02-Oct-2015

Router issue?
Yesterday, I had a large download – almost 6Gb – that I had to retrieve from a site that is connected through a ADSL line – which is a-symmetric – and that showed. It took about 5 hours to get the file – and that shows in the router’s statistics:

Traffic graph
Traffic graph

This morning, I had to restart the router since it had become a bit sluggish, and the NAT session table showed more sessions from my work address than are feasible; so it looks as if dropped connections are not freed where they should. Perhaps I could schedule a reboot of the router once a week, when it usually quiet…