Firewall causing loss

[Ham]

Wasn't too sure where to put this, but nehoo.

Ive got a new router in the hopes that it wont drop my internet connetion every 30 seconds during any kind of abnormal weather. The model Ive got is the Linksys WAG54GS. And its got an SPI firewall. Not good news, as now when im trying to play CSS i get a constant loss of about 40.

Ive tried single port forwarding, range port forwarding, range port triggering (last to under the range of 27001-27100) & the DMZ and it still gives me the same problem. The only way ive found of solving it so far is disabling the firewall totaly, wich for obvious reasons i dont want to do.

Anyone got any other ideas?

tyia

Afterthought: CSS use TCP or UDP packets?

 

[JN]

Thats pretty crappy mate. I would imagine that it's doing some kind of packet inspection and either dropping or delaying packets. Does it not have a way to turn advanced features off? All you really want is something to stealth your ports.

Wasn't too sure where to put this, but nehoo.

Ive got a new router in the hopes that it wont drop my internet connetion every 30 seconds during any kind of abnormal weather. The model Ive got is the Linksys WAG54GS. And its got an SPI firewall. Not good news, as now when im trying to play CSS i get a constant loss of about 40.

Ive tried single port forwarding, range port forwarding, range port triggering (last to under the range of 27001-27100) & the DMZ and it still gives me the same problem. The only way ive found of solving it so far is disabling the firewall totaly, wich for obvious reasons i dont want to do.

Anyone got any other ideas?

tyia

Afterthought: CSS use TCP or UDP packets?

 

[equk]

Do you have QoS options on the router?

Also have you tried a different firmware on it?

I've not read much good reviews about the linksys routers since they stopped making the WRT routers which are excellent.

There's a bit of info on problems etc here.

 

[Ham]

I have got QoS options on the router but nothing there looks particualy helpful. CSS uses several ports and i can only assign one at a time. On the i can change the QoS type from UDR, CDR & VBR. Would any of them help?

 

[Dav0s]

try updating or even just changing the firmware

 

[equk]

Some stuff on the QoS types from CISCO:

CBR (Continuous Bit Rate) to specify fixed bandwidth for voice or data traffic

UBR (Unspecific Bit Rate) for application that are none-time sensitive, such as e-mail

VBR (Variable Bite Rate) for Bursty traffic and bandwidth-sharing with other applications.

 

[Ham]

Time to get this sorted now my c2d PC is back up and running (ASRock pwn).

When i chose VBR it wants me too assign a Pcr Rates and Scr Rate. Google revealed nothing, any ideas anyone?

 

[deathwish]

are you using nvidia lan

if so i had some problems with packet loss and corrupt downloads from the nvidia drivers

 

[equk]

When i chose VBR it wants me too assign a Pcr Rates and Scr Rate. Google revealed nothing, any ideas anyone?

UBR should be ok, think it's also the default

 

[Ham]

I was but not now. Its the router casuing these problems for sure.

 

[Rastalovich]

Do u have any torrent stuff installed ?

If u bypass the router does it improve significantly ?

.. and check the link above, kinda skip over a load of the bad postings coz even reading a few of them u can imagine the real issues.

 

[Ham]

Well the problem goes away completly if i disable the SPI firewall. But for obvious reasons i don't really want to do that...

Ive tried by passing it but it dosn't make a difference.