Telkom 5102G incredibly slow LAN pings

[Beluga]

Hey there,

I've gone and bought myself one of those black Telkom 5102G ADSL modem/routers. Looks pretty nice, and was quite easy to set up.

I'm just not exactly blown away by it's LOCAL (As in - on my LAN) response times.

Usually I get a decent response - say 1 - 2 milliseconds from both ethernet connected, and wireless clients. But at other times it goes to 34-50ms from these clients!!

Can anyone offer any explanations for this? I quite often have to push large (a few 100MBs) of data from the wired segment to wireless clients -- they're usually a few rooms away. Could it be that I overload the radio and overheat the router or something like that? Seems strange.. I used to live in South Korea and I used to use a Linksys WRT54G and it never had any issues like that...

Thanks!!
Beluga..

PS.. I was supposed to get my ADSL line activated today, telkom called last week.. I went in to the Telkom shop this morning to confirm, they said yea.. By 4pm they hadn't contacted me yet - so I went back.. Just seems everyone went missing - so no ADSL for me until goodness knows L

 

[Nameite]

Welcome to the forum

I also got me one of those and ping time is always <1ms from wireless to wired and visa versa.
Just keep sending large files, if it breaks just go swap it out. Does it feel hot by the way? If it feels too hot 50 degrees plus, u might need to put it in a well ventilated area.

 

[daysleeper]

i stream movies over mine for hours and even when the signal is not great, like at the swimming pool, the ping never goes more than 4ms. this is with 2 other pcs wired to rj45s and download of the net.

something is not right with your setup. does the router feel hot?

 

[bekdik]

Check your ip settings - make sure that all of your devices are on the same subnet. Make sure that you don't have two dhcp servers on your net.

 

[Beluga]

Hey, thanks for the replies guys!

It does seem a bit strange - especially if I have not used it for a few hours. When I start using it exhibits the long pings I've explained, but then after little while it seems to start working fine. Seems like it has to "warm up" a bit... heh

And no, it doesn't feel particularly warm.

When it does go I can transfer files for hours on end as well.. Just the other night I did a 50GB rsync backup to my Linux machine through the wireless and it was fine...

I'll try it for another while and see how it goes

Thanks again!
Beluga