MVP lan port dead

[simic]

I'm using wired MVP with a Linksys WAP54G loaded with DDWRT.

The streaming works fine, but it will always dies about 5 min into streaming any video.

I notice that the LAN port would be dead (no light) and soft on/off will not clear it. I will have to hard reset and reload the dongle to get the LAN port working again.

It used to work fine with the original linksys firmware, but I changed to DDwrt to get access to channel 13/14. (Airwaves are getting crowded in my neighbourhood).

[mvallevand]

I was going to suggest sending your GBPVR logs, but I think you need to eliminate some networking problems first. I'd check to make sure that I didn't have any IP DHCP lease conflicts first and then if that is ok I'd load the mvpmc dongle, telnet to the mvp and then just ping the router until it dies.

Martin

[simic]

I was going to suggest sending your GBPVR logs, but I think you need to eliminate some networking problems first. I'd check to make sure that I didn't have any IP DHCP lease conflicts first and then if that is ok I'd load the mvpmc dongle, telnet to the mvp and then just ping the router until it dies.

Martin

Dont think there is lease conflict...

PC -- Netgear WG614 -- Linksys WAP54G -- MVP. Its a dedicated wifi link with nothing else on it.

How will the mvpmc dongle help? I'm using the standard dongle that came with GBPVR.

The old dongle used to work... but it was stuttering badly becoz my neighbours are using the same channels. I flashed WAP54G to DDWRT and started using channel 13. The video is wonderful now, but MVP dies after 5 mins of video traffic. LAN port will not show link led anymore until i hard reset it.

[mvallevand]

How will the mvpmc dongle help? I'm using the standard dongle that came with GBPVR.

It would allow you to do the ping from mvmpc to your router. Since you say the lights are going off it doesn't look like a gbpvr problem.

Martin

[simic]

It would allow you to do the ping from mvmpc to your router. Since you say the lights are going off it doesn't look like a gbpvr problem.

Martin

yes, its some kind of hardware firmware problem when the default dongle is used together with ddwrt.

it didnt happen on the old linksys fw.

I just tried the mvmpc. it does not die, but the video playback is very jittery.

on standard dongle, playback is smooth, but i loose the link light abt 5 min into playback.

i record my shows in high quality.

[mvallevand]

I just tried the mvmpc. it does not die, but the video playback is very jittery.

I didn't expect you to try mvpmc but based on your results it sounds like you need to revert your firmware. You might be able to reduce the jittering a bit in mvpmc by changing the rt-windows setting. The default is 8192 (I'm assuming you didn't use 0.3.3) The mvpmc command line setting for this is --em-rtwin and you can try 0 and 4096 among others. You can also telnet to the mvp and issue the command ipconfig, I'm expecting you will see lots of network errors.

Martin

[simic]

I didn't expect you to try mvpmc but based on your results it sounds like you need to revert your firmware. You might be able to reduce the jittering a bit in mvpmc by changing the rt-windows setting. The default is 8192 (I'm assuming you didn't use 0.3.3) The mvpmc command line setting for this is --em-rtwin and you can try 0 and 4096 among others. You can also telnet to the mvp and issue the command ipconfig, I'm expecting you will see lots of network errors.

Martin

Yup, i reverted back to the original linksys and all is well again.

Really strange.