Steve Erbach
erbachs at gmail.com
Sun Apr 1 17:50:42 CDT 2012
Dear Group, I've worked with four different routers at home in the past half dozen years. I wonder if any of you have preferences for routers when it comes to maintaining a connection. What I mean is, I have a client for whom I make off-site data backups every once in a while. I log into his Windows server, ZIP up the critical folders to make a ZIP file 250MB -350MB in size. Then I use the tsclient capability of Windows Remote Desktop to just drag the file from his server to a folder on my system. I've got RoadRunner cable service and it's been very reliable. The upload from my client's server to my workstation takes maybe an hour. My original router, a DLink DI-614+ never gave me any problems with dropping the connection during the upload from my client's system. A newer DLink I bought a couple of years ago as a replacement didn't cut it when it came to those long uploads...so I gave the router away and kept the DI-614+. Now I've got another new router, a NetGear N600 Dual Band hummer...and it drops the connection, too. Anybody experience anything like this? Is there anything I can do about it? Regards, Steve Erbach Neenah, WI