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C0RR0SIVE's avatar
C0RR0SIVE
Associate Professor
7 years ago

Soo.... WHAZ UP~?!?!

Hey, been a while since I was actively posting and such... Trying to get back into the game, at least on Monday Nights, and *potentially* Tuesday nights!  Work has been a drag for me lately, long hours, exhausting long drive, and daily life has pretty much killed what free time I have had.  Those that read my website could tell that I was being dragged along since I have only made like one post the last two months!

So what has everyone been upto?  Heard my ol' buddy Gwalk passed away... :(

I have finally built a slightly newer computer, something a bit more reliable than the piece of crap I once had!

Hope everyone has been doing good~!  If you tag me, try to keep it to Mondays, or sunday nights... Cause I probably wont respond any other day/night.

  • Amanda's avatar
    Amanda
    Moderator
    7 years ago

    Hey!! I was going to reach out to you actually... I had something funky come up with my nighthawk. After getting some new Google products because I'm super behind in technology, my nighthawk on really old (but very stable) firmware decided it wanted to turn on ReadySHARE and all the ReadyJUNK in addition to something called TiVo Connect. For the past week my LAN just dragged... horrible latency spikes and whatnot. Turned it off and all went back to (sort of) normal. The TiVo thing was just requesting multicast heartbeats over and over every minute or so, then all my cast-enabled devices (laptop, pixel phones, etc) would all respond at the same time so this giant London-wipee sized chunk of "YES IM HERE" beacons would clog up my LAN. In short, have you ever experienced that?

     

    Also... I miss Gwalk a whole bunch :(

     

    ~Amanda

     

    edit: by the way, I labeled our modems in the lab the same way you did, lol. 

    • GabeU's avatar
      GabeU
      Distinguished Professor IV
      7 years ago
      Amandawrote:

      this giant London-wipee sized chunk of "YES IM HERE" beacons  

       

       

      OMG.  That thing is just beyond disgusting!!!!  "YES I'M HERE, AND I'M EXTREMELY GROSS!"  :p  

      • maratsade's avatar
        maratsade
        Distinguished Professor IV
        7 years ago

        That's nasty,  ETA: But hey, people are wiping, so that's a plus, right? LOL

         

        GabeUwrote:
        Amandawrote:

        this giant London-wipee sized chunk of "YES IM HERE" beacons  

         

         

        OMG.  That thing is just beyond disgusting!!!!  "YES I'M HERE, AND I'M EXTREMELY GROSS!"  :p  

         

    • C0RR0SIVE's avatar
      C0RR0SIVE
      Associate Professor
      7 years ago

      Never experienced that with a Nighthawk before... You have the R7000 right?

      Have you thought about going Merlin..?  I have been using a Merlin port on my R7000 for sometime and have never had issues once going to it... Currently I am sitting on 380.68_3
      http://www.linksysinfo.org/index.php?threads/asuswrt-merlin-on-netgear-r7000.71108/

      That aside, I have no idea why it would automatically be turning on the ready share junk, check firmware updates to see if they addressed such an issue in any of them?

      • Amanda's avatar
        Amanda
        Moderator
        7 years ago

        Yes, the R7000. It's odd about readyshare since it appears to be dependent on having a USB connected to the router (I don't) or having a readyshare vault cloud account (I don't). I wonder if the massive multicast pushes somehow triggered it. 

         

        I'm so far behind in firmware, but I have heard horror stories about people updating the firmware on the nighthawk. I may create a backup and try a different firmware this weekend, I'll let you know if I succeed. I really don't want to get a new router since I'm really attached to this one, but I think that soon I won't have the option. 

         

        ~Amanda