TomatoUSB

Hi Tomato community,

First, thanks so much for developing this firmware and supporting it. So far I've really enjoyed the freedom of using third party firmware vs. what the companies churn out. I installed TomatoUSB in late August for my RT-N16 and I'm having two issues:

1. The connection for my work computer (using VPN or not) isn't great. It's quite extremely slow compared to the previous router (wireless G/ D/L speed is 2Mb/s, but before, could get 5-7Mb/s speeds.
2. Sometimes for the other personal computers (Wireless N), the connection drops for 5 minutes completely (internet doesn't work at all; no one can connect) or is deathly slow. When this happens, sometimes I unplug the router and modem and then it's back up to normal.

How can I troubleshoot this? Sorry I'm a noob and am trying to figure this out!

Thanks.

Also, sometimes the router goes into "local only" mode for a few minutes and then connects back up to the internet. I have no clue why it does this!
Thanks

Hello,

Try first to scan wifi networks around you and make sure that there is no interefence with another routers, and adjust channel accordingly. You can scan in http://192.168.1.1/basic-network.asp - you have a button Scan there.

Also, when you have dropouts can you run dmesg and provide the output here?

Thanks for the note. It's currently on Auto, and the channels that are available are: 2-5 + 7.

Can you tell me how to run dmesg on Windows?

Thanks!

Bunz: Can you tell me how to run dmesg on Windows?

In the router GUI, go to Tools>System and in the Command box type dmesg. Then click Execute.

Then you can copy and paste the output here.

Thanks! Actually, the router went completely dead for the last 5 minutes (would allow internet run wired, but not wifi…couldn't event connect to the router) Here what it looks like when I run dmesg (when it's working). Any idea?

Linux version 2.6.22.19 (root@tomato) (gcc version 4.2.4) #1 Sun Jul 25 09:46:03 EDT 2010
CPU revision is: 00019740
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 07fff000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 32767
Normal zone: 255 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Normal zone: 32512 pages, LIFO batch:7
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 32512
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
CPU: BCM4716 rev 1 pkg 10 at 480 MHz
Using 240.000 MHz high precision timer.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 127032k/131068k available (2060k kernel code, 3900k reserved, 437k data, 108k init, 0k highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=6, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay loop… 238.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=119296)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using membase 8000000
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.1 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
io scheduler noop registered (default)
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 4.8 $, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: Registered protocol family 24
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.17
PPTP driver version 0.8.4
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x2000000 at 0x1c000000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x01fe0000 : "linux"
0x00118400-0x00760000 : "rootfs"
0x00760000-0x01fe0000 : "jffs2"
0x01fe0000-0x02000000 : "nvram"
Found a 0MB serial flash
sflash: found no supported devices
u32 classifier
OLD policer on
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 8192 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <moc.hcetalednac|braeerg#moc.hcetalednac|braeerg>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <moc.tahder|mevad#moc.tahder|mevad>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
et: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.10.56.46
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
eth1: Broadcom BCM4329 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.10.56.46
net/ipv4/netfilter/tomato_ct.c [Jul 25 2010 09:51:01]
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.1 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: irq 5, io mem 0x18004000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: USB 0.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
usblp: USB Printer Device Class driver
vlan1: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
vlan1: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device vlan1 entered promiscuous mode
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x26A3
usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 2 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x26A3
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 1(vlan1) entering learning state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(vlan1) entering forwarding state
vlan2: Setting MAC address to 48 5b 39 e7 9c fb.
vlan2: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface

Actually, perfect timing. Wireless is running at .13Mbps! :(
Here's the dmesg:

Linux version 2.6.22.19 (root@tomato) (gcc version 4.2.4) #1 Sun Jul 25 09:46:03 EDT 2010
CPU revision is: 00019740
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 07fff000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 32767
Normal zone: 255 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 0 pages reserved
Normal zone: 32512 pages, LIFO batch:7
Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 32512
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
Primary instruction cache 32kB, physically tagged, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kB, 4-way, linesize 32 bytes.
Synthesized TLB refill handler (20 instructions).
Synthesized TLB load handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB store handler fastpath (32 instructions).
Synthesized TLB modify handler fastpath (31 instructions).
PID hash table entries: 512 (order: 9, 2048 bytes)
CPU: BCM4716 rev 1 pkg 10 at 480 MHz
Using 240.000 MHz high precision timer.
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Memory: 127032k/131068k available (2060k kernel code, 3900k reserved, 437k data, 108k init, 0k highmem)
SLUB: Genslabs=6, HWalign=32, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay loop… 238.59 BogoMIPS (lpj=119296)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
NET: Registered protocol family 16
PCI: Using membase 8000000
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Reset RC
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.0 to 64
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:00.1 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 0000:01:00.1 (0004 -> 0006)
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Time: MIPS clocksource has been installed.
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
TCP reno registered
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
io scheduler noop registered (default)
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 4.8 $, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing disabled
serial8250: ttyS0 at MMIO 0x0 (irq = 8) is a 16550A
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
NET: Registered protocol family 24
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.17
PPTP driver version 0.8.4
Physically mapped flash: Found 1 x16 devices at 0x0 in 8-bit bank
Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table at 0x0040
Physically mapped flash: CFI does not contain boot bank location. Assuming top.
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling erase-suspend-program due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x2000000 at 0x1c000000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x01fe0000 : "linux"
0x00118400-0x00760000 : "rootfs"
0x00760000-0x01fe0000 : "jffs2"
0x01fe0000-0x02000000 : "nvram"
Found a 0MB serial flash
sflash: found no supported devices
u32 classifier
OLD policer on
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (1024 buckets, 8192 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <moc.hcetalednac|braeerg#moc.hcetalednac|braeerg>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <moc.tahder|mevad#moc.tahder|mevad>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 108k freed
Warning: unable to open an initial console.
et: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:02.0 to 64
eth0: Broadcom BCM47XX 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Controller 5.10.56.46
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:01.0 to 64
eth1: Broadcom BCM4329 802.11 Wireless Controller 5.10.56.46
net/ipv4/netfilter/tomato_ct.c [Jul 25 2010 09:51:01]
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
ehci_hcd: USB 2.0 'Enhanced' Host Controller (EHCI) Driver
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.1 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: irq 5, io mem 0x18004000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:04.1: USB 0.0 started, EHCI 1.00
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
usbcore: registered new interface driver usblp
usblp: USB Printer Device Class driver
vlan1: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
usb 1-2: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
vlan1: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device vlan1 entered promiscuous mode
usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 1 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x26A3
usblp1: USB Bidirectional printer dev 2 if 2 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x04A9 pid 0x26A3
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 1(vlan1) entering learning state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(vlan1) entering forwarding state
vlan2: Setting MAC address to 48 5b 39 e7 9c fb.
vlan2: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
usblp0: nonzero read bulk status received: -71
usblp0: error -71 reading from printer
usblp0: nonzero read bulk status received: -71

What build are you using?

Check the parameters under "Advance —> Wireless":
Afterburner —> disable
Overlapping BSS Coexistence —> off

this worked for me (wireless-N )

Good luck

I tried everything mentioned above but still have slow connection. I open the firewall NAT to ALL and this helped a bit on skype, but video conversations are still slow. I'm on a 10/10Mbits dsl line. Noticed allot is slow lately and have not downloaded faster than 200kb/s when usually download around 600-900kb/s

Here is my dmesg

CPU revision is: 00029006
Primary instruction cache 16kB, physically tagged, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Primary data cache 16kB, 2-way, linesize 16 bytes.
Linux version 2.4.37.9 (root@tomato) (gcc version 3.4.6) #7 2010-09-04 00:40:17 EDT
Setting the PFC to its default value
Determined physical RAM map:
 memory: 02000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 8192
zone(0): 8192 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/mtdblock2 noinitrd console=ttyS0,115200
CPU: BCM4704 rev 9 pkg 0 at 264 MHz
Using 132.000 MHz high precision timer.
Calibrating delay loop... 263.78 BogoMIPS
Memory: 30528k/32768k available (1442k kernel code, 2240k reserved, 100k data, 84k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction...  unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Initializing host
PCI: Fixing up bus 0
PCI: Fixing up bridge
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:00.0 to 64
PCI: Fixing up bus 1
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
devfs: boot_options: 0x1
squashfs: version 3.0 (2006/03/15) Phillip Lougher
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI enabled
ttyS00 at 0xb8000300 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xb8000400 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
HDLC line discipline: version $Revision: 3.7 $, maxframe=4096
N_HDLC line discipline registered.
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPPoL2TP kernel driver, V0.15.1
PPTP driver version 0.8.5-rc1
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x800000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1000000 for the chip at 0x0
Physically mapped flash: Found an alias at 0x1800000 for the chip at 0x0
 Amd/Fujitsu Extended Query Table v1.3 at 0x0040
 Flash Id: Vendor: 0x0001 Device: 0x007e
number of CFI chips: 1
cfi_cmdset_0002: Disabling fast programming due to code brokenness.
Flash device: 0x800000 at 0x1c000000
Creating 5 MTD partitions on "Physically mapped flash":
0x00000000-0x00040000 : "pmon"
0x00040000-0x007f0000 : "linux"
0x000bd000-0x003e0000 : "rootfs"
0x003e0000-0x007f0000 : "jffs2"
0x007f0000-0x00800000 : "nvram"
sflash: found no supported devices
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 16384 buckets, 128Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
GRE over IPv4 demultiplexor driver
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (16384 buckets, 8192 max) - 324 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
tomato_ct.c [Sep  3 2010 23:32:29]
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Ethernet Bridge 008 for NET4.0
802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
All bugs added by David S. Miller <davem@redhat.com>
VFS: Mounted root (squashfs filesystem) readonly.
Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 84k freed
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:01.0 to 64
eth0: Broadcom BCM47xx 10/100 Mbps Ethernet Controller 4.150.10.29
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 00:02.0 to 64
unregister_netdevice: device eth1/8106fa00 never was registered
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 01:02.0 to 64
PCI: Enabling device 01:02.0 (0004 -> 0006)
eth1: Broadcom BCM4318 802.11 Wireless Controller 4.150.10.29
Algorithmics/MIPS FPU Emulator v1.5
ip_conntrack_rtsp v0.01 loading
ip_nat_rtsp v0.01 loading
ip_conntrack_pptp version 1.9 loaded
ip_nat_pptp version 1.5 loaded
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
PCI: Enabling device 01:03.2 (0000 -> 0002)
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: PCI device 1106:3104
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: irq 12, pci mem c0229000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
EHCI: Enabling VIA 6212 workarounds
ehci_hcd 01:03.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver usblp
printer.c: v0.13: USB Printer Device Class driver
vlan0: dev_set_promiscuity(master, 1)
device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
device vlan0 entered promiscuous mode
hub.c: new USB device 01:03.2-1, assigned address 2
device eth1 entered promiscuous mode
br0: port 2(eth1) entering learning state
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering learning state
br0: port 2(eth1) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
br0: port 1(vlan0) entering forwarding state
br0: topology change detected, propagating
vlan1: Setting MAC address to  00 17 31 e7 5f 04.
vlan1: add 01:00:5e:00:00:01 mcast address to master interface
scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
  Vendor: WD        Model: 2500JB External   Rev: 0107
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sda: Waiting for disc 0 to settle.
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
Partition check:
 /dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3
WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured, unmount it before unplugging
USB Mass Storage device found at 2. Host: 0
EXT3-fs: recovery starting.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 1 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
EXT3-fs: recovery starting.
kjournald starting.  Commit interval 1 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal
EXT3-fs: recovery complete.
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.