[Cialug] actiontec modem with high load

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 08:37:05PM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> >On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 10:02:38AM -0600, Dave Weis wrote:
> >>
> >>Ever seen what happens to an Actiontec DSL modem with 10 gigs a day of
> >>traffic?
> >
> >I'm surprised that's even possible. Amazing what 1.5Mbps can do.
> 
> It's a 7 meg connection.
> 
> >>BusyBox v0.61.pre (2005.04.22-01:13+0000) Built-in shell (ash)
> >>Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
> >>
> >># uptime
> >>  1:51pm  up  1:51, load average: 2.00, 1.97, 1.91
> >>
> >>Ouch!
> >
> >Back when I was still running Qwest firmware on mine it seemed to
> >always have a load average of 1.0. I think it's the way they
> >do monitoring of stuff that creates such a high load.  However, now
> >that I've got OpenWrt on this box it maintains a much more reasonable
> >load, usually about 0.0.
> 
> I was digging around for a while, is it on the same site as the other 
> openwrt stuff?

Yes, http://wiki.openwrt.org/OpenWrtDocs/Hardware/Actiontec/GT701-WG
links to most of the available information.  I had to build my own
from source as AR7 support is still experimental.  I'm using r2601
from trunk.  Currently the wireless and status LEDs are nonfunctional.

I've only tested this with 256k/256k service.  The forum post from
August mentioned that (at least back then) the firmware for the ADSL
modem wasn't able to keep the connection trained at 7M/896k.  I've got
no idea if the in-tree firmware has since been updated.

	Jonathan Kollasch
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