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Re: the firmware stinks im sorry, you misunderstand, log email, not my system email. the router has the ability to email the routers logs to you via its own firmware.
as for why i would want to limit, maybe i dont want one device on my network taking up all my bandwidth, how is my ISP going to limit that? they cant or maybe i want to prioritise one device on my network to get 80% of my download any time it wants it. QOS on my old microsoft wireless B router had it, QOS on my wrt54gl running tomato had it.. there really is no reason it shouldnt have it.
and, having UPnP enabled is just flat out a bad idea. first thing i did was disable UPnP on this thing, the logs was FULL of junk related to it. | | |
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| said by thedragonmas:im sorry, you misunderstand, log email, not my system email. the router has the ability to email the routers logs to you via its own firmware. I tried this on mine, and it did not work either. Its being blocked by charter, because it sends it out on the default mail port, which is what spam generating drones do, which is completely normal.
said by thedragonmas:as for why i would want to limit, maybe i dont want one device on my network taking up all my bandwidth, how is my ISP going to limit that? they cant or maybe i want to prioritise one device on my network to get 80% of my download any time it wants it. QOS on my old microsoft wireless B router had it, QOS on my wrt54gl running tomato had it.. there really is no reason it shouldnt have it. Why not just make sure your users have discretion? or setting QoS on that particular device? Or, if they are using too much bandwidth, just kick them off? There are plenty of other ways to limit these devices on the device end rather than QoS, and QoS in some ways will only make their experience worse: What if they are gaming, using netflix, or streaming something else? QoS will literally make this impossible, but if it suits you, use it on a per device status(nearly all devices support it, and things like the iphone cant pull that much anyways). Also, as far as this goes, its usually either by local IP address, or by MAC address, which can be changed in the blink of an eye to avoid this crap on the router, which means that its quite useless, and any of your "users" could easily bypass it if they wanted to. This falls to more of a discretion issue on your end, if your roommates are eating the bandwidth, kick them off.
said by thedragonmas:and, having UPnP enabled is just flat out a bad idea. first thing i did was disable UPnP on this thing, the logs was FULL of junk related to it.
What you were probably seeing was the logs of all the different devices requesting different UPnP ports to be reserved to them. This also happens on my router. this is normal for UPnP at first, and if you have a lot of devices, it will show up in the logs that you would notice. UPnP allows you to skip port forwarding for every device and every service on each device, and will prevent port conflicts, so unless you have a really good reason to disable it, its not a good idea, and simply causes a ton more work for yourself. | |
| you cant do that from the device end for a wii. a prime example of why this is flawed, last night i was uploading a video to facebook, it saturated my upload, i attempted to load netflix on my wii, it would not load at all. even though my wii has the highest priority in QOS. why? simple, the firmware only does priority for upload, not download. so even though the wii had highest priority it didnt mean jack because it was for upload only.
i know this works the way im trying to explain it to you because with my previous router uploading a video had no effect on my wii. why? because its QOS allowed for both download and upload priority.
so i stand by my OP, the firmware stinks for "above average" users. when my 2 years are up im putting ddwrt or tomato on this thing, thats assuming they didnt lock out that ability, and if they did, im going to be really PO'd. | |
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