Rampidbyter Rampid byter: A byte of my .Net developing life.

Frustrating! That is the one word I'd use to describe the problem i’ve been having lately. First the wireless router is connected to a wired only Linksys business class router, and the wireless router is merely to provide connectivity throughout the house. There is typically at most two computers connecting to the wireless router. This is a new addition to the network, and was a replacement for my Linksys access point that i had blamed for the initial problem.

I have a folder shared on my desktop upstairs that is connected to the wired business class Linksys network router. The Linksys wireless router is set as a router and is on the same IP schema that shares the local network. I can connect just fine to the shared folder, run music, and play movies from the PC without any problems from the desktop from the wireless share. I can do all this while others are playing a LAN game of Star Craft, and all the while I'm listening to Pandora. So the connection is fine, no real latency, and everything seems fine.

The problem is when i start transferring large files (3-300 MB) to and from the shared folder, or even from within a remote desktop connection. The connection to the network then slows shortly after starting the transfer, becomes unresponsive, and eventually I'm disconnected from the wireless network. I’ve checked every router setting, I've upgraded firmware, and even went ahead and updated the intrusion protection files. I had the initial problem with my access point, and even after purchasing an actual wireless router still am experiencing connection loss on trying to transfer large files.

I’ve done some research to see if anyone else has experienced similar problems, and found one to many similar experiences. From what I've found it seems that when starting to transfer a large data file the router/access point is overheating because of poor air circulation and overhead imposed on the processing capacity to move large files. I even found one guy who cut the bottom out from the router, installed an 90mm fan, and a thermal heat sink unit to the router to keep from experiencing data loss. I may consider doing this in the future, and I'm really surprised that this would be the cause since I'd think a lot of people use the wireless router to move files back and forth from once pc to another over a wireless connection. It only comes from transferring one pc to another, and not from actually downloading large files from the internet. I downloaded SDKs, DDKs, IDE’s, and had absolutely no problems downloading files 500mb-1gig.