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[cubicjack]

Sometimes the connection to the Internet just resets, and takes me "The gateway is currently measuring your network connection.
Accessing this web page might have an effect on the measurement. This page will refresh shortly." page again.
This only happens when I'm downloading a few torrents at once. What could be causing this problem?

I'm using Rev.A1 with the 1.09 firmware.

[cubicjack]

Wow. No one? It's not a torrent-only problem either. I've realized that whenever there is a high load, it will reset every once in a while.

Can anyone help me? Or should I just replace this piece of junk?

[Qev]

Well, it's either the router resetting, or your cable/dsl modem resetting.  I was thinking it might've been your ISP playing nasty torrent-throttling games, but you've ruled that out already.  Have you caught what the router's status lights are doing when this happens?

I suppose you could direct-connect the computer to the modem (software firewall time, whee) and see if you can reproduce the problem without the router in the loop?

[cubicjack]

I have tried connecting directly to the modem already. Around the same amount of traffic, no disconnects detected.

[Qev]

I guess try factory-resetting the router in case something's gotten mangled someplace?  If that doesn't work, I suppose you could re-flash the firmware with 1.09 again.

If that doesn't work, I'd guess it's hosed. :/

[cubicjack]

I have tried factory resetting and updating to 1.09 again, problem still exists. Could it be that there are too many active sessions at once, causing the router to crash?

[Lycan]

I'd try disabling the Wireless on the router and see if that behavior continues.
Also what encryption are you running?

[cubicjack]

Well the computer that's contributing most of the traffic is using a wired connection, but there are other computers connected through wireless, not sure if that means anything. But I will try disabling the wireless and see if the problem persists.

And I'm currently using WPA encryption.

[bogae]

Did this get solved somehow?
I see that since April there are no replies, so, if anyone found the solution to this, I would like to know it too.
I am having a DIR 625 and I had before a DI, I think it was a 624, and I had the same issue. The old one I replaced already once with another one from Dlink and still the same problem.
I bought the DIR 625 with the hope that it would work better, however it is doing the same thing.
I found an old article about the Dlink's resetting themselves when the buffer is overflowed. It was back then a serious security issue for everybody.
I wonder if they fixed it at all.
I wonder if perhaps the ISP's do not know that and use it to throttle.
Anybody has any idea how I could fix that?
Thank you.

[Qev]

Apparently a lot of home routers will lock up or reset themselves if they exceed their connection limits, and if there's one thing bittorrent likes to do, it's open up scads of connections.  The only thing to really do is to limit the number of connections the bittorrent application is creating.  Or, I suppose, lower the timeout period for idle connections on the router to keep dead connections from piling up, but I don't think there's a setting for that in the D-Link administration pages.    

[Lycan]

By default the Windows operating system can only open 10 concurrent connections. The router will mantain connections in the state table. The watchdog in the NAT should keep the unit from rebooting based on the state table, but sometime a reboot is needed if the state won't dump.
Limit your BT software and see if the issue persists.

[chrisnclovis]

You can try locking the WAN port speed to 100Mbps.

[Qev]

By default the Windows operating system can only open 10 concurrent connections. The router will mantain connections in the state table. The watchdog in the NAT should keep the unit from rebooting based on the state table, but sometime a reboot is needed if the state won't dump.
Limit your BT software and see if the issue persists.

I believe that 10 connection limit applies only to other computers in a Microsoft Network environment.  Unless I'm mistaken, XP for example has a default TCP connection limit nearing 4000 active TCP connections.  Most home routers top out at 4096 open connections total for all systems connected to them, and that's only if none of their memory is tied up doing anything else.  It's not unheard-of for me to see upwards of 2000 open connections on my router (I'm running DD-WRT) when I start bittorrent on one of the network machines.

But yeah, if there's no way to alter how the router is handling it (advanced feature request, D-Link *nudge nudge* ) then you'll have to tell bittorrent to behave.

[Lycan]

QoS it. The lower the priority the less connections it's allowed to utilize through the NAT.

[Alumicor]

I have found a way to reduce the re-booting and I believe it is due to D-Links implementation of UPnP

I'm not sure if this is the problem or not but I seem to have solved it by turning off UPnP in both the router and windows.

I believe the router still re-boots randomly but the frequency has been dramatical reduced.

To turn off UPnP in Windows XP

"To completely disable the potentially dangerous UPnP service from Windows XP, there are two services present that should be disabled. You can access the Services panel through Administrative Tools (Control Panel>>Performance and Maintenance). The two services you need to disable are:

Universal Plug and Play Device Host

AND

SSDP Discovery Service"

This may or may not work but like I said it has definitely reduced the frequency of re-booting.