Help WRT610N v1

[woodscomp]

Well I have had my WRT610N v1 for about three years now and just this week switched from Uverse back to cable which meant a total reset of the router.

My only issue that I can not seem to get a grip on is when any of my wired devices are using bandwidth such as watching videos on youtube whatever all of my wireless clients lose there Internet.

The only work around I have come up with is to disable UPnP totally. The issue with this is I have a lot of devices through the house that benefit from UPnP that now I will have to forward ports for etc...

Anyone know of a workaround for this?

 

[stevech]

"lose there Internet"
What are the specific symptoms? WiFi Clients maintain association on WiFi but Internet responses slow to a crawl?

Could this simply be that your Internet service lacks the capacity to simultaneously stream from the Internet and service other PCs?

Guess it could be a faulty/crummy router, but it's odd that the wireless clients are affected by the wired PCs activities, other than the fact that all wired/wireless share the available service capacity (speed). If you have a cable modem rather than DSL, I'd think you have a lot of excess capacity, like 10-20Mbps and a YouTube stream is maybe 200Kbps.

PS: Why did you switch back from U-Verse ? My neighbor tried it and it was a total farce.

 

[woodscomp]

well what happens is that the wireless clinets on PC's will get the "caution" symbol over there wireless connection and it completely shuts down there ability to do anything on the internet. No page loads etc.. This only happens when I am running any kind of video content on the wired pc. I have disabled the upnp for now, and they don't freeze now. But I would like to get this fixed right.

I had Uverse for a year, at first it was great customer service for a good price with rock solid internet speeds but with sucky live HD feeds.

The last six months was non existent customer service with horrible billing practices with internet that was shaky.

Once the year promotion price was over and there was NO talking them into a decent price it was time to leave.

The shining thing they do have is a DVR that can record upto 4 streams at once. That in itself was worth some of the hassle, but it wasn't worth it at $128 a month for TV and Internet