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Originally Posted by Z3CH
I had that god-forsaken router... I eventually traded it for a netgear. So aggravating. And if you need help, you'll never understand the person helping you.
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Glad to see someone else who understands my frustration. If you have this router and aren't frustrated with it, you certainly have not tried to download torrents of any kind! It will crash every time!
The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for one) have a severe problem where they track old connections for FIVE days, which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.
There's a way to hack the firmware on it and replace it with a proper (non-Linksys) open source firmware, but that requires a PC and time and patience. Three things I'm running low on...
Linksys used to be a great company... now everyone seems to have jumped the boat to Netgear and never look back. Belkin I hear is a great brand too... but I will shop around a bit more. Until then I can only download torrents at night while I'm sleeping so my ineffective router wont bother me.
