Ok. have 2 PCs and the x-box networked on a linksys router. things were working fine. PCs tranfer between eachother at 8 M/s and the X-box to PC STARTED at 2+ M/sec on day one. after a few days, it dropped to 600-700 K/s. then today it was going at lovely 10-20 K/s--6 hrs to rip a game! yeah right. Didn't change a single thing, it just gradually died away on me. So I figure what the heck--my router still had the factory firmware and was due for an upgrade so i put in the newest 1.42.7 and now <drumroll> I CAN'T CONNECT TO THE X-BOX! still the same settings, but no luck. it gets in, but just hangs when it tries to list the main directory. have tried both PASV and PORT (only PORT will even get that far). tried flashfxp (which worked so beautifully before) and cuteftp pro (which kept locking the box up after a few minutes anyway...).

So my question is (yes, there was a point to my babbling!) has anyone else had problems specifically with the linksys 4 port router after a firmware upgrade? Any ideas on settings in the router i might want to look at? i even tried changed internet settings that should make no difference on a LAN (like DMZ hosting and port forwarding) that just made it worse (of course i undid it and got back to the original problem of getting all the way in with out it listing the files).

if worse comes to worse, i'll just either try a new straight cable on the router or test a crossover cable directly to the pc (of course i'd have to BUY the crossover cable and a new nic card which SUX for something that was already working before! why the heck did i spend $80 on a router?!)

anyway, all thoughts are appreciated. maybe even suggestions on a different ftp client i could try?

thanks!
NeoCage

oh, and if anyone has an older firmware for it (BEF-SR41 V2) please email me! I didn't see archives on the site so i couldn't go back to the old one (I think mine came with 1.30). On the bright side, though somehow the new 1.42.7 firmware did boost my connection to the internet from 3000 kbps to almost 4000 kbps, though that could just be a low traffic late night fluke...

thanks again!
NeoCage

ok, i went through all of the flash fxp settings and just left everything the way it was and clicked ok. this is because i have discovered that win apps can be VERY stipid sometimes so u actually have to go in and REMIND them what their settings are! anyway, this worked to get me connected to the x-box again. however, i'm still having this damn 12 K/s problem even with different cables. am i missing something here about the life of the x-box modem? the rest of my network is tops so it's gotta be the box. anyone else notice a performance decline with time on theirs? i've probably tranferred about 50 GB or so back and forth over the past week and it gets worse every day.

hopefully i'll have another box soon from a trade to test this theory on, but in the meantime i'm really curious if this is a known problem. oh, and i don't think its the x-box hd cause it does the same speeds from dvd or hd. maybe i'll give a shot on using a different drive in my pc to receive the files or defrag the drive i'm using. couldn't hurt to try.

will keep u guys posted as the story unfolds in case it happens to anyone else cause this seems to be a new one!

NeoCage

ADDED: ok, defragging my pc drives isn't the problem. it's definitely something beyond my pc. also notable is that the d/l from the x-box is hurting much more than upping to it (12 k/s vs 800 k/s). both were 2000 k/s in the beginning....i'm stumped. have to wait for another box to test unless someone comes up woth something good to try...

Stupid suggestion, but did you check to see if you didn't accidently plug in the ethernet cable into the uplink port and have port 1 used up as well?

I have the same router as you and always upgrade my firmware and haven't experienced the same problem.

no, it's a good suggestion--i actually did that with my first hub a few years back! but didn't make that mistake this time. i learned from that one :D

Also glad to know that you are not experiencing the problem, so I can rule out the upgrade. that must have just been a coincidence. am really beginning to think something has gone funny with my x-box :(

thanks,
NeoCage

did you try another network cable? check the xbox rj45 connector for any pin misalignments. do a ping to the xbox ip and see if there is any latency problems. do you get the same low speeds from the other pc to the xbox,if so try reinstalling tcp/ip. Are speeds ok between pcs? also you dont have a firewall or anything?

tried other network cables already, same thing. pc to pc u/l and d/l is a full 8000+ k/s, but neither one can connect properly to the x-box. not only is it slow as shite, but it keeps locking up. wasn't doing that before (except with CuteFTP pro). all 3 machines are detected as T100 full duplex by the router and internally. haven't yet pinged the x-box. i do have the firewall built into the router, but that has no effect on machines on the LAN behind it. besides i use the poert forwarding and all to serve ftps and connect to others actively rather than passively on the net. still have my 3000-4000 kbps connection to the net. it's just gotta be something wrong with the xbox or the EvoX. one thing i haven't yet tried is using a static IP on the x-box. i let my DHCP assign it and i've already gone through 3 different ones. I only wish I had imaged the drive before installing EvoX (yeah, I know that was mistake #1 but I was impatient!) so that I could see what files it created so that I could trash em and start EvoX from scratch just keeping my menu.ini. it seems unlikely that it would be hardware failure, so i'd put my money on some kind of EvoX glitch that could be easily fixed if I knew what to wipe from the drive. I may take a look and see if i can figure it out, and just back up anything i remove from the drive.

thanks!
NeoCage

hey noecage did you ever figure this out because Im having the same problem now please post what your solution was. Thanks

I first started with a crossover cable and the rate was 800-900kb/sec, now with a router its pretty much the same, its a Belklin. I upgraded the firmware and thank God it still works, I didnt imagine that an update could cause the trouble. I wonder how u could get 2m/sec...

Couldnt u try downgrading the firmware of the hub? maybe its the cable too. Oh yeah and I use a static ip on my pc, xbox and ps2 and never had any probs. Try that instead.

wow, talk about timing--this is the first time i checked my email since last week and there was a reply to this old thread ;)

what worked for me was a simple app switch i saw suggested in other posts--i continue to get ~900k up and down if i use flashfxp, but with WS FTP Pro i download from the xbox at 2500k and upload to it at 9000k!! I thought it was a load of horse pucky when i read the post but it really worked so try it out ;)

NeoCage