Accessing RT31P2

[engineercarl]

Patoka:

I intended to put this device ahead of my router, so I needed to enable DMZ on it and load my Dynamic DNS information into it.

At first blush, if you have a simple (as in his n hers computers, that's all) network, you could easily replace your router with the unit.

[Russell]

Patoka:

I intended to put this device ahead of my router, so I needed to enable DMZ on it and load my Dynamic DNS information into it.

At first blush, if you have a simple (as in his n hers computers, that's all) network, you could easily replace your router with the unit.

I don't know if mine is an exception or not, but mine appears to reboot on a regular basis. For a small window of time you don't have Internet or phone service. Not sure if it's triggered off from activity from the computer or not. I know this because the RT31P2 is next to my monitor - I go to a web-page to browse and all of a sudden things grind to a halt. Look over to the RT31P2 and it's rebooting - with the phone lines dark. Some seconds later all is well and I can resume web-browsing. Has happened to me multiple times. Once even happened with I tried to access the RT31P2 - which makes me wonder if it's the traffic that causes it to reboot.

[patoka]

godaddy.com would cause my router (Mikrotik) to lock up intermittently, never figured out what it was but it would happen if I was doing multiple name changes, seemed to be related to their javascript and the time delays in refreshing a page after submitting data. One other site with lots of active server pages would do the same thing. I did a firmware upgrade and that cured the problem.

Back when I used Linksys products I noticed that they did not like to upload data at a steady rate, mine would lock up every time I tried streaming video from a surveillance camera, ended up limiting the camera to 64k even though my ISP let me have 128-256.

I've had voipo about 8 months now and have had to reset my RT 2 or 3 times.

[Russell]

The problems I describe with my RT31P2 would not be obvious unless you were on the look out of them. The router reboots and so after a few seconds all is well.