Dmon Posted February 11, 2006 Report Posted February 11, 2006 Just thought I would let anyone that has the F5D8230-4 router know what I found while searching online."The Belkin F5D8230-4 only supports 253 connections -- so make sure that your BitTorrent client is configured so that is does not open more than 100 connections otherwise BitTorrent will LOCK-UP the Router forcing you to reboot."
chaosblade Posted February 11, 2006 Report Posted February 11, 2006 Thats incredibly lame. I hope you didnt pay alot for that router.
1c3d0g Posted February 11, 2006 Report Posted February 11, 2006 Yeah, poor sap. Stupid Belkin. I never liked any of their products anyway. :/
sergiorodrigues Posted February 13, 2006 Report Posted February 13, 2006 i have a F5D763632-4, you wouldnt know if it has the same problem ?how did you find out so i can do the same ?
Dmon Posted February 14, 2006 Author Report Posted February 14, 2006 Well, if your internet connection goes to crap after about a day, it might have the same problem.
Prent Posted February 20, 2006 Report Posted February 20, 2006 Actually, the limit is 253 clients (as in number of computers on your LAN), not 253 Internet connections. This won't affect torrenting.
rcnitrous7 Posted February 23, 2006 Report Posted February 23, 2006 thank you for clearing that up Prent, i have that (very good and fast) router and i was worried. for a few minutes.
Dmon Posted February 25, 2006 Author Report Posted February 25, 2006 Then why did limiting the connections fix the router's crapping out?
vylekreature Posted March 9, 2006 Report Posted March 9, 2006 Is this why I have a yellow network light for a bit that then goes red? I have read through the forum and used the portforward.com site to set up my static IP and to set up port forwarding for my actiontec modem and belkin routers with no trouble there. But I STILL get the red network light.So heres where I am:Network type: DSL (ISP - MSN through qwest [AZ])OS: WinXPSoftware Firewall: ZoneAlarm (free version, to poor to pay for it right now)Hardware Firewall: Whatever may be in the Belkin router or Actiontec modemPortforwarding: for router and firewall EXACTLY as outlined at portforward.comISP traffic shaping: UnknownRouter model: Belkin F5D7320-4Modem model:Actiontec GT701-WGPort that utorrent is set to: 32145 (randomly picked this, also tried several others too)I have spent a considerable amount of time going through manuals, helpfiles and tutorials, and STILL get a red light for this, I have tried using Azerus and get the same problems. I used one of those online port probes that sniff a specific port and they all come back as unable to detect. If someone would please point me in the right direction, that would be killer.
vylekreature Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 I had considered the fact that it may be ZA giving me a problem, so I tried running utorrent with ZA shutdown, and got the same results (red network indicator). Will uninstalling ZA actually make a difference? And what about the fact that I have the Belkin router with a model number before F5D8230-4?
Firon Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 Might. Shutting down rarely seems to work.Does your internet actually work on the router? If you connect directly to the modem, does it work?
vylekreature Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 Uninstalling ZA didn't change anything. >_<I still keep getting that cursed red network light even with no firewall at all. My current setup is DSL line>Router>compy. I get internet service just fine like that, I need to have the router setup because I live in a multi-user environment (my brother and myself). Getting really frustrated with this, I have been trying so hard to tweak my setting so this will work
Firon Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 If hook up to the modem directly as a test, does it work?
vylekreature Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 For some reason I get no internet when I hook directly into the modem. Only when I use the router, but it didnt used to be like that.
Firon Posted March 10, 2006 Report Posted March 10, 2006 You have to reboot the modem when you hook directly into the it.
vylekreature Posted March 11, 2006 Report Posted March 11, 2006 Well, I reconnectde the compy direct to the modem, rebooted both of them and still no internet. It's the damndest thing. BTW Firon, thx for helpin' me out some.
Firon Posted March 11, 2006 Report Posted March 11, 2006 Hmmm... Okay, try this. Connect to the modem, turn it off, restart your computer. While it's restarting, turn the modem back on. See if that works.
vylekreature Posted March 12, 2006 Report Posted March 12, 2006 No dice there Firon, tried it and still no internet :-( *needs the love that only utorrent can provide...*sigh*
vylekreature Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 Well, whatever the problem is that I am having, I seem to be doomed to the red light of...doom. Anyway, I seem to be getting download speeds of between 45 and 130 kB/sec and up speed of between 35 and 120 kB/sec. As far as I know this is a decent set of speeds. Could someone inform me if this is normal speed or am I suffering slower than usual speeds?
vylekreature Posted March 18, 2006 Report Posted March 18, 2006 If you mean the max up/down that I have set in utorrent, then its up=72kB/s down=unlimited when downloading, and after that i set it to: up=unlimited down=unlimited when just seeding.
nf0rc3r Posted April 13, 2006 Report Posted April 13, 2006 You can telnet ur router to increase its max connections. Read http://forum.utorrent.com/viewtopic.php?id=8475
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