Connection Issues Caused By Transmission?

[Michael Shelby]

Wondering if anyone else has this issue? I have searched the threads and seem to either not wording my search right or just not finding it. I have the Asus AC3200 running Merlin 378.55. I have been running into an odd issue where occasionally, with no definitive pattern (or so I thought) where it would lose WAN connection, and I would have to reboot my router for everything to work again. However I think I have narrowed it down to when my Transmission Daemon is running on my Linux box. It doesn't happen right away, or even all the time, but its pretty much a bet that if I am downloading/uploading anything at some point my WAN will drop. Which is a minor annoyance to me when I am remoting into my home network.

So onto my question.... is this being cause by too many connections to the router? Is the router or the firmware somehow getting overloaded when numerous connections hit it? I never had this problem with any other router and would be severely disappointing if this was an Asus thing as in every other way this router exceeds anything I have had previously. However, connection stability is crucial to me.

Any thoughts or direction?

 

[Zirescu]

I haven't seen this issue with my AC87U with Transmission running on my N66U. I have had issues at a clients work place where the DSL modem would go on the fritz and would require the modem to be reset. When the modem went on the fritz connection to the router from the WAN side was no longer possible. When you lose your WAN connection have you tried just reseting the modem instead of the router?

 

[Michael Shelby]

Hey thanks for the reply. Yeah I have Comca$t and have reset the modem several times in the past thinking maybe that is where the problem was but it actually is not. Rebooting the router does fix the issue though. Like I said prior router(s) I have run in the past that were not Asus had never had this issue before, so really the only thing I can tie it to is something in the Asus router or firmware.

 

[Zirescu]

Don't suppose there were anything in the log files that hinted at possible cause? I know quite a number of people on the forums have had issues with Comcast and Asus routers.

 

[Michael Shelby]

Unfortunately I have not yet successfully set up my logs to save to my Linux box separately so router reboots, logs go away. I need to work on that.

 

[sfx2000]

Maybe lowering the number of peer connections - both Global and new transfers - each connection takes up memory for that peer.

I have seen this with other vendor modems and routers if the peer connection values are too high... they just basically run out of memory.