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[ephemare]

I am not a heavy torrent maniac but I do use it every once in awhile.

I noticed this behavior on my DGL.

As the number of connected seeders grows on my connection, the signal strength of my router drops drastically.

I am at 85 % most of the time on my wireless signal.

As I hit 300-400+ users connected my signal drops from 85 % to 35 %.

Anyone else can report this behavior?

I tested this situation on a DIR-628, the previous router I was using.
My signal is sitting at 80 % in normal situations and when I do torrent my signal stay strong.
Even with 500+ seeders connected I notice a very light decrease but I am talking of 5 to 8 % less in signal strength.  Not a 50 % drop!


I decided to put my DGL-4500 back in it's box and and I am a little pissed at dropping 180 $ on a router where a 80 $ one does a better job.

[ephemare]

I made a thread on the DIR-628 forum regarding an issue I was having.

I am by no means a tech wizard and I know some of you guys know much more about routers than I do.

http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=13878.0

I had the same problem with my DGL-4500.

If anyone who knows their biz in router matters and could check it out, I would really appreciate it!

Thanks for your time!

[Trikein]

The amount of connections through your router has nothing to do with your wireless signal. Or atleast it shouldn't. I am thinking there is something else going on. Is the PC doing the seeding a wireless connection? If so, it could be the wireless changing rates to keep up and finding a channel with less signal stregth. If you mean the torrent machine is wired, and when you use it you see the wireless go down, I cant see those being related. More info?

[ephemare]

The machine I am torrenting with is connected via wireless.

I am usualy not seeding myself. I was talking about the numbers of seeders I got connected to.

Each time the number of seeders went about 300 or around that number the signal strength of my wireless dropped by 50 % or so, and I dont mean it just drops instantly. As the number of connected peers grows the signal lowers little by little. I am pretty sure its coming from there as there are no other situation in which the signal drops that low.

I see variation in my signal every once in awhile but nothing like a 50 % drop. Happens when I get connected to a tons of seeders for my download.

My upload is set to send to 3 users maximum.

[Trikein]

I was going to say, if your seeding out 300, I don't think you classify as a "light" user. Heh.

As for the number of seeds, I have a idea. It could be, as the seeds go up, so does your transfer rate. And as you reach past a certian transfer rate, the router changes how its transmitting the signal. Think about it like this. You have a cell phone, you just talking to someone and have 5 bars on a 2g connection. You go to download a site on the phones browser, the phone swaps to 3G to get you faster speed, but you only have 2 bars at 3G. I found this too from good ol' Tom's hardware.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20446-43-wireless-networking-general

What does the Basic Rate setting in an access point or wireless router do and how does it differ from the Transmit Rate setting?
The Basic Rate set is the rates that all clients that want to associate with a given access point must support. For 802.11b WLANs, these will be 1, 2, 5.5 and 11Mbps. This information is transmitted by an access point as mandatory rates in the Supported Rates element of various management frames.All current-generation 802.11b products support the 1,2,5.5 and 11Mbps basic rate set. However some very old 802.11b clients may only be able to associate with APs advertising a 1, 2Mbps basic rate set. This is why some APs allow you to change this setting.The Transmit Rate setting is used to set the fastest rate that an AP or wireless router will send data. It can be used to force a lower rate in order to trade off speed for more reliable connection in WLANs where many clients are operating at low signal levels.

It would take alot more research to understand the exact mechanic behind the change, but I think thats basically it. So a easy fix would be to see what rate you have when you begin, and the lock the router to that.

Router > Wireless > WIRELESS NETWORK SETTINGS > Transmission Rate