Help with Mweb Uncapped

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I been using Mweb 384 uncapped for a while now.

Recently I been having a problem where my connection often drops and I have to reset my router. I can't even connect to my router. I will be happily browsing some sites. Then all pages start taking forever to load, then they eventually stop loading, and i am forced to reset the router, or after a few minutes, its back to normal again. This has been an issue for about just over a week now.

I am not sure if this is a router problem or a connection problem.

What can i do to diagnose and sort out?
 
Any tests i can run on the router to confirm its the problem?
 
Sound like a good idea. Will definitely try that
 
Yip, I have the same problem and have always assumed it was because I got a cheap wireless intellinet router. My problem usually arises when someone else uses a device on the network (eg cellphone browsing, another PC etc) and then it boots us all off and I have to reset my router. Sometimes I need to do it twice before I get connectivity again.

I'll try the firmware upgrade option too.
 
catweasel said:
I been using Mweb 384 uncapped for a while now.

Recently I been having a problem where my connection often drops and I have to reset my router. I can't even connect to my router. I will be happily browsing some sites. Then all pages start taking forever to load, then they eventually stop loading, and i am forced to reset the router, or after a few minutes, its back to normal again. This has been an issue for about just over a week now.

I am not sure if this is a router problem or a connection problem.

What can i do to diagnose and sort out?
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I had a similar problem with a linksys adsl router. Torrents were opening hundreds of connections causing the router to slow down and eventually stop responding. If I put the router into bridge mode, and dialed the pppOE connection from my pc, then everything was fine. I eventually replaced the router with something more beefy.
 
As of late I am having the same problem as well, on MWEB 384 uncapped. And I have the MWEB Billion router. This has been happening alot lately, I only hope it gets resolved soon.
 
I actually have been experiencing the same thing for a while and had to keep resetting the router.I was using the adsl router that I got from telkom . I then ended up switching to a billion router and that seemed to have sorted out the issue.
 
mister said:
I had a similar problem with a linksys adsl router. Torrents were opening hundreds of connections causing the router to slow down and eventually stop responding. If I put the router into bridge mode, and dialed the pppOE connection from my pc, then everything was fine. I eventually replaced the router with something more beefy.
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Linksys WRT54 is a beefy router.

Torrents could also be an issue - how do you limit the number of connections?

From the other posts this seems to be a common problem regardless of the router make - MWeb Operations, can you give some feedback?
 
The understanding I have is that has to do with the NAT table on the router being overloaded by the number of connections being opened by bittorrent.
Over time this causes the router to slow down and eventually require resetting. Some routers seem to be more prone to this than others and I have seen reports of firmware upgrades improving the situation.
Reducing the number of active connections in your torrent client and the amount of files that you have running concurrently should also help.
 
Thanks for the feedback Mweb. Will try the suggestions.
 
I tried limiting the number of connections - no change in whats been happening lately.

Somehow i dont think this is the problem. I ran torrents long before this problem started. This is something very recent. Anybody else had a similar experience?
 
Used to have exactly the same thing on my old crappy Telkom supplied router. FTP would also completely crash the router, ridiculous.

Check your line attenuation and noise margin as well, but its probably your router dying. I haven't ever used a Billion router, but almost every thread popping up here with some router related problem, the name Billion seems to come up time and time again. Definitely a brand I would stay clear of. Come to think of it, my dead switches are Billion.
 
If the router becomes inaccessible then it is the router.
 
Damn.

Wish i could test this somehow. Dont want to just buy a new router without testing it somehow.
 
I upgraded the firmware on my router. Looks like it has sorted out the problem. I wil monitor and update this thread if needed.
 
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