Arthur Machlas wrote: > On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 3:30 PM, Celejar <celejar@gmail.com> wrote: > > > My ISP provided me with a "router" / modem, however the router is of > the extremely handicapped variety. Thus, I had to go into the > interface of the router/modem and tell it to act only as a gateway. > The only device that ever connects to that gateway is my linksys > router, so the ISP should have no way of telling how many devices are > actually connected to the router. > > At this point my best guess is that the OP has at least five, perhaps > more devices connected to one crappy little residential router, and it > is understandably not at all happy with the situation, so it is > flaking out. > > Maybe it's time to start perhaps some resource limits on your > connected devices via the router interface, or else tweak your Debian > system to not overhwelem the darned thing by lowering the maximum > number of simul requests, etc. > But if I buy a router with 4 LAN ports, it *should* offer good quality services for all the 4 ports, shouldn't it? AFAICR the manual (well, I never read manuals), it is said nowhere not to exploit `too much' the router! Your explanation might be the key to my problems, but what else can you buy if you need to connect >4 computers? If you want something a little bit `bigger' (hoping for `stronger' too), you need to buy some 20 or 40-port router, which is completely useless for me. -- Merciadri Luca See http://www.student.montefiore.ulg.ac.be/~merciadri/ I use PGP. If there is an incompatibility problem with your mail client, please contact me. We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. (Aldous Huxley)
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