .

RX Packets Dropped : 0 .

Errors : 0 .
 
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Wireless Statistics
Sent : 3600991 .

TX Packets Dropped : 28958 .
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 Received : 2591685 .

RX Packets Dropped : 1642 .

Errors : 32753 .
 

Title: Re: Is this normal?
Post by: FurryNutz on March 12, 2010, 09:36:03 AM

How many days has your router been online. Mines been online for 7 days, N mode only using on my MacBook Pro

LAN STATISTICS

Sent :14975104
TX Packets Dropped :8
Collisions :0
Received :10521613
RX Packets Dropped :0
Errors :1
WAN STATISTICS

Sent :11008086
TX Packets Dropped :0
Collisions :0
Received :69310574
RX Packets Dropped :0
Errors :0
WIRELESS STATISTICS

Sent :1483832
TX Packets Dropped :103
Received :1133762
RX Packets Dropped :6745
Errors :129

Title: Re: Is this normal?
Post by: ob12 on March 12, 2010, 01:18:03 PM

Its only been running for like a day since the last reboot.  I hope they come out with new firmware soon to fix the wireless restarts...

Title: Re: Is this normal?
Post by: FurryNutz on March 12, 2010, 01:52:54 PM

What FW version are you using? Im running v1.15 on my 2nd 4500.

Title: Re: Is this normal?
Post by: philwoz98 on March 12, 2010, 01:58:14 PM

Yeah those seem really high, here is mine for 6 days up, on firmware 1.15 running six devices on wireless g mode only. The only thing I can recommend is trying to downgrade to firmware 1.15 considering you can all way's go back to the 1.2x series. Here is the link to the thread of the downgrade process http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=10894.0 (http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=10894.0) . Also what are the differences between rx and tx packets and is it ok for them to be dropped?

LAN Statistics

Sent :158737

TX Packets Dropped :0

Collisions :0
   

Received :98637

RX Packets Dropped :0

Errors :0
WAN Statistics

Sent :1282434

TX Packets Dropped :0

Collisions :0
   

Received :1035180

RX Packets Dropped :0

Errors :0
Wireless Statistics

Sent :1076415

TX Packets Dropped :0

   

Received :1270801

RX Packets Dropped :24

Errors :65415

Title: Re: Is this normal?
Post by: FurryNutz on March 12, 2010, 02:05:15 PM

Let us know what your FW version is first before you do anything. Could be setup as well. Lets know then we can go from there. You shouldn't be seeing any wireless restarts. You will see wireless errors on any FW version you use however.

Title: Re: Is this normal?
Post by: ob12 on March 12, 2010, 11:18:21 PM

I'm using 1.22, and I wasn't as worried about the errors, it was the amount of dropped or lost packets on the wireless link. 

Title: Re: Is this normal?
Post by: FurryNutz on March 13, 2010, 10:18:37 AM

ya, you going to see dropped packets and errors regardless. I've seen this on various FW versions. Some more, some less. Have to remember this is radio waves and any interference and just general signal quality of the radio waves can and mostly likely introduce errors and dropped packets. This doesn't mean that system is not compensating and probably correcting as it's going along either. The network is probably re-acquiring the packets as needed to correct any issues. This is done in a split second probably. The router is just doing what DLink programmed it to do, report these drops and errors.

What mode are you using? Have you tried a single mode only to check for wireless drops? You shouldn't be seeing an restarts or hangs for wireless. Try G mode only at 2.4Ghz and see how it goes. Let us know what you see.