[dba-Tech] Router connectivity robustness

What do the speed tests like speakeasy show you? I'm on Time Warner
(roadrunner) - download ~13Mbps, upload ~1Mbps.  I haven't found too much
difference in routers - they crap out every 3-4 years.  Right now I've got a
Netgear WNR2000.  Just runs with no problems.  

Rocky
 

-----Original Message-----
From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 3:51 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: [dba-Tech] Router connectivity robustness

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
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