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Kelly Barron
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Join date: 29 Mar 2008
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03-19-2009 08:34
My network keeps crashing and someone told me it's because SL demands too much. I was told to "make sure that the P2P apps are adjusted to allow a certain amount of connections" but I have no idea what that means, lol. Can any kind soul help me???
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Briana Dawson
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Join date: 23 Sep 2003
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03-19-2009 08:47
How does a network crash from too much information? Does it all just bottle neck and get sent at a specific data rate/speed?
The only time i have heard of a person having network problems like that is on the original slow DSL lines from way back when. _____________________
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Kelly Barron
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03-19-2009 08:49
Beats me!! I'm using a Netgear Rangemax on broadband if that helps.
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Briana Dawson
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03-19-2009 08:51
Do you have an old network set up from like late 90's?
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Kelly Barron
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03-19-2009 09:05
no, this is only a year old at most.
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Kalderi Tomsen
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Join date: 10 May 2007
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03-19-2009 09:22
I had just this problem. I had (and have) Verizon FiOs but after a while in-world my whole network would go down. I had to power off and on the router box to make it work again. I called up the support geeks and they told me that my router box (that they had given me when I signed up) wasn't man enough for that sort of high, sustained traffic, so I changed it for another that I bought at BestBuy and it's been fine ever since.
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Kelly Barron
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03-19-2009 09:24
What router box did you buy? Cause that's what i have to do, power down the Netgear and then power it back up until it disconnects again!!
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Kalderi Tomsen
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03-19-2009 12:12
LOL you're asking me? I think it was a LinkSys - it had two little antennae on it.
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Briana Dawson
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03-19-2009 12:40
I use a Linksys wireless/wired router.
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Riko Jarman
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Join date: 2 Nov 2007
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03-19-2009 12:47
I had a D-Link router (624 I think) that would crash after about 1 or 2 hours of SL running through it. I had to power it down and back up to get anything to flow through it again. I replaced it with a Linksys and have not had any problems since then. I didn't change any P2P settings on either router.
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Milla Janick
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Join date: 2 Jan 2008
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03-19-2009 12:52
I had a Linksys cable modem/wireless router device that did exactly the same thing. Anything that put much stress on the network connection and it froze up requiring a reboot.
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Feldspar Millgrove
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03-20-2009 15:32
I had a Linksys cable modem/wireless router device that did exactly the same thing. Anything that put much stress on the network connection and it froze up requiring a reboot. Second Life isn't much "stress" on a network. |
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Milla Janick
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03-20-2009 15:37
Second Life isn't much "stress" on a network. It was enough to crash the Linksys box. _____________________
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03-20-2009 17:19
some older routers just can't handle sustained traffic... and/or will crash from overheating too (see this even more with some crappy cable modems). first make sure it's getting lots of air flow and not next to other hot things.
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Milla Janick
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03-20-2009 18:27
first make sure it's getting lots of air flow and not next to other hot things. It's either crap or defective. In either case it should be replaced. _____________________
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03-20-2009 19:05
It's either crap or defective. In either case it should be replaced. even good equipment can overheat if not properly ventilated (ok there's an argument to be made for faulty design principle, but it applies to pretty much every commercial router made) _____________________
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EliteData Maximus
Technical Geek
Join date: 3 Oct 2007
Posts: 298
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03-20-2009 19:34
the actiontec supplied router is causing the problem.
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