Help With Adsl Router

[gcrutcher]

I hope some of you can help me.

I download a lot of movies. I leave my computer on during the day while I am at work so

I can download movies. If my internet connection stops, I stop downloading and do not

find out about it until I get home from work.

I need to be able to ping the website I am downloading from, and after five minutes of inactivity, need

to reset my modem so my internet connection starts up again.

I am using TOT in Pattaya and sometimes the internet light goes off and does not come on again until I reboot the router.

Any help would be appreciated.

Gary

[RKASA]

This may sound funny, but when I used AOL back when it would do this to me every 30 minutes. if I did not do something other then downloading.  to keep the connecti

on alive I 

had a news ticker I would run and as long as the news ticker and its low bandwidth was 

running the connection was maintained all night long.  Just a tought. 

[nikster]

I hope some of you can help me.

I download a lot of movies. I leave my computer on during the day while I am at work so

I can download movies. If my internet connection stops, I stop downloading and do not

find out about it until I get home from work.

I need to be able to ping the website I am downloading from, and after five minutes of inactivity, need

to reset my modem so my internet connection starts up again.

I am using TOT in Pattaya and sometimes the internet light goes off and does not come on again until I reboot the router.

Any help would be appreciated.

Gary

Things to do, in this order:

- Set your connection mode to "keep alive" or "nailed up connection" rather than "on demand". You can set this by accessing the router via its web interface and changing the settings there, or call up TOT and have them come over and do it for you. In this mode, the router will keep the connection open as long as it can, and if it drops - this is TOT after all - it will try to reconnect every 30 seconds or every minute.

- If your router doesn't allow this, get another router.

- If your router dies because your bittorrent connections are just too much for it to handle, get another router. I had this happen with my Zyxel router - bittorrent would kill it within 5 minutes.

[gcrutcher]

I hope some of you can help me.

I download a lot of movies. I leave my computer on during the day while I am at work so

I can download movies. If my internet connection stops, I stop downloading and do not

find out about it until I get home from work.

I need to be able to ping the website I am downloading from, and after five minutes of inactivity, need

to reset my modem so my internet connection starts up again.

I am using TOT in Pattaya and sometimes the internet light goes off and does not come on again until I reboot the router.

Any help would be appreciated.

Gary

Things to do, in this order:

- Set your connection mode to "keep alive" or "nailed up connection" rather than "on demand". You can set this by accessing the router via its web interface and changing the settings there, or call up TOT and have them come over and do it for you. In this mode, the router will keep the connection open as long as it can, and if it drops - this is TOT after all - it will try to reconnect every 30 seconds or every minute.

- If your router doesn't allow this, get another router.

- If your router dies because your bittorrent connections are just too much for it to handle, get another router. I had this happen with my Zyxel router - bittorrent would kill it within 5 minutes.

Thank you.

My router - a TOT router - has the On Demand option unchecked.

Keep Alive is set at 10 minutes. Idle Timeout: 60 seconds

This is the way it has been since I was set up.

Gary

[nikster]

In that case, why does your download "stop"?

Either your router is not reconnecting - but it should, given the settings.

Or whatever you use to download is just breaking off. In that case, you'd need to use a better program to do downloads, a program that reconnects.

For normal downloads Flashget has options to retry and I think they are on by default. You can set it to retry up to 99 times or even unlimited, set the interval it's retrying at etc. It will get your stuff. It's also very fast. And free just google for it.

For Bittorrent, I think all BT clients do that, I use Azureus and it certainly continues downloading as soon as the conection is back.

[gcrutcher]

Hello,

Maybe I should clarify things about the router: the green internet light goes off and does not come back on.

The application I am using is still trying to download movies when I get home but cannot due to no internet connection.

Gary

[nikster]

Ah yes, that clarifies things. In that case, get a new router.

What should be happening is that the internet goes out, and then comes back on, and the router reconnects. That should not require a manual restart from your end.

My old Zyxel router / DSL modem did that no problem, and my new Linksys ADSL modem does that too. The Linksys was BHT 1300. I also had a cheapo Billion router before that constantly needed manual resets. So there are definitely differences between the different routers.

If you download a lot of stuff, I can only recommend what I have installed

- Cheapo Linksys ADSL modem - can't remember the name but it was just BHT 1300, small. That is in "bridge" mode which means all routing functions are turned off and it acts like a plain DSL modem.

- Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato firmware. The "L" at the end is very important - Tomato doesn't work on any other model. You can Google for Tomato, it's easy to install and free. Tomato WAN setting is "bridge" and Tomato does the routing. Advantages to using Tomato is that it is a total monster for bittorrent, doesn't crash ever, reconnects no problem, and best of all shows you a very nice 24 hour graph of your total incoming/outgoing bandwidth.

The WRT54GL is also a wireless router if you want that - I don't need this function and just turned off its radio.

Now even though I say this is "easy" it is probably not so easy for non-geeks. Only if you are comfortable with upgrading your router's firmware. If not, I would just get the shop to install it for you. You just have to find a sufficiently technical shop.

Edited November 5, 2007 by nikster

[gcrutcher]

Ah yes, that clarifies things. In that case, get a new router.

What should be happening is that the internet goes out, and then comes back on, and the router reconnects. That should not require a manual restart from your end.

My old Zyxel router / DSL modem did that no problem, and my new Linksys ADSL modem does that too. The Linksys was BHT 1300. I also had a cheapo Billion router before that constantly needed manual resets. So there are definitely differences between the different routers.

If you download a lot of stuff, I can only recommend what I have installed

- Cheapo Linksys ADSL modem - can't remember the name but it was just BHT 1300, small. That is in "bridge" mode which means all routing functions are turned off and it acts like a plain DSL modem.

- Linksys WRT54GL with Tomato firmware. The "L" at the end is very important - Tomato doesn't work on any other model. You can Google for Tomato, it's easy to install and free. Tomato WAN setting is "bridge" and Tomato does the routing. Advantages to using Tomato is that it is a total monster for bittorrent, doesn't crash ever, reconnects no problem, and best of all shows you a very nice 24 hour graph of your total incoming/outgoing bandwidth.

The WRT54GL is also a wireless router if you want that - I don't need this function and just turned off its radio.

Now even though I say this is "easy" it is probably not so easy for non-geeks. Only if you are comfortable with upgrading your router's firmware. If not, I would just get the shop to install it for you. You just have to find a sufficiently technical shop.

Thank you.

I will check out the other adsl modems.

Gary