[DKYang]

I just installed my wireless router. A Linksys WRT54G. I installed the newest firmware and etc.

I am using quick download with clubbox right now and it is really slow compared to what it used to be w/o the router. Right now it's around 100 kb/s but it used to be about 500 kb/s. I opened up port 19101 since what I've read when I googled but that is still not helping. Any ideas?

Thanks.

[DaRkViEt73]

500kb/s? O_o I rarely ever get faster than 80kb/s for the files I get from clubbox's quickdown. Then again, I don't use the mainstream clubboxes so that explains most of it away.

Clubbox speeds vary because the uploading is done by others. If it's not a very popular file, your downloads will be slow regardless of whether you're using quickdownload or not. Hell, sometimes you can have it sit there for a day or two before it downloads. That's what's crappy about it IMO. But if you know for sure it's the router then read on.

I suggest you check the version number of your linksys wrt54g router. If you've got a supported version then go flash it with a hacked firmware like DD-WRT. It turns that POS linksys into a very reliable and powerful router. It's especially fast and reliable for P2P apps like bit-torrent where super fast downloads and hundreds of connections will choke or crash alot of routers (including many linksys routers with stock firmware). Be sure to also apply the patch recommended in uTorrent's FAQ for bit-torrent.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DD-WRT

With the uTorrent's script and the aftermarket firmware upgrade, you can OC your router and handle 4096 simultaneous connections fast and reliably. Heck, you can even boost the transmitting power of the router's wireless if you want. Hopefully you've got a supported version of the WRT54G.

[DKYang]

Thanks for the info.

The link I was downloading from was definitely not old or shouldn't be unpopular. It was the newest Heroine 6 from one of the very popular clubbox's around k-music forums. I'll check out the other firmware and re-read what you just said tomorrow. I'll download the newest Xman tomorrow with and w/o the 3rd party firmware and come back.

Quick question, will it be the same even if I used a usb wifi with my desktop? Just wandering.

[DaRkViEt73]

Quick question, will it be the same even if I used a usb wifi with my desktop? Just wandering.

My honest answer is I don't know for sure.

In theory, it should be the same speed because the limiting factor would be your cable/dsl download speed. But the added latency of wireless, the USB overhead and (comparatively speaking) unreliable nature of a wireless connection might slow things down a bit. I don't use my wireless to do anything as taxing on bandwidth as BT. However, if I were to put money on it I'd say there's no difference in speed when you're download single files like from clubboxes and maybe a small but significant difference when doing BT (because of the hundreds of concurrent connections involved). That's assuming you're getting a full signal at all times.

[DKYang]

I flashed it and it's still the same. 50 kb/s with quick download is not good from the newest Xman from NowNForever, Creidesca, and Mandy clubbox's

I plugged the Ethernet cable back into the modem. No router interfering. That doesn't work anymore, I have no clue why, it's directly connected with the modem.

This is pissing me off.

[CK92842]

I flashed it and it's still the same. 50 kb/s with quick download is not good from the newest Xman from NowNForever, Creidesca, and Mandy clubbox's

I plugged the Ethernet cable back into the modem. No router interfering. That doesn't work anymore, I have no clue why, it's directly connected with the modem.

This is pissing me off.

Be sure to check that your Firewall allows the following ports as well, opening up ports is only half the task if you have a software based firewall installed on your system.

[CatGoesMeow]

wireless is a bit slower then cat5

[DKYang]

Be sure to check that your Firewall allows the following ports as well, opening up ports is only half the task if you have a software based firewall installed on your system.

I have ZoneAlarm and it already allows clubbox.

[CK92842]

Have you tried torrent files yet?
Since this may be a bit off topic but I found this quite interesting, course you'll need to see which revision your router is before applying the firmware update.

http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#Special_no...G_GL_GS_routers

Also this article was worth the read as well. I will caution to do this at your own risk.

http://lifehacker.com/software/router/hack...uter-178132.php

[DKYang]

Torrent speeds are great, I think they are better than before. I'm downloading the newest Bleach since it's still popular and it's around 500 kb/s right now, this is after opening up the right ports.

I already took a risk flashing the router with dd_wrt and I don't want to do it again.

Do you or anyone else know what port Clubbox uses? Searching here is useless unless I have lots of time. I did Google and found that someone said it's 19101, which I don't think is right. If I know the real port, I'm pretty sure that my speeds will come back to normal.

[CK92842]

There are tons of Clubbox users here, perhaps just asking a few directly might help you out. But after googling for the past few minutes, I do see listings of it using TCP ports 19101 for file transfers. I managed to pull this information from 3 different websites, try it and see if it does the trick.

[DKYang]

I have done that before posting here. Opened it up just like I did with torrents. Put a range of 19100 - 19200 or something like that. Still has not improved. I'll ask in the other clubbox faq thread about the port.

[DKYang]

Well......since google doesn't help and most of the people don't know. I'm doing my own experimenting on finding the right port or port range for clubbox. It's risky and gonna take a long time but I'm willing to do it. I'll just have to disable it when I'm not using it. Right now my quick download is up at 180 kb/s and still climbing, which is a good start.

[DaRkViEt73]

Maybe everything's normal and that's about as fast as you can get for that file at that time. Oh yeah, you don't need to bother re-flashing anything. DD-WRT is as good as it gets.

Try opening up these ports... I've done my own research awhile back as well as manually monitoring the ports that my clubbox actually uses myself. I currently have the following opened for clubbox:

ports 18000-18200
119, 2630, 19101 & 19801.

Don't forget to do that uTorrent thingie if you haven't done so yet.

[DKYang]

Maybe everything's normal and that's about as fast as you can get for that file at that time. Oh yeah, you don't need to bother re-flashing anything. DD-WRT is as good as it gets.

Try opening up these ports... I've done my own research awhile back as well as manually monitoring the ports that my clubbox actually uses myself. I currently have the following opened for clubbox:

ports 18000-18200
119, 2630, 19101 & 19801.

Don't forget to do that uTorrent thingie if you haven't done so yet.

The uTorrent thing says it does not apply to v. 6 which I have.

I knew for a fact that the speeds could have been higher and I was right once I was able to opened up a wide range of ports. It was just slowly climbing then eventually stopping around 200-500 kb/s depending on the file.

I had opened ports 65000-65500, but it was slowly climbing. After putting the ports you posted, it sky rocketed in the beginning like it used to do last week. My speeds are back to normal.

Thanks for the ports and thanks everyone who tried to help out.

P.S. I think you should have the ports in the Clubbox thread for people in the future. Just my opinion.