Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago
NOTE: reboot is not always happening at the same time.
to reproduce: it's better to test few times.
most likely bug resides inside open source driver for broadcom ethernet
Original comment by spameden
on 9 Aug 2012 at 6:04
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This may not be a software problem. These routers are known to have issues with
bad capacitors in the power supply wall wart and the router itself. For
example, see: http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=56939
My WL-500W used to be perfectly stable when copying multiple gigabytes from a
fast file server on wired Ethernet to wireless or from Samba on the router
itself to wireless. Recently, the router was stable enough for web browsing,
but even downloading software from the net was enough to cause a reboot. I
thought I was running into this bug, but then I downgraded to r2624 which was
stable before and it was also unstable. After opening the router I saw an
obviously bad capacitor right by the toroidal inductor near the power input.
(To open, remove the rubber feet, unscrew the 4 screws hidden by rubber feet,
and remove the top.)
Original comment by boris.gj...@gmail.com
on 1 Oct 2012 at 5:09
>This may not be a software problem. These routers are known to have issues
with bad >capacitors in the power supply wall wart and the router itself. For
example, see: >http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=56939
No, it's not related to hardware at all.
I have r3323 right now. It's pretty stable, no reboots at all under heavy load,
the only problem is internet disconnects sometimes if there is a heavy load,
like there is no enough network bandwidth to keep connection alive.
>My WL-500W used to be perfectly stable when copying multiple gigabytes from a
fast >file server on wired Ethernet to wireless or from Samba on the router
itself to >wireless. Recently, the router was stable enough for web browsing,
but even >downloading software from the net was enough to cause a reboot. I
thought I was >running into this bug, but then I downgraded to r2624 which was
stable before and >it was also unstable. After opening the router I saw an
obviously bad capacitor >right by the toroidal inductor near the power input.
(To open, remove the rubber >feet, unscrew the 4 screws hidden by rubber feet,
and remove the top.)
Hm, interesting, after replacing capacitors inside the router has it fixed the
bug?
I don't think in my case it's capacitors - when AC dead router obviously wasn't
working at all, so I replaced capacitors in the AC.
If I do copy a lot over Samba / LAN-WIFI this issue is not happening, so most
likely it's not a hardware issue. It only happens if you do massive download
from the WAN.
Original comment by spameden
on 1 Oct 2012 at 5:36
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$ uptime
09:40:14 up 17 days, 12:07, load average: 0.24, 0.30, 0.20
P.S. I'm gonna try r2624 and report back shortly..
Original comment by spameden
on 1 Oct 2012 at 5:41
The AC adapter was bad too: it couldn't maintain a reasonable voltage under
load, and the 1200µF 10V output filtering cap was bulging. After replacing
that and the 1000µF 6.3V cap in the router that filters 3.3V power, my WL-500W
appears stable.
I'm just using as it as a switch, wireless AP and occasionally internal router,
and not as my Internet gateway. If you only have instability during heavy
Internet connection load, that seems more like a software issue.
Original comment by boris.gj...@gmail.com
on 1 Oct 2012 at 5:34
Well, in my case it's definitely not AC adapter or internal capacitors inside
router, it's firmware itself bugging.
I never had such issues on 2.4.20 Oleg's original firmware - it was stable as
f**k.
I have to use this new -rtn firmware due 802.11n card BCM43222 inside my router.
Original comment by spameden
on 1 Oct 2012 at 5:41
No useful info in issue
Original comment by lly.dev
on 16 Feb 2013 at 10:55
I don't care anymore, because I got rid of my WL-500gP v1, so you can close
this issue if you want.
Original comment by spameden
on 16 Feb 2013 at 11:19
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
spameden
on 9 Aug 2012 at 6:01