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[Sefred]

Hey all!

I've been experiencing some very odd problems concerning the DLG 4500 Router. I'm running it on 1.23NA. So I set up the router exactly as shown in FurryNutz's guide (for multiple xbox's) and everything worked swimmingly. However, about 4 days in the quality of the connection kept getting worse and worse. Right now my speed test results to SF (20 miles away) are:
Ping: 399
Download: .5 mbps
Upload: .35 mbps
I'm on my schools internet (plugged directly into the wall, no modem for us to access) and when the internet is good I usually get a ping of 14, a download speed of 50mbps and an upload of 30mbps.

I live in a dorm with 5 other guys, there are 2 xboxs on the wireless, one wired xbox, one wired computer, 3 wireless computers and a Wii. All of them get equally horrible connection after a certain number of days. Another odd thing I've noticed, but am having trouble wording, is that even a pc or xbox plugged directly into the wall in another room while the router is on and bad connection is present, gets an equally horrible connection as if it were plugged into the router(let me know if I need to rephrase this).

Turning off the router, waiting an hour or so and returning all the settings and plugging it back in fixes the problem but only temporarily. I've tried running the router on a simple, out of the box setting and still the problem comes back after a few days.

This may or may not help, but when I look at Wireless statistics under Status>Statistics I see:
Sent :496013
TX Packets Dropped :173
Received :283594
RX Packets Dropped :0
Errors :16429

Also, Status> Internet Session and Status>Wish Session are filled with a multitude of unrecognized IP addresses, though I could just be reading it wrong, still somewhat new to this networking stuff.

Any idea what could be causing this problem? Something even weirder just happened, the connection started to get better (ping 15, DL: 20 mbps UPL 4mbps) for no apparent reason, I'll update if it gets worse again.  Is it possible that one of the computers has a virus eating up the connection or is the problem a setting on the router?

[FurryNutz]

Well if your on your schools internet, the problem could lye down the line on there network and they are probably providing internet for you and all the other students on campus. I would be hard to say how they have there network set up and theoretically the 4500 would work on there system however not sure if there providing a stable traffic for everyone and not sure if there is another router upstream from you that is providing the 4500 router with an open ended network or does the 4500 need to be acting like a router to provide you with the network translation. Sometimes having 2 or more routers on one network can introduce issues and connection between them all. One thing I would do is to turn off WISH. Are you using WiFi and is it secure? I have a buddy that has that one turned off and his sons xbox works fine over G mode only at 2.4Ghz.

One thing you could try, connect the 4500 router to the schools wall jack and connect the other end to the 4500's LAN port, don't connect to the WAN port. Use the 4500 as a switch and see if your setting the same issues. If you are then the traffic on the schools LAN is having the trouble with everyone all on at the same time possibly.

I would save off your current configuration to file then try doing a factory reset under Tools/System and see if you exhibit the same after the factory reset, don't change anything. I would test the 4500 using just one PC and one game console and test each step as you go. Just being on another network like a schools, could be just about anything. Can reload your saved config afterwards. If your seeing this with out the 4500, or connected directly to the wall out let. I bet it's the schools network thats getting hammered all round and the router is doing it's job and can't do it's job when the signal and bangwidth go down from the schools network.

I hope I can be of help.

[Sefred]

Thanks for the quick reply!

I was using everything the way it is put in your guide using your friends multiple xbox setup (WPA - Personal, 2.4Ghz, G mode only). I was worried that it might be the schools network thats causing the problem. We've used a different router in the past (some old linksys garbage) but we never suffered from this problem while we used it. I'll try out using it as a switch tomorrow sometime and i'll let you know how it goes.

[FurryNutz]

Ok, let us know. Will get it figured out. AGain, try doing a clean reset. Use one PC and one game console at first. Be sure to set up a static IP for each device you going to connect. Gamefuel is only needed for the consoles. Gaming is not needed for them. You can use gaming for PC games if you need to. Will be around to help out as much as I can.

You also might get ahold of the schools IT support if there is such a thing and ask them if there is any issues with having dorm routers or if there are some settings that might be needed.