{"id":582,"date":"2007-03-26T10:01:36","date_gmt":"2007-03-26T09:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/26\/old-linksys-wrt54gglgs-routers-running-any-p2p-app\/"},"modified":"2007-03-26T10:01:39","modified_gmt":"2007-03-26T09:01:39","slug":"old-linksys-wrt54gglgs-routers-running-any-p2p-app","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2007\/03\/26\/old-linksys-wrt54gglgs-routers-running-any-p2p-app\/","title":{"rendered":"Old Linksys WRT54G\/GL\/GS routers running any P2P app"},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"right\" width=\"35%\"class=\"std_box\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>The following note does NOT apply to WRT54G\/GS v5\/v6\/v7s! Use the latest official firmware (1.00.9+) with those; They do not suffer from this specific problem (though they do suffer from different problems).\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>A little bit of information I collected from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utorrent.com\/faq.php\">uTorrent FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for the latest DD-WRT and HyperWRT Thibor) have a severe problem where they track old connections <strong>for FIVE days<\/strong>, which causes the router to hang when using P2P apps, or any software that generates a lot of connections. DHT only aggravates the situation because of the number of connections it generates.<\/p>\n<p>You should upgrade the firmware of your router, if it has this kind of problem, using one of these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thibor.co.uk\/\">HyperWRT Thibor (14+) (54G\/GL\/GS only, excluding hardware revision V5 of 54G\/GS)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dd-wrt.org\/\">DD-WRT (v23+)(54G\/GL\/GS excluding hardware revision V5 of 54G)<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But be sure to follow the instructions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Do not modify the firmware over the WiFi link (it may stop in the middle killing your router)<\/li>\n<li>Check what version should be used<\/li>\n<li>Follow the additional steps for the HyperWRT upgrade<\/li>\n<li>Follow the additional steps for the DD-WRT upgrade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following note does NOT apply to WRT54G\/GS v5\/v6\/v7s! Use the latest official firmware (1.00.9+) with those; They do not suffer from this specific problem (though they do suffer from different problems). A little bit of information I collected from the uTorrent FAQ. The default firmware for Linksys (and all replacement firmwares except for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-p2p","category-routers-networks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}