Morac
Senior Member
After updating my RT-AC88U from 384.8_2 to 384.9, my Sony XBR55X930E Android (Oreo) TV started having network problems where the network (Ethernet) would get slow or simply die. I tried rebooting the TV and even unplugging it, but nothing stopped this from happening after a short while.
I did some digging and saw on the router connection log page that the TV had at least 100 open connections, mostly to Google’s servers and most with the same IP address and port (5228 and 443). The tools page on the router reported over 140 active connections. These connection didn’t appear to be closing.
Also the TV was making DHCP requests at least every 15 minutes and many times much more often than that.
From what I could tell, the TV was simply opening too many network connections until eventually the network died.
I reverted back to 384.8_2 and rebooted the TV and saw the TV open a bunch of connections, but they changed to the “CLOSED” or “Time wait” state on the router connections log page. These eventually went away leaving a single connection. There was also one “unreplied” DNS query to 8.8.8.8 which must be hard coded somewhere since I’m not using that.
Under tools there are now 60 active connections.
So basically under 384.9 the TV’s network connections never closed (or closed slowly) and the TV made tons of unneeded DHCP requests. Under 384.8_2, the TV is closing it’s unused connections and is making normal DHCP requests.
I’m at a complete loss as for why this would happen, but there’s obviously something in 384.9 that the TV does not like (or vice-versa).
I posted this in the 384.9 thread, but figured I’d post it in its own thread since this seems like a major problem.
@RMerlin any idea what could cause this?
I did some digging and saw on the router connection log page that the TV had at least 100 open connections, mostly to Google’s servers and most with the same IP address and port (5228 and 443). The tools page on the router reported over 140 active connections. These connection didn’t appear to be closing.
Also the TV was making DHCP requests at least every 15 minutes and many times much more often than that.
From what I could tell, the TV was simply opening too many network connections until eventually the network died.
I reverted back to 384.8_2 and rebooted the TV and saw the TV open a bunch of connections, but they changed to the “CLOSED” or “Time wait” state on the router connections log page. These eventually went away leaving a single connection. There was also one “unreplied” DNS query to 8.8.8.8 which must be hard coded somewhere since I’m not using that.
Under tools there are now 60 active connections.
So basically under 384.9 the TV’s network connections never closed (or closed slowly) and the TV made tons of unneeded DHCP requests. Under 384.8_2, the TV is closing it’s unused connections and is making normal DHCP requests.
I’m at a complete loss as for why this would happen, but there’s obviously something in 384.9 that the TV does not like (or vice-versa).
I posted this in the 384.9 thread, but figured I’d post it in its own thread since this seems like a major problem.
@RMerlin any idea what could cause this?
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