Router – Very slow network connection

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At work, we are currently using a Linksys WRT54GL (yeah, i know), running DDWRT v.23. There is about 50 computers plugged into our network, all routed through a Linksys SRW2048 switch.

The problem is that all connections are very slow, even the routers GUI is very slow.

I've checked the load values and they seem to be fine. Although the memory free is only about .6 MB.

Is there any settings I should do or something other I need to think of?

EDIT:

Sorry, the memory usage is very high. It's only about 0.6 MB left. What can I do to free some memory? Things like wireless networking is disabled.

Thanks!

Best Answer

I have quite a similar setup WRT54GS with 60/70 computers and DDWRT 0.24SP1.

Try looking for connection timeout, if set to 3600 set it down to 300, look for max active connections as well and set it to a reasonable value like 1024/2048 for your network size. I'm rarely having more than 1000 active connections at a time with timeout set to 300.

[EDIT] For the memory issue it might be related to the maximum active connection setting. Do not set it to 4096 as it consumes quite a bit of memory. Set it to 1024.

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