Kirkx
join:2006-09-20
Toronto, ON
4 edits | Time zone problems: st516v6 firmware 7.4.3.2
SpeedTouch 516v6 firmware v7.4.3.2
Time zone set to:
(UTC -05:00) Eastern Time USA/Canada
won't stick. After the modem restarts, it resets itself to:
(UTC -05:00) Bogota, Lima, Quito
which is the same as Eastern Time but without DST. For more details you can look at post #3 and #4 here:
»ST 516v6 firmware 7.4.3.2 upgrade errors
What about if you just change that to:
UTC/GMT with "summer time" turned off.
»img150.imageshack.us/img150/1063···6tz8.png
This time zone sticks, it won't move after restart one notch up to Casablanca time.
I'm wondering what kind of effect, if any, setting the time zone to UTC/GMT might have on the connection. It seems that there should be none whatsoever, but who knows, the life in the tech world is full of surprises. |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Hi,
I'm afraid i don't use this version anymore
and there's no reason for me to install it
again since tweaking with v6.1.0.5 became
a necessity over here lately... What i can
advise you to do is to take a close look at
'user.ini', looking for the "Wizard" keyword
inside. The .TPL "template" files found on
the CD are another avenue to investigate. |
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Kirkx
join:2006-09-20
Toronto, ON
2 edits | reply to Kirkx
Thanks. I didn't find any references to the time zone in the Wizard section:
»img519.imageshack.us/img519/281/···7ta1.png
but there is one in the System section:
»img150.imageshack.us/img150/6995···2js6.png
settime timezone=-05:00 daylightsaving=enabled
This would suggest that any references to specific cities within a given time zone seen in the GUI can be safely ignored. The only thing that matters is the offset from UTC and the DST flag (on/off). The time zone:
(UTC -05:00) Bogota, Lima, Quito
should work just fine, as long as the DST flag is set to:
Summer Time: Yes
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All the above can be confirmed when you go to Telnet. Leave [geotimezonename] and [rtc] blank (rtc = real time clock, not supported in v7.4.3.2).
1) menu - system - settime - enter all settings - tab - ok
»img229c.imageshack.us/img229/222···4up2.png
(to exit "menu" mode: hit "two dots" or tab-cancel)
2) To verify the new settings:
=> system settime
»img301.imageshack.us/img301/7948···3zp9.png
Here the "time zone name" is simply shown as:
(UTC-05:00)
Now, when you go to GUI it is shown as:
(UTC -05:00) Bogota, Lima, Quito
»img129.imageshack.us/img129/8990···4ui3.png
It obviously looks like a GUI programming bug. |
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Kirkx
join:2006-09-20
Toronto, ON
| reply to Kirkx
Well, time zone naming is just buggy in both CLI and GUI. After shutoff/restart (both PC and modem) I also lost my custom date/time (no big deal but probably shouldn't happen).
Time Zone Name in the CLI for some reason changed to:
(UTC-01:00)
while the Time Zone itself is still (UTC-05:00):
»img228c.imageshack.us/img228/307···5yh3.png
In the GUI, time zone name didn't change, still stuck in Colombia just as it was before:
»img515.imageshack.us/img515/4688···9oe0.png
For now I'll just leave it at that, assuming this to be just a bug affecting the names and not core functions. Overall, I find this version superior to v6.1.9.6 I had before. I was able to increase RWIN from 29040 to 39204 and could probably go much higher than that, with zero packet loss in Tweak Test. |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24 | Thank you for this information. I'll try to
remember about your comment relative to RWIN. |
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Kirkx
join:2006-09-20
Toronto, ON
| reply to Kirkx
When we are talking about RWIN, would you suggest to keep increasing the number until "transfer efficiency" drops below 100% (retransmitted packets start to show)? I could never get RWIN in 40,000 area before and I'm not sure how far beyond that (50000, 60000) it is reasonable to go.
»img228c.imageshack.us/img228/218···7fm9.png |
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Bicephale
join:2005-09-24 | That's a tougher one, i never needed to mind about this as i'm a "light" user, i guess...
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