With the ol' Linux box running over WiFi I ran into a problem I'd suspected was either down to the laptop or the access point. This meant it was the Netgear DG834g v2 - So I dropped Netgear a support question about it:
If I transfer any large file (larger than, say 20mb) from the wired PC to either of the other machines (or vice versa) the transfer will always fail over my LAN when using MS networking. If I use an FTP connection to the Fedora machine, the transfer will sometimes fail.
Their reply:
Regarding your concern, please assign static IP with DNS addresses to all your computers.
Soooo... I assume this means the router's DCHP, which is supposed to assign IPs (fixed, in my case by MAC), doesn't quite cut it...
Possibly related to the lease time for the DHCP IP assignment. It would appear that for this router when the lease time expires it drops all assignments including static ones. It then reassigns everything again within a few microseconds - just long enough for MS networking to drop the connection in the middle of a long transfer. However, for this to ALWAYS happen the lease time has got to be short - say 1 second. Have you the option to make your DHCP IP assigment lease time longer - say 1 week?
Or, it could be the DHCP IP lease time for the wirless clients only - if the problem only occurs for file transfers over the air. Again, can you increase this value?
I use a D-Link router: the DGL-4300, because it has my chip in it. But Netgear/Linksys and all the others also have some models with the same Ubicom chip.
In the USA it's very rare to have a ADSL modem and router combined. In-fact I've had the same ADSL modem for years now but have gone through 4 different routers as I moved from wired only, to b and then g and now gigabit wired with g. Next is one of the 802.11n models...
Possibly related to the lease time for the DHCP IP assignment. It would appear that for this router when the lease time expires it drops all assignments including static ones. It then reassigns everything again within a few microseconds - just long enough for MS networking to drop the connection in the middle of a long transfer. However, for this to ALWAYS happen the lease time has got to be short - say 1 second. Have you the option to make your DHCP IP assigment lease time longer - say 1 week?
Or, it could be the DHCP IP lease time for the wirless clients only - if the problem only occurs for file transfers over the air. Again, can you increase this value?
I use a D-Link router: the DGL-4300, because it has my chip in it. But Netgear/Linksys and all the others also have some models with the same Ubicom chip.
In the USA it's very rare to have a ADSL modem and router combined. In-fact I've had the same ADSL modem for years now but have gone through 4 different routers as I moved from wired only, to b and then g and now gigabit wired with g. Next is one of the 802.11n models...