Comments on: bringing down the network

By: zephoria

zephoria — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 22:47:53 +0000

Thanks everyone! I’m going to try some of these out during my next break.

Doc – i don’t have a printer, but i do have an Airport Express that i use to play music…

By: marble

marble — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 11:51:12 +0000

meow. you’re banned.

By: Doc Searls

Doc Searls — Sun, 05 Dec 2004 10:28:09 +0000

Are you also using AppleTalk at the same time, say to talk to an AppleTalk printer? Sometimes disabling other protocols and traffic that might overload the Netgear can help.

Of all the access points I have (two pples, a Netgear, two Linksys and a no-name), the Netger has always been the simplest and most reliable, as well as the one with the best signal, by far. But I’ve never done what you’re describing here.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 22:40:37 +0000

certain it’s not your Mac. Had a similar problem setting up a wireless classroom of 30 Tablet PC’s and one wifi router. Tried several before settling on a lynksis. It’s was just able to handle all 35 clients better than the others.

By: joe

joe — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 14:04:06 +0000

also make sure that the netgear’s firmware is as current as possible… hopefully that won’t break any toys that your cs roomies have cooked up… -Joe

By: damion

damion — Sat, 04 Dec 2004 13:41:54 +0000

The first link describes how to change the MTU settings on a Netgear (with a description of what MTU is) and the second is people talking about similiar problems.

http://kbserver.netgear.com/kb_web_files/n100603.asp

http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,9003438~mode=flat~start=40

At least in the case of the Pine C&P it sounds like the Mac is sending the largest allowed packet but the Netgear for some reason is not breaking it up correctly, so it crashes. If you lower the MTU setting on the Netgear it should handle it better, but some network apps MIGHT run into some performance hits.