Youve given a textbook description of the major symptoms of a well-known design flaw in modems/routers/gateways/APs, known as bufferbloat. It's very common, especially on DSL. The obsolete scheduling strategies your D-Link supports won't help. Prioritizing your gaming traffic over other traffic just shovels the problem into someone else's lap, and even that might not be enough to make your gaming lag go away.
The true solution to bufferbloat is modern "Smart Queue Managment" (SQM) using algorithms like "Cake" or "FQ-CoDel". Most routers' factory firmware is way behind the times on this, so you have to load your own open source Linux firmware on the router (such as OpenWrt or DD-WRT or Tomato, etc. etc.) to get Cake or FQ-CoDel support.
I found a way to boot into CFE recovery mode without opening the box.
Turn off, push and hold the reset button, turn on, keep holding the reset button until the power LED become red.
go to and upload the new firmware.
Hi All,
I have the same router as D-Link 2750u. After fighting for last 3 days, I found that Chaos Calmer release for profile A4001N will work fine for this router. Of course the router name will come as A4001N but I don't mind that :)
As you might already know OpenWRT does not support ADSL. I am using the modem as a wireless extender. I am using this router(client) to connect to my main router (AP to which ADSL connection terminates) wirelessly and connect my desktop to the Client router through LAN. This was not working with the stock firmware.Thanks OpenWRT, you saved me some bucks, without this I would have to buy WiFi PCI card.
Just to summarize the steps,
- Assigning static ip to your machine which is connected to router using a LAN cable
- power off the router, press the reset, power on the router *keeping* the reset pressed, release after few seconds when the light goes red
- Point your browser to 192.168.1.1 (remember to clear caches of browser if you have problems in accessing the page)
- upload the firmware through the web interface, it will take few minutes and restart
- Remove the static ip for your machine and configure to do DHCP and Enjoy
EDIT: it dosent save any settings like wi-fi or even the admin password
I updated to the latest firmware from dlink " -
link.co.za" - the source code for the firmware is there too but me "noob"
I have hardware revision T1
and the latest firmware is seems prity good
but im gona mess around and see if i can get the open wrt to save settings
So yousuf dident suply his hardware revision and there are - C1 - T1 and T3
there is a major difference in the flash layout of the stock firmware and the suggested A4001N
but it dose boot into failsafe mode
i have gone as far as compiling the openwrt from the source and have made FW that boots into failsafe as well - based on the platfrom and device mentioned by yousuf
but i dont understand enough to change the flash layout
if anyone can help ill be glad to post any info i have
Built the latest openwrt Designated Driver Bleeding Edge from source with A400 1N spec and it saves settings.
issues after installing Luci
Wi-Fi - WPA and WPA2 not working - wpad-mini package installed
in luci it wont scan for available networks - can setup basic network AP open authentication
so i am gona try make an extRoot or extOverlay again - last time it worked(saves setings,extra storage) but wolden't always boot up.the usb i used was bit faulty i realize and i have serial console access now
pin layout J 6 = pin1.VVC pin 2.GND pin3.TX pin4. RX - using raspberry pi - 3.3v yay
if you use a jffs2 64k image and not a squashfs image there is no jffs2 errors.
they dont have that image on the download section. so you have to build it and i coulden't get the chaos-calmmer15.1-imagebuilder to make a jffs2 image, so i used trunk source.
so i saw a "newwer" D-link firmware and was worried about usb not working so i loaded it.
and usb works in stock firmware
but when i try to re flash any (96328avng) - jffs2 or squashfs -8M.bin i get
BUT then... i tryed to flash a 4M jffs2 image and it failed to flash constant red light.
after that go back into CFE and flash jffs2 trunk and it saves setting again-EDIT: then it did the not allways booting up so i flashed a trunk image for 96328avng with only b42 and wpad-mini (no ext-root or usb drivers) squashfs.bin and its stable again...-
I recently acquired my brother's older ADSL router (the D-Link 2750U), since my previous one (a D-Link DSL-2640U) was starting to exhibit strange behaviour (dropped connections, slow upload speed, etc.). Apparently, so I've been told, these routers have a certain lifespan and then they start to slowly stop functioning.
Everything seems to work fine with the DSL-2750U, except that as soon as I re-connect any LAN connection to the router, the Wi-Fi stop responding, necessitating me to restart the router.
To elaborate:
My main PC and my printer is connected via a LAN cable to the router.
I have a couple of wireless devices (mostly two cell phones, my printer as well as a Wi-Fi range extender) connected via Wi-Fi to the router.
Everything connects fine and is working without problems, but as soon as I power down my main PC (that is connected via a LAN cable) and power it up again, my Wi-Fi connection "freezes" up.
If I disconnect any of my wireless devices and try to reconnect, then I just get an error message of either "Cannot obtain IP address" or "Wireless connection to XXX did not respond".
I've been in contact with the support desk of D-Link.
They have suggested changing the channel, which had no impact.
I've tried to set up "reserved" IP addresses for all my main devices - also no change.
I've also disabled Wi-Fi Multimedia power saving mode and I've also updated the firmware to the latest version.
I haven't tried connecting such devices via a LAN cable.
However, if I unplug my printer's LAN cable and plug it in again, the same problem occurs.
It's almost like the DHCP server is getting confused and then "cuts off" the wireless, refusing to assign any IP addresses to wireless devices.
Sounds like you've tried just about everything I could think of to suggest. The firmware update was my ace in the hole. Have you tried a factory reset on the router? Print off or note down all your settings, hold the reset button in for 30 seconds, then reprogram it for your home network. Maybe try a barebones setup to start with, using default IP range, minimal wifi setup, etc. If it still occurs, maybe it's going bad. You could also try flashing it back to older firmware revs to see if the problem goes away.
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Yes, tried factory reset as well. The reason why I updated to the latest firmware is because my brother experienced the same problem and I thought that a firmware upgrade would fix it. Unfortunately, it didn't.
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