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[Lops]

Hi,
I have been reading in this forum for quite some time now. Great work, keep it up guys!!
Now i feel that i might need some help/advice from more experienced users:
Yesterday I saw that my favorite game CSGO is no more being identified as CSGO by the router, but is put into the "general traffic" category. It was recognized correctly some months ago though. Now I am wondering what to do about this, since i fear that the game traffic is scheduled just as low priority as regular surfing etc.
I am currently using FW 1.13 BUILD 03, which is working fine except for this SB problem.
I also tried going back to older FWs, but that did not fix the problem with the incorrect classification.

EDIT:
I found theese two lines in the router-log (after a restart):
info     User config file /var/run/appflow/streamboost.user.conf does not exist, exiting
info     [Initialized, firmware version: 1.13 ] 

is that normal behavior? There should be streamboost-configfile, right?

[FurryNutz]

Link>Welcome!

• What region are you located?
• Are you wired or wireless connected to the router?
• Has a Factory Reset been performed?
• Was a Factory Reset performed before and after any firmware updates then set up from scratch?

FW Update Process

• Was the router working before any firmware updates?

What build version of FW was the game being correctly recognized?

Internet Service Provider and Modem Configurations

• What ISP Service do you have? Cable or DSL?
• What ISP Modem Mfr. and model # do you have?

[Lops]

I am sitting here in Germany.
I use a wired connection not too much a fan of wireless and only use wireless if there is no other option.
Yes if followed the firmwareflashing-guide: hardreset -> flash FW -> hardreset -> setup from scratch without loading saved configs.

I had been using 1.11 B03 before, where SB was detecting CSGO just fine. But SB was stopping for no reason at random times. The "My Network"-page was not showing any active devices. This was the main reason, why I wanted to try the newer FWs. I already tried reverting to this older version without success. CSGO was still not identified. I will try reverting to this version and disable the automatic SB updates and see if this might work.

I am on a cable network connection.
Sadly my provider forces me to use their ****ty Modem and they won't give me the necessary userdata to replace it with a modem of my choice. It is a Hitron CVE-3060 (http://www.hitrontech.com/en/cable_detail.php?id=13)

Nearly forgot: ABE is not working but that doesn't really bother me.

Thank you for your reply FurryNutz

[FurryNutz]

Regarding your ISP modem:

• If the ISP modem has a built in router, it's best to bridge the modem. Having 2 routers on the same line can cause connection problems: Link>Double NAT and How NAT Works. To tell if the modem is bridged or not, look at the routers web page, Status/Device Info/Wan Section, if there is a 192.168.0.# address in the WAN IP address field, then the modem is not bridged. If the modem can't be bridged then see if the modem has a DMZ option and input the IP address the router gets from the modem and put that into the modems DMZ. Also check the routers DHCP IP address maybe conflicting with the ISP modems IP address of 192.168.0.1. Check to see if this is the same on the ISP modem, and if modem can't be bridged, change the DIR router to 192.168.1.1 or .0.254.
  Example of a D-Link router configured for PPPoE with ISP Modem bridged: PPPoE Configuration on Router

FYI:
http://forums.dlink.com/index.php?topic=55110.0

[Lops]

yes it is already in bridgemode. I am not sure if this particular setup would work at all if it was not.

Might be a bit OT, but i found smth interesting in the logfiles:
There is one type of message, which will be partially overwritten by another message. (at different offsets each time) I think that there is some race condition, which could be fixed there. Obviously this bug is not very criticall.

[FurryNutz]

Well not sure...unfortunately thats something that I don't if it can be addresses since you are out side of the NA region. Hard to tell if this is something having to do with FW or a possible incompatibility with your region. 

Have you gone back to the last working version of FW?

[Lops]

Yes this is exactly what i am trying to figure out atm. But it's somewhat strange that the traffic classification did work in the past and stopped working now... I am wondering if SB uses IPs to which data is sent in it's heuristics to determine the type of traffic. This would be pretty much the only way i can think of, that my location could influence the correctness of SB's classification.

[FurryNutz]

Possible..not sure...and that if you put newer FW on, maybe now even more restrictive for users outside of the NA region which this router isn't intended for. 

[Lops]

Indeed possible. Although it would be strange to "punish" users outside the US for purchasing a good product, which is just not sold outside the US... 
I will take a shot at flashing 1.11 B03 and disabling SB updates before connecting to the internet. I will update you on the status as soon, as i tried that one.
The other odd thing is that most other types of traffic are identified correctly e.g. League of Legends, Netflix, Twitch, YouTube...

[FurryNutz]

Well I wouldn't hold it against D-Link either for not supporting a product that was never intended to be sold out side of the NA region either. Why would users buy something thats not intended for there region and not be able to get good full official support for it? Phone or otherwise. Just saying.    Users need to be aware and research before buy products. Ya I understand that users want the cool stuff that maybe NA region only gets however users can suffer hassles trying to get support where there isn't.  Thats not money wisely spent IMO. Just trying to help users avoid the hassle. IMO, the 5500 has been a hassle since it came out. And D-Link is aware of it. They are trying to work it all out. 

To be honest, if you can live it it and accept it for what it does then you'll be ok I guess. If you don't think you can live with it, then I would get into something else. The DIR-868L is a solid router. There are others as well that work too. 

[Lops]

I didn't mean to say that in an offensive way  Sorry if I sounded like I was pissed or so. English is not my motherlanguage, so there may be some subtle tones mixed in, which I didn't intend to put in.  I just think that it would be odd, if it was the case, if D-Link/Qualcomm were intentionally tuning their products against usage outside of the intended region.
Maybe I will just have to build my own router with proper bandwidth management. Because this is the sole reason for me buying this router. It is always the same: Someone at my house starts the upload of his/her facebook photos or whatever and all interactive applications are literally unusable during this time. Do you have a recommendation of a router featuring a reasonable bandwidth-management system?

[FurryNutz]

I understand users frustrations as well with the router. Ya, we don't know what is going with Qualcom which all this is coming from. All I know is that D-Link is just trying to make it work. 

I'd take a look at the DIR-868L Rev A. Solid working router. I just gave mine away as a present for the holidays. Hope I can find another. The 880L isn't bad either. Has a new UI and engine which is more simplified. You can check out the review over on the 880L forum.

The 850L and 845L have similar WiFi speeds at the 5500.

I personally wished D-Link had used the 868L HW and WiFi for the 5500. Oh well. 

[Lops]

OK I tested with an older FW, but without success. Still no correct traffic identification. I will use the latest one then and hope for updates, which might fix the problem for me. Thx for your efforts FurryNutz

[FurryNutz]

Give the FW some time to identify the traffic. Like a day and see.