TomatoUSB

Hi ive been tomato user (TomatoMLPPP) with my wrt54 for 6 years but it recently passed away. I picked up the Asus N66U router but since day 1 i've been having frequent connection drops on toastman std, shibby aio and shibby aio 64K.

I'll do my best to describe the situation but afaik its not the modem as the connection uptime remains ongoing (doesnt revert back to 0). It started when I played gw2 and/or sc2 after installing shibby aio, my connection would drop/choke for ~15seconds to a minute then would resume. Now this would happen 4 to 6 times in a span of 10min, making it unbearable to play. During this downtime, there are no internet access networkwide and I am unable to login to webgui.

I initially thought it was the BW Limiter in Shibby, so I turned it off but the issue still persists. Same thing happens when I did a Restore to default+30/30/30, changed to Toastman STD firmware and Shibby AIO 64K (current firmware).

I couldn’t find any solution online and I’m not sure if I just had a bad router from the start. Tonight I'll restore the router back to asus firmware and test it from there.

Any input would help!

Have you tried testing gw2 sc2 from a pc plugged direct into the asus, no other items connected?
The outage could be any lan device failing and taking down the ethernet.
Also it could be a virus or other large packet storm, like iTunes dropbox or other all consuming outbound packet stream, vpn, remote desktop, ssh tunnel, using all the upload bandwidth. Your connection would appear to remain up when this was happening. Since games require communication both ways it's just a possibility that might not have been considered.
Since you did the full reset and 3 different firmwares it seems obvious it is either a bad router for the get go, or one of the above problems.

did u restore ur old config, or reconfigure by hand…

never had any connection drop here.

One thing with this 1000Mb router is you MUST have a Cat5 or Cat6 cable from router to modem/fiber/lan connection.
Otherwise they tendens to drop connection. Wort to try.

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