Grounding issue, possibly. You try taking the case lid off and seeing 
whats going on in there? especially where your hand was putting pressure 
on..

But you do bring a whole new approach to my kick it and see if it works 
theory =) even tho you just put your hand on it.


Brett Krueger [ sigterm at rootednetworks dot com ]
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Tom Dostal wrote:
> Thanks for the helpful comments from all.  Here's what I did:
> 
> I found a different 18v power supply and used that.
> 
> I loaded the latest beta firmware from the monowall site.
> 
> I reset to factory defaults.
> 
> I changed the default firewall rule for the lan to "allow fragmented
> packets".  This seemed to help before.
> 
> The throughput (according to the traffic graph) was then about 100kbs
> (which seemed to be about twice what I was getting before).
> 
> For a test, I went to the windows update site and downloaded a large
> service pack rollup.  I was getting about 100 kb.
> 
> Out of pure coincidence, I put my hand on top of the wrap aluminum
> case and put a small amount of downward pressure on it.  All of a
> sudden my thoughput jumped to 3Mbps!
> 
> The next morning, the throughput was back to 100kbs.  I started
> downloading a cd image from Microsoft.  I put my hand on top of the
> wrap aluminum case and put a small amount of downward pressure on it. 
> All of a sudden my thoughput jumped to 3Mbps!
> 
> I'm thinking maybe a grounding issue?
> 
> On 7/22/05, John Stoffel <john at stoffel dot org> wrote:
> 
>>Phil> I have the WRAP 1-2 as well and I am in Australia where its winter at
>>Phil> the moment and my computer room is very cool. I am also having very
>>Phil> bad performance from this box and I think its due to the heat as when
>>Phil> I touch the case of the WRAP box its almost at the point where its too
>>Phil> hot to touch. Symptons include;
>>Phil> - Complete network slow down (turning off for a while is only way to fix)
>>Phil> - Corrupted my memory card due to the heat and had to re-flash
>>Phil> - DHCP stopped working; had to re-flash (this is re-occuring, has
>>Phil> happened about 6 times now)
>>
>>What kind of power supply do you have on your WRAP board?  It sounds
>>to me that you've got one with a voltage output on the low end, so
>>that the WRAP is having to bring up the voltage internally.
>>
>>Make sure you have a power supply that is pushing 15-18V to the WRAP
>>board, that should help alot.
>>
>>If you post your power supply info, I can check what my power supply
>>is when I get home and we can compare.  But my WRAP runs just fine
>>from waht I see...
>>
>>I'm runnig 1.2b7 I think.  Should probably upgrade to the latest beta
>>and go back down to the 4.x series of kernel.
>>
>>John
>>
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