tomilius
23-02-2005, 07:17
Thanks to everyone (Oleg) who took the time to review this information. The futility of continued posting in this thread has been realized in any case.
I had thought the problem was router-related because the device would work better or worse depending on the firmware installed. Still, the other wireless device (WL-138g) works fine with everything, aside from a horribly poor signal strength.
BIGGEST UPDATE: I don't really know what the problem is, but I'm staying away from current 1.9.2.7-based firmware and all ASUS firmware.
UPDATE: The cause of this problem has been traced to random WPA-PSK problems, as described elsewhere. Read the later posts in this thread for possible solutions (1.8.1.x, WEP, possibly others...).
[EDIT: Tried to add some more detailed information and organize it a little better. More will be posted in replies.]
Hello - I'm new to the forums and admire the work done on these custom firmwares (a lot more than ASUS has done to solve problems, perhaps). I'd definitely like to thank you all for that, so thanks Oleg, Antiloop, and everyone and anyone else who worked on them.
Having said that, there's an issue I've had, and I haven't actually done much troubleshooting on it due to the great amount of time it takes, but I can state the circumstances in which it occurs. To start off, I wouldn't consider myself a newbie, and I have the latest firmware and drivers on everything.
Firmware: 1.9.2.7-3c
WMM: Off
Encryption: WPA-PSK, TKIP
Hide SSID: On
Wireless Channel: 11
Wireless Mode: Auto [54g Protection checked] (I've the checkbox both ways)
Number of connections to track: 5120 (I raised it from 4096 hoping it would solve the problem after reading about the P2P issues--it didn't)
Affected Computer: The one running P2P, it appears. It uses Wireless G.
Adapter: MN-710 (Microsoft USB 2.0 Wireless G Adapter)
Devices Connected: One 100mbps LAN computer, two Wireless G computers, one Wireless B Pocket PC (may or may not be running while problems occur)
Symptoms-
Occurs: Randomly
What: The connection "drops"
How:
http://www.nochances.net/images/wirelessissue.jpg
http://www.nochances.net/images/wirelessissue2.jpg
Description: When this happens, Windows WILL NOT reconnect automatically or solve the problem without user intervention.
Possible hand-in-hand symptoms-
Pocket PC Streaming from Affected Computer Loses Buffer and Stops
Windows Announces that I have Connected Though I've Been Connected
(The reason these are only "possible" symptoms is that they seem to be unrelated to the main symptom.)
I've tried-
Switched to 1.8.1.7-3. Connection, with P2P, lasted over 13 hours before I ended the trial. The "Pocket PC Streaming" issue did occur, but the stream lasted a lot longer than ever before (2 hours, 2 minutes). I'm disregarding this.
Now, I think it does have something to do with BitTorrent. When I loaded it during the day, the connection died after a while in this familiar way.
I had reinstalled Windows hoping to solve the problem, and it, in fact, did SEEM to solve the problem at first. I was able to stream music to my Pocket PC just fine at night without any interruptions (that I noticed before falling asleep).
But again, the main problem is that it randomly, as it was working fine, would state that it couldn't connect. Windows said it would keep trying but would not, halting my connection for hours on end and therefore interrupting downloads.
I mean, it would work great, with high signal strengths and speeds of 54mbps, and then suddenly it would STOP in the way I described.
I had thought the problem was router-related because the device would work better or worse depending on the firmware installed. Still, the other wireless device (WL-138g) works fine with everything, aside from a horribly poor signal strength.
BIGGEST UPDATE: I don't really know what the problem is, but I'm staying away from current 1.9.2.7-based firmware and all ASUS firmware.
UPDATE: The cause of this problem has been traced to random WPA-PSK problems, as described elsewhere. Read the later posts in this thread for possible solutions (1.8.1.x, WEP, possibly others...).
[EDIT: Tried to add some more detailed information and organize it a little better. More will be posted in replies.]
Hello - I'm new to the forums and admire the work done on these custom firmwares (a lot more than ASUS has done to solve problems, perhaps). I'd definitely like to thank you all for that, so thanks Oleg, Antiloop, and everyone and anyone else who worked on them.
Having said that, there's an issue I've had, and I haven't actually done much troubleshooting on it due to the great amount of time it takes, but I can state the circumstances in which it occurs. To start off, I wouldn't consider myself a newbie, and I have the latest firmware and drivers on everything.
Firmware: 1.9.2.7-3c
WMM: Off
Encryption: WPA-PSK, TKIP
Hide SSID: On
Wireless Channel: 11
Wireless Mode: Auto [54g Protection checked] (I've the checkbox both ways)
Number of connections to track: 5120 (I raised it from 4096 hoping it would solve the problem after reading about the P2P issues--it didn't)
Affected Computer: The one running P2P, it appears. It uses Wireless G.
Adapter: MN-710 (Microsoft USB 2.0 Wireless G Adapter)
Devices Connected: One 100mbps LAN computer, two Wireless G computers, one Wireless B Pocket PC (may or may not be running while problems occur)
Symptoms-
Occurs: Randomly
What: The connection "drops"
How:
http://www.nochances.net/images/wirelessissue.jpg
http://www.nochances.net/images/wirelessissue2.jpg
Description: When this happens, Windows WILL NOT reconnect automatically or solve the problem without user intervention.
Possible hand-in-hand symptoms-
Pocket PC Streaming from Affected Computer Loses Buffer and Stops
Windows Announces that I have Connected Though I've Been Connected
(The reason these are only "possible" symptoms is that they seem to be unrelated to the main symptom.)
I've tried-
Switched to 1.8.1.7-3. Connection, with P2P, lasted over 13 hours before I ended the trial. The "Pocket PC Streaming" issue did occur, but the stream lasted a lot longer than ever before (2 hours, 2 minutes). I'm disregarding this.
Now, I think it does have something to do with BitTorrent. When I loaded it during the day, the connection died after a while in this familiar way.
I had reinstalled Windows hoping to solve the problem, and it, in fact, did SEEM to solve the problem at first. I was able to stream music to my Pocket PC just fine at night without any interruptions (that I noticed before falling asleep).
But again, the main problem is that it randomly, as it was working fine, would state that it couldn't connect. Windows said it would keep trying but would not, halting my connection for hours on end and therefore interrupting downloads.
I mean, it would work great, with high signal strengths and speeds of 54mbps, and then suddenly it would STOP in the way I described.