[dba-Tech] Router connectivity robustness

Good answer - good info - thanks, John
T

Tina Norris Fields
tinanfields at torchlake.com
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On 4/2/2012 11:52 PM, John Bartow wrote:
> 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
> -----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 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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