prof: Are you telling me your house is a junkyard because I believe somewhere in my apartment are some old ISA cards you sent me.;)
Ahem. The cards are in your apartment now, right?
To be honest, when it comes to computer parts I am the worst packrat in the world. It took a 450-mile move to get things cleaned out even a little bit.
If you are going to start buying cards and the likes why not just buy a new router, one that can handle the load. How much load are you putting on that 604.
Well, it seems there's no set pattern to what routers can handle the load. On the Overnet forums, it almost seems like a hit or miss. All I know is that if it makes more than 18 connections with that program, it craps out. EMT - thanks for the info. Only this is that I'm not sure if it will still crash, so either Smoothwall + buying a new switch or just a new router would be the smartest idea. I just don't know lol
well with buying a router you get what you pay for. If you are putting a heavy load on your home router you can bet that any cheap router will also have the same issues. If you really need that much extra then maybe go for a higher end router..
what exactly are you doing that is causing the overload on your router?
Mostly it's when I run Overnet and it makes around 21 connections. Honestly I didn't think 21 connections would crap it out....But yeah, this was a refurbed 604 (I didn't know that at the time). TheBaron - couldn't you just plug in a printer to one computer and share it over the network?
oh its a refurb.... id go buy a new one.... one that is not a refurb... I run 3 machines, 2 of them doing p2p downloads, 1 doing irc, xfire, and playing et. the other 2 downloading and running aim on 1 irc on the other and browsing... ive never exceed my 614+'s capabilities. You should not be either. I think you router is hosed. just get another. They are designed to handle 254 connections...
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To be honest, when it comes to computer parts I am the worst packrat in the world. It took a 450-mile move to get things cleaned out even a little bit.
Gobbles
what exactly are you doing that is causing the overload on your router?
Gobbles
that would require using File/Printer sharing, which as far as I'm concerned is one gigantic security hole
also, about # of connections: overnet / bittorrent destroyed DHCP on my router, but other than that it still seems to work just fine
Gobbles