Network went slow overnight

AyashiKaibutsu

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I just bought an asus wl-500w and set it up yesterday. After forwarding some ports, setting it to prioritize gaming (was getting bad lag before setting this) and disabling the firewall (prefer to just have firewalls up on my computers) everything was working fine. Went to bed, when I woke up my compter had lost connection to the network. Repairing got it's connection back no big deal, but since then it's been running really slow. Websites take minutes to load or not at all. I didn't have a lot of time to mess with it before I had to leave it for work, but I'm wondering if anyone has an idea of what went wrong? Only thing I really tried to fix it was to restart the router, but it didn't seem to help.
 

Lemon law

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Ok, basically, you bought a wireless router, set it up, it worked fine after initial set up, and next boot up its slower than molasses in January. And now you expect some guru here to consult a magical crystal ball, at a huge distance, and tell you exactly what is wrong.

Sadly, troubleshooting does not work that way. And you have a troubleshooting problem.

But it strikes me off the bat, you should be isolating the problem. So step one is to bridge around the wireless router and see what your internet connection will do when its directly connected to just one computer. That gives you a base line, maybe your connection coming in is really terrible, and no router on the planet can cure that. And if that is the case, you have to find the cause of the slow connection. If you do have a good connection coming in, then you can blame something in the router set up.

But I hope that gives you an idea of how trouble shooting works, you make a hypothesis and then test reality, and in that way, you narrow down where to look.

But on to step troubleshooting step two, and here I am assuming you tested your internet connection and found it good, its time to quit getting fancy with any special game port settings, just set up a default set up. And see what you get at various times of the day. Try different router channels. But there is a good chance there may be other wireless networks in range of your network, and your computers may be confused
on what network to join. So setting up some static IP's on your computer or wireless security could help if that is the case. Or other computers in the building could be joining your network with the same results.
And again, its a testable hypothesis that moves you forward in helping to tell what trees to or not bark up.

But what I have suggested is just a start in a long process. It would help if you described what you have in far more detail. And others more expert than I am may have a pile of other ideas.
 

JackMDS

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As said above.

When come to Networking One of the Big mistake that End-User are doing is Not setting the system step at the time insuring that it is working OK at evrey step.

There is so many settings involved that one small mistake somewhere creates a problem, and then it is very hard to find where the problem is.

Right now may be this would help.

http://www.ezlan.net/debug.html

My Wireless does not work - http://www.ezlan.net/wireless.html

Wireless Basic Configuration - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Config.html

Wireless Security - http://www.ezlan.net/Wireless_Security.html
 

AyashiKaibutsu

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Originally posted by: Lemon law
Ok, basically, you bought a wireless router, set it up, it worked fine after initial set up, and next boot up its slower than molasses in January. And now you expect some guru here to consult a magical crystal ball, at a huge distance, and tell you exactly what is wrong.

I asked for some idea what might have gone wrong; maybe somebody had a similar experience and could mention something to give me a little clue beyond what I could figure out in 5 minutes. I never asked for step by step troubleshooting instructions on the problem. Get a grip on yourself.
 

yoda291

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Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
Originally posted by: Lemon law
Ok, basically, you bought a wireless router, set it up, it worked fine after initial set up, and next boot up its slower than molasses in January. And now you expect some guru here to consult a magical crystal ball, at a huge distance, and tell you exactly what is wrong.

I asked for some idea what might have gone wrong; maybe somebody had a similar experience and could mention something to give me a little clue beyond what I could figure out in 5 minutes. I never asked for step by step troubleshooting instructions on the problem. Get a grip on yourself.

I think his point is that most of the folk you find with lots of networking experience have seen those exact symptoms caused by like 50 or 60 different causes.

Kinda like going to a world-class MD and saying "My neck hurts, what do you think is wrong with me?".

My crystal ball tells me the ports you opened were picked up by bots on the internet and you've been getting hammered with connection requests on those ports trying to punch through a vulnerability.

I have about a thousand other crystal balls and they never repeat after each other so...
 
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