Prateek Dayal

Speeding up the linksys Wireless Router WRT 54G

November 9th, 2008 by Prateek Dayal |

We have a BSNL Dataone connection and a linksys wireless router for internet sharing and LAN. However lately the router had been extremely slow and would hang somtimes, forcing us to reboot it every now and then. I installed the DD-WRT firmware on it but that did not help much either (although it helped in several other ways, one being using the access point as a wifi client and not an access point). Recently Prasanna told me about a problem with the router while using bit torrent which can be fixed with some settings in DD-WRT. Turns out that bit torrents open up a lot of network connections and that loads the non-enterprise routers (like WRT 54G) and hangs them up.

There is a way to fix it listed on the DD-WRT wiki and it worked in first go. The router has been behaving pretty well since then and there is a noticable difference in the network speed and responsiveness. If you are facing an issue too, do try it out.

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bit torrent, dd-wrt

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5 Comments

Vaibhav

November 9 08 at 7:51 am

Interesting post Prateek. I however use Tomato.Tomato does almost everything DD-WRT does—from Wi-Fi signal boosting to Quality of Service bandwidth allocation—in addition to offering a simplified interface chock-full of fancy charts and graphs.
Thought of sharing.
Cheers
Vaibhav
Prateek Dayal

November 9 08 at 9:21 am

Oh I have not tried that. Thanks for sharing .. I will check it out .. when its ok to mess around with the network again :)
Nimo

November 9 08 at 2:20 pm

I think this should be in tech home category.
al

January 3 09 at 8:30 am

my daughter moved out of state and i tried to hook up her router but i need to change the password because she can’t remember the old one could you help – is their a way to change it
Tony Travolta

April 17 09 at 3:15 pm

Al, you cannot change to new password without the old password. Even if you backup the configuration settings, full reset the router and backup the settings, your old password will also be backed up.

So, the best solution is to full reset the router and re-configure it with the help of SETUP CD (alternate: Download setup application from Linksys website).