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daffeh
06-01-2005, 10:31
Hi,

I've been using my new asus wl 500g for a month now since my dlink died and that worked like crap :(
First i had the disconnet issue and the no lease found issue but that got fixed with placing a small hub between motorolla modem and the router.
Now everything is running smooth except for one thing:
For my thesis at school i'm forced to use the FTP from the company i'm doing my job for. I need to download (mostly small) dozens of pictures and files every day (vary from 10k to sometime 10meg).
All is well up to that point, the only thing is that they are using a windows based ftp server and that you can't use passive transfer (to counter ftp hacking i guess). You have bind sockets to your (external) ip and choose a number of ports to use while downloading because active transfer requires that.
So what i did was limit my ports to 9000-9100 in ftp client and forward those ports (9000:9100) on my router with virtual server.
This all worked fine (except some failure due to the port being in use) untill a few days ago. Since that moment the following happens: i start the downloading of a file at port 9000, after that file it start the download of the next at port 9001 and the download starts but the speed remains stuk at 0kbps. If i disconnect and reconnect it does the same at port 9002 and so on ...
I didnt change my router or ftp settings and i tried using factory defaults but no luck :(

Any ideas how to solve this, the only way i can still get my files now is do a server to server transfer to the schools public ftp and then get the files from there but that server is bw limited to 25k each (big school) so it takes me several hours to do what ussually takes minutes.

Antiloop
06-01-2005, 12:36
force your company to install a decent FTP application, that should solve your problem..

or force them to configure it all correctly, so people with a router can access it too..

daffeh
06-01-2005, 13:02
yea i told them a linuxbox would be a wise investment but it seems that i am about the only one that has this problem.
The weird thing is that it just started doing this during a downloadjob of about 40 files after the the 20th file and it hasn't stopped ever since :x

brubber
07-01-2005, 00:08
Have you tried rebooting your router?

daffeh
07-01-2005, 10:05
yea i did
I noticed now that the same thing happens on msn, (i opened up ports 6891 through 6901) when i'm seding two files the first one succeeds at port 6891 but the second one fails at port 6892.
It looks like when forwarding ports 9000 up to 9100 with 9000:9100 for some reason it just opens up the first port..
So, I switched back to the latest 1.8 release and that works fine for virtual server, only now i get disconnected at least once a day.

PS: I also noticed that port trigger doesn't seem to work for enabeling ident (port 113) in mirc with the 1.9 firmware

Antiloop
07-01-2005, 12:55
yea i did
I noticed now that the same thing happens on msn, (i opened up ports 6891 through 6901) when i'm seding two files the first one succeeds at port 6891 but the second one fails at port 6892.
It looks like when forwarding ports 9000 up to 9100 with 9000:9100 for some reason it just opens up the first port..
So, I switched back to the latest 1.8 release and that works fine for virtual server, only now i get disconnected at least once a day.

PS: I also noticed that port trigger doesn't seem to work for enabeling ident (port 113) in mirc with the 1.9 firmware
why do you forward stuff for MSN ?

daffeh
07-01-2005, 13:37
why do you forward stuff for MSN ?
for sending multiple files at once with msn?

Styno
07-01-2005, 14:00
for sending multiple files at once with msn?
I can send and receive files (not tested with multiple files at once) without UPnP and port forwarding...

Antiloop
07-01-2005, 14:26
I can send and receive files (not tested with multiple files at once) without UPnP and port forwarding...

well I have UPnP enabled cause I don't care. (and no port forwarding..)

anyway sending multliple files goes fine then.. (have never tried without UPnP)

daffeh
08-01-2005, 10:07
i found out what the problem was when i used my 1.8.x settings on a 1.9.x firmware.
With the 1.9.x you get an extra field (local port) on your virtual server where i just filled in the same as port range, instead of leaving it blank.

(little offtopic question: how can i set a lease time bigger than 24hours when the inputfield isnt large enough on the web based browser? The maximum allowed characters is 5 it seems)