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On Tuesday, May 28, 2013 07:29:11 PM Greg Freemyer wrote:
All,
At my parents house they have a old wireless router (maybe 7 or 8 years old). It normally works fine, but this weekend we had an extra 10 adults at their house and the wireless kept dropping from all the connected devices every minute or two.
Then, this morning after everyone left, the wireless was stable again.
The only thing I can think of is that there may be some kind of device limit on the router and when we exceeded the limit, it would kick off one connection in order to grant the next one and we ended up with a big game of king of the hill.
It is reasonable. The DHCP server inside the router usually drops those IP beyond the IP range assigned by DHCP server. if DHCP Sever on the Router only assigns 5 IPs addresses other machines connected will fight to keep the IP address. It is so specially when one of the machines is not actively connected (e.g. browsing) and other trying to connect to the IP pool already assigned.
Does that sound reasonable?
To keep this on topic, one of the devices going on and off line was my opensuse 12.3 laptop.
Greg
If you access to the router settings could check how many IP Addresses is capable to assign and handle simultaneously. If it is not possible, another approach is knowing the Default Gateway and Subnet Mask. It could give you a not so accurate idea- by proxy- how many IP the DHCP server is able to assign. Anyway, assuming you can modify the IP range to assign on DHCP server you could make wider by incresing this range to 20 IP addresses. This will make easier to drop and renew the IP addresses assigned from the DHCP server. Regards, Ricardo Chung | Panama Member openSUSE Projects -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org