yubi2
join:2003-05-22
Irvine, CA
| reply to phenry
Re: [general] BEFW11S4 v4 - stalled connections
I had the same problem on my Version 4. All downloads over a few MB and some web pages would stall. Downloads would usually stall after 300KB-1.5MB. I tried downloading files from different sites and it made no difference. I tried this on three different computers each running different versions of Windows -- XP Pro, W2K, and 98SE.
The problem occurred on both wired and wireless connection.
I spent quite a bit time troubleshooting the problem. I worked with Linksys quite a bit. They tried different things, but mostly had me playing with different MTU settings. Sometimes it seemed to help a little bit and I might go longer before stalling, but the problem never went away. They also had me re-flash the firmware with the same rev. since it is the only one released for version 4. Linksys said that they had no other reports of similar problems.
I did figure out something pretty interesting. If I cycled the power on the BEFW11S4, the first attempted download after coming back up would always be successful. I tried this many times, including some files over 100MB in size. However, after the first successful download, all subsequent downloads failed.
Linksys couldn't figure out the problem and recommended that I return the BEFW11S4 to the retailer. They felt that the unit was defective, although I think that it is more likely a bug in the firmware. I drive by their office nearly every day, and I offered to drop it off for them to check it out, but they weren't interested. Last week, I purchased a D-Link DI-614+ for $39 (after $20 rebate), and I returned the BEFW11S4.
I liked the BEFW11S4 otherwise. I thought it was really cool that I got one of the new version 4 units until I started to realize that I had a problem that was not going to be easily resolved. A friend of mine got a version 2 a few days earlier, and he's had no problems whatsoever.
[text was edited by author 2003-06-05 22:02:56] |
