[dba-Tech] Router connectivity robustness

Hi Steve,
A bit late to the fire here but I've noticed a lot of stalled downloads
lately and in general poorer high speed performance in the area. AT&T is
installing their Uverse in the area and it is affecting DSL service. It's
essentially the same thing but different equipment but it seems to be beyond
coincidence of the two occurrences.
Charter and RR appear to be, as Jim stated, compressing their traffic to
increase bandwidth but I might add that there has been a lot of discussion
as to whether or not these companies are interrupting data flows in order to
discourage use of video services such as Netflix.
I have, on the other hand had continued success using good old ftp. Since
you have a domain and web site you might look into whether or not you have
an ftp service that accompanies it (all of my domains do). Set it up, use
Filezilla on both ends and Bob's your uncle!

Good luck,
John B
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Steve Erbach
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2012 5:51 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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