I have asked Linksys about this and so far, have heard nothing definite back.Really? I'm curious what LinkSys would have to say...
- I mean are they aware of this already?
- What will all currently sold units?
- Are they currently shipping units with a better heatsink?
Sent this link to the online chat support. I knew that person would never have heard of possible heat issue when both band are on intensive use but I asked to forward the engineers and hopefully they would think it is interesting enough to test it.I have asked Linksys about this and so far, have heard nothing definite back.
There are no other versions out with any "fixes", heatsinks or otherwise.
Thanks for the report, Mark. I don't know why they had you futz with those settings. I think the cooling improvement did the trick.
Evidence seems to be pointing toward heat-related issues with the product. The "UFO" design rules out standing the product up vertically, which would improve natural convection.
BTW, how long after powering on the router would it take to show problems and what sort of load was it under?
Thanks for the additional info.The router's on all the time so I haven't noticed how long after powering on it start to show problems ...
I bought one last week, replacing a perfectly good WRT52 rev2, so I could do Wireless N to my media center extender, and have G for most everything else.
I took the first router back after losing most of my sanity trying ro eliminate dropped wireless connections. The second one doesn't seem to be much better. TechSupport chat had me go from b17 to b18 FW (that didn't help). They had me dink with the default channels and bandwidth - to no avail. I've seen problems with various notebooks, a HP Touchsmart desktop, the MC Extender, and a nokia internet tablet. I'm firmly convinced that this thing is jinxed. Tempted to plug back in the WRT54 and get a cheap N router to add to it.
-Dale (silicon valley area)
You don't want to run a mix of draft 11n and 11g clients on the same radio. The throughput for both will suffer.
Try using only 11g devices on the 2.4GHz radio and connect your 11n notebooks to the 5GHz radio.
Also use WPA2 on any radio that is running 11n. Using WEP or WPA/TKIP will knock down your throughput by 50%.
I have it working stable now - but the reasons for this concern me.
First, after updating to B18 - it wasn't stable, so I reset to factory defaults (wiping out what the Linksys online tech had me do). I played with restricting 5GHZ to N, to limiting the second transceiver to 2.4GHz - that didn't seem to help.
However, changing both radios to using WPA2 and AES - seems to have stabled it out. The other day - I had an old laptop that I couldn't get working with AES, so I turned that off and went back to WEP / fixed key. At that point, the thing started with the connect/disconnect stuff. It was a bit better when I turned off all security, but it would still disconnect. I set it back to WPA2 personal and AES for all the newer devices, and its all working fine. Too weird. I haven't seen anything that would suggest this is a heat problem.
-Dale
I don't test LAN to LAN speed because testing a switch chip is more a test of the computers involved than the chip itself.Have you tested LAN to LAN wired speeds on this router?
the best speed I can get is from any system to another is 38% of Gigabit maximum (~46 MBytes/s). I've tried numerous protocols (SMB, FTP, SSH) all with about the same results.
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