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[FurryNutz]

Usually they are, I think the router does fill them in, however it just depends on what it detects from the ISP modem. Some do, some don't. Why I ask and mention that here in the forums.

I would turn off Advanced DNS Services and Turn on DNS relay.

[joeywan2002]

Hello, all. I'd like to join in on this thread. I've been a dir-655 owner for about 6 weeks now. The first 4 went by with only a reset here and there. Then, I started having the same issues described on this thread (can't connect to web pages, yet torrents and remote desktop sessions will be chugging along) I just made the changes recommended here last night (turn off Advanced DNS, turn on DNS relay) and time will tell if that solves it.

The reason why I found it necessary to join in is to ask this question: Could the problem be with those DNS servers recommended by d-link? Are they just under load and certain users feel the brunt of it more than other users? Or is there something potentially critically buggy about them?

I'm a wifi novice, so feel free to correct me if my knowledge of what I think a DNS to be is wrong. Curious to hear thoughts as well.

[FurryNutz]

It's been reported that in some cases that the DNS that DLink recommends has had some issues. It's possible that under certain load times that DLink DNS can get bogged down. Its' preferred to use your ISPs DNS addresses as a priority, then maybe 3rd party DNS like DLink or OpenDNS or DynDNS for those who want to tweek or tinker with that.

Link>Finding Faster DNS Addresses using Name Bench

[joeywan2002]

So, I had a few more drops since my last post, but now I'm on my second day of testing a new solution. I started shopping for a new router, and was highly interested in the 1 star reviews of all the models I was interested in. Every model suffers from drops and hangs. However, I did see a common thread. A lot of people were using bit torrents. A few google searches later, and I discovered that routers have something called a NAT (Network Address Translation) table. Basically each time you connect with a peer, it eats up a slot in the NAT table. The NAT table is finite, so when it fills up, that's when we start to see hangs.

A lot of routers out there have support for dd-wrt (custom firmware) that allows you to adjust the size of the NAT table to 4000 connections or so. Unfortunately, the dir-655 doesn't support dd-wrt.

My solution was just to open up by bit torrent client (utorrent) and limit the amount of connections to 50. The results have been "so far so good"!

Unfortunately, I couldn't find any way to adjust the NAT table size in the router. Does anyone know how to do that? What about further optimizations to limit the load on the router for users running bit torrent? Any ideas?

[FurryNutz]

How about adjusting the size of peers and connections in BT? I think they are opened up to alot. How about adjusting BR for just a few ups and downs? When I was doing that I only let 1 up and 1 down at a time.