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Downloading fast crashs my Internet connection
Downloading on Wuala crashs my Internet connection.
I have a 25MB/s downstream connection. My ports are open for Wuala but the Connection Test tells me that I have a connection type "B". It has always been like this and Wuala worked perfectly. But 1-2 months ago it started to crash my whole internet connection whenever I download faster than 1MB/s. Often it takes 5-10 minutes and suddenly my connection is gone. It took some time until I found out that Wuala is responsable for the crash. :E
Any suggestions?
I have a 25MB/s downstream connection. My ports are open for Wuala but the Connection Test tells me that I have a connection type "B". It has always been like this and Wuala worked perfectly. But 1-2 months ago it started to crash my whole internet connection whenever I download faster than 1MB/s. Often it takes 5-10 minutes and suddenly my connection is gone. It took some time until I found out that Wuala is responsable for the crash. :E
Any suggestions?
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Inappropriate?Wuala, being P2P, uses many UDP connections. This can stress certain consumer grade routers and modems. I had to hack some settings on my DSL modem to make it more stable.
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Inappropriate?My VDSL-Connection is installed with a splitter and a modem (=router). So I guess it MUST be the modem... because there is no "other" router in my Network. A download via WLAN-Connection with a different PC also results in a disconnect.
Perhaps I should concentrate more on port-forwarding?
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Inappropriate?test what happens when you use the compatibility mode. With it, Wuala uses tcp only and do not use the p2p cloud. We ́ll trading will not be possible when activated, but you can test if udp is the problem.
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Inappropriate?Okay, after some tests I can say: The problem still exists! Due to the disabled udp connection our maximum download speed was ~2,5 MB/s (remember: 25MB/s possible). But it didn't help. We had several disconnects while downloading. Reducing our downloadspeed is no option in my opinion...
What I can't understand: Everything worked perfect a few months ago. Fast downloads with other software never kills our connection. Weird!
I’m confused
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there were no changes in Wuala in the code for up- and download.... -
Inappropriate?Do you know if the gateway modem (your vdsl modem) is running linux? Can you telnet to it?1 Comment Add a comment
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Also what is the brand & model number?
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Inappropriate?Again: Thank you all very much for your support! :-)
My Modem: "Deutsche Telekom Speedport W721V WLan-Router (4025125020852) Wireless"
http://uk.shopping.com/xPF-Deutsche-T...
More (and I hope enough) infos are shown there.
I tried to telnet to my modem (telnet 192.168.2.1 - which is the correct ip of my modem). First I had to enable telnet under vista and then used the command above. It looked like it found my modem after a second (if the IP is not correct it usually takes more than 10 seconds and then the window closes). But nothing happened except of that the window closed after 1 second.
So it looks to me as if the gateway does not run linux. What I can do is connect to my gateway through my browser... that's what I always do. I can even load configurations, update my firmware, and so on.
Firware of this modem: Version: 64.04.74 (this is the pre-installed firmware AND the latest available firware for my modem).
I’m undecided
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Inappropriate?I did see a few reports of people discussing having trouble with that and similar VDSL modems. Since I don't know German I'm not sure if I can figure out what options you may have to make the modem more robust.
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Inappropriate?ow you did see similar problems? I googled and couldn't find something. Any links?
I’m excited
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http://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewt...
I thought I found another, but can't seem to now. Was a long day and had internet troubles myself, dying hard drive. The usual ;). Maybe I imagined it, after translating so many pages to a poor english and trying to decipher it I could see anything I wanted.
Only thing I can recommend, is if you can try borrowing another VDSL modem and see if it does the same thing.
As for it working a few months ago, the number of connections varies whenever they change anything. They did reduce it quite a bit a few months ago, maybe its picked up some more bulk. -
Inappropriate?Oh I like getsatisfaction. There was a thread one or two moth before with an french user using adsl2+ with the same modem. I have the getsatisfaction link, but it isnt avialble anymore. +grrr+
He had similar problems. Adsl2+ in france is afaik similar to vdsl+ in Germany. He could solve the problem by reducing his connection to "usal" adsl2 as far as I remember.
I also can not found the speedport threads here anymore (nice search system, really). As far as I remember, it was as said a problem of too much udp traffic.
Ah - one point I remember. Did you have DDOS-protection enabled in your router?
This could also cause such problems. The high udp-traffic will be noticed as a Denial of Service Attack from this function and the modem will reset to get a new IP...3 Comments Add a comment
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DDOS protection. Now there's a feature I have never seen before. But then again I saw a captcha on a router for the first time last week.
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its a "feature" of some routers I ́ve seen. Just counting the udp-packets. Iftoo much udp packets come in, its decided that is a ddos an restart. Very clever function.
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Sounds very close to hitting the connection limit, crashing and rebooting.
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Inappropriate?Wow, thank you alot! I'am gonna test this now. Seems to be a plausible explanation!
I’m thankful
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Okay, unfortunately there aren't THAT many configurations for my modem and I don't have the possibility to test a different modem. I couldn't find a "DDOS" option or something like that. I guess only "telnet" can change this option then... but I couldn't get telnet working. But all in all I am pleased now because I know that my modem is the source of all evil. ;-)
This feeling of "being pleased" makes me patient enough to run Wuala with a max. downstream of 1-2MB/s (what crashs my connection very rarely).
Thank you all!
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