Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent in D-Link http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r14003739 en Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:37:50 EDT Sat, 28 Nov 2009 04:37:50 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14634510 pleekmo :
said by gord27 See Profile :

the connection only dies at random times when dling relatively fast.
I had a situation similar in which torrents would lock up my network. Figured out that the problem was a particular NIC in my network -- it just didn't like dealing with a lot of connections, which is one of the things that happens when one is Torrenting.

You may wish to see if one of your NICs (rather than the router) is the problem. Perhaps a different NIC driver may fix the issue.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14634510 Sat, 22 Oct 2005 15:27:12 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14634110 anon : Hey kareshi,

I also have the dgl-4300 and all i had to do was go to Advanced/Special Applications, disable all the ALG configurations and added a new rule. Trigger Port was set to the torrent required ports, input port is the port you want to use and then set the schedule to "always". So there's no need to add a Game Setting/enable Game Fuel/ or add a virtual server (which you shouldn't use for bittorrent unless you want to expose a port to WWW, ie. your own web site.)]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14634110 Sat, 22 Oct 2005 14:00:55 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14558762 gord27 : i wish i had all you ppl, that get it working, here to help me. this router is no different than my di604 for stability when dling torrents. it's really disappointing for me.

i've tried tweaking every router setting and every azureus setting. the connection only dies at random times when dling relatively fast. there doesn't seem to be a rhyme or reason for it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14558762 Wed, 12 Oct 2005 02:39:50 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14522747 anon : I have been testing settings as well, i use the 4100. Long story short use firmware 1.4 turn off unused ALG's like pptp, aol, vpn, netmeeting, and l2tp. Gamefuel on auto classification, upload speed set manually, explicit rules set for games (BF2). I get full bandwidth through the router, with local speed tests to my isp. Game ping times are excellent. You can try turning on UPNP for bittorrent, i have before and it works well. I have done probe tests with upnp enabled the router will not respond to requests to upnp from the internet it has to be started on your side of the firewall. ]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14522747 Fri, 07 Oct 2005 01:02:16 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14519788 Nicrypt : I am replying to any topics regarding the DGL-4300 and/or the DSL-300T as these are the two items I purchased which caused a few issues which I have now overcome after a week of configuration changes. As with all routers/modems issues arise.... thats life. So enough waffle...... the concluding facts:

www.dlink.co.uk

DSL-300T with latest firmware 05/2005. Latest to date anyway as of 06/09/2005.
DGL-4300 with v1.4 firmware

(1) A couple of points if you are thinking of using this router and modem together: The DGL-4300 requires the 1.4 firmware to fix compat issues. If you are planning to use the modem as the PPPoA for connecting to your ISP, and the router connecting to the modem via DHCP Client be aware that the modem has a refresh rate of 60 seconds on the DHCP IP timeout which would be better increased to perhaps 3600 seconds.

(2) Now for the problematic DSL-300T: I orginally thought it was the router causing most of the issues I was having, I was proved wrong. If you are planning to use this modem for the most basic of tasks behind a router or PC you are unlikely to experience any diffculties. But for those who use the internet for anything and everything the modem is very prone to crashing or hanging over a few mins or several hours when overloaded with connections (Keep reading for Solution). Now I mention bittorrent as this is very heavy on the connections, I am using ABC 3.0.0, but most other clients are the same to be quite frank. The work around solution is not to use the PPPoA feature on the modem, and use the modem as a direct BRIDGE. This is configured in the setup modem drop down list. Once the modem is configured as a bridge and DHCP server turned off, the router can be configured to use PPPoE/PPPoA in my case PPPoE as my UK ISP supports it. Problem solved!

(3) Now for the DGL-4300: I have read so many forums about problems and issues regarding this router, but my first comment would be dont assume the router is always at fault. In most cases it wont be!!! My only comments on this would be the 3 areas for port configuration are fine as they provide, single port fowarding, port range forwarding and triggered port forwarding. GAMEFUEL I now have configured as default and automatic after trying several methods I am happy with the default settings. But if you really really want something below or higher than everything else use 255 for low priority items and 128 for high priority items whilst Auto is still enabled as disabling this will only cause more headaches.

Hope some of this advice has been helpful for someone, any questions just ask!!!

Regards Nick]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14519788 Thu, 06 Oct 2005 17:55:33 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14008575 joe_dude : kareshi, are you sure that the DGL-4300 is slower? If you turn *off* Gamefuel, the performance should be similar to the DI-604.

With the inconsistent performance of torrents in general, I dunno how you can really tell. Did bandwidth tests show the DGL-4300 to be slower?

With Gamefuel enabled, there is a good chance that bittorrent speed is affected because connections could be assigned lower priorities and the possibility of too many connections for Gamefuel to handle.

Generally, I found better bitcomet performance by increasing number of connections, and lowering upload speed to 75% of maximum.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14008575 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:37:29 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14008470 kareshi7 : The router freezed.. it was able to reach 150kB/s download however.. because I started more downloading tasks.. anyway, i had to unplug the power because none of the LAN PCs could access the router.. just to let u know..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14008470 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 23:23:39 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14007894 kareshi7 : oh I also changed the MTU from Auto to 1500]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14007894 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:12:11 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14007883 kareshi7 : Update: I did the following and things seem to be better, although the download rate is still not as good as with my DI-604..

1. Turned on Auto Classification
2. Turned on Dynamic Fragmentation
3. Deselect all ALG

BT speed can go up to 100kB/s download so far at 30-40kB/s upload. I also limit maximum # of connections per task to 30. I got the above when I had 7 simultaneous downloads. I hesitate to start more tasks though.

Now, while I can achieve the download rate above, my MSN and ICQ are still working fine..and browsing is fast. I will update you to see if this connection persists.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14007883 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 22:11:10 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14007253 tc17 : "Ouch, sorry to hear that. I post a message a while ago asking for people's opinion of 4300 working with BT, as I would like to replace my 704p. From your experience I guess 4300 won't do a good job with Bitcomet then."
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Don't judge the router from one or a few peoples comments. Many different things could affect this.

There are far more people who think this is the best router of any.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14007253 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:59:44 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004867 Innuendo : If the router is reporting that it cannot create new sessions then that means that the routing table is getting full. The only thing that will fix that is if your BitTorrent client allows you to limit the number of sources/sessions.

The bad thing is that D-Link or their chipset OEM is very vague about what the router and chipset can handle. They only say "can handle thousands of concurrent connections." If that "thousands" is only two thousand then that's not much at all.

P2P apps will consume thousands upon thousands of concurrent connections if you let them. The more concurrent connections the faster your files will download. Unfortunately, too many and your internet connection will choke and die. You will have to experiment to find a happy medium.

You will either have to limit your connections in BitTorrent or live with things the way they are now or quit using BitTorrent altogether which may not be a bad idea the way the RIAA and MPAA are really focusing on BT users.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004867 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 15:45:36 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004371 anon : Have you tried limiting the upload inside the BT client? (which you actually should anyways)

Or manually setting the priority?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004371 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:37:18 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004287 jinino : Ouch, sorry to hear that. I post a message a while ago asking for people's opinion of 4300 working with BT, as I would like to replace my 704p. From your experience I guess 4300 won't do a good job with Bitcomet then.

Are you going to return this router anytime after you try every possible setting?]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004287 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:27:30 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004121 kareshi7 : Yes.. ports are forwarded in Virtual Server and i created an entry in Gaming.. I tried almost all settings.. Game Fuel on and off, auto classification on and off, dynamic defrag off.. :(]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14004121 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:08:37 EDT Re: DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14003739 boojiboy71 : I'm a bittorrent newbie, (so forgive me if you've done this) but did you remember to open up the required ports with the new DGL-4300? I just got one myself, but haven't tried bittorrent since I got it.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14003739 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 13:20:27 EDT DGL-4300 and bittorrent http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14001933 kareshi7 : I bought the DGL-4300 and expected it to work better than my DI-604. My experience is that it doesn't. The router drops packets and internet would be jammed if I use bittorrent. For example, after BitComet has been running for a while, I cannot resolve any domain name and therefore cannot access any website. The download speed will be very slow too.. eventually, all other connections will be dropped such as MSN and ICQ. When I go to the router log, it would show entries saying packets are dropped because it cannot create new session.. what the %Y@^#@^#Q% i expect it to handle more connections than my DI-604??

Does anyone have any solution or similar experience??.. I am with Rogers in Toronto, Canada..]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,14001933 Thu, 28 Jul 2005 09:32:17 EDT