I don't get why people preface these types of posts with "It's a good piece of hardware, but..." It's not a good piece of hardware. The actiontec router sucks. It doesn't get me 50Mbps wireless (despite being N (Rev I)), it doesn't have any sort of logging to tell me whats going on, Verizon forces you into using it by only making coax available (the ONT isn't in my apartment and cat5 isn't an option). The default security was WEP up until just recently.
They don't need to compete on hardware and thus the quality suffers.
Anyway, if I connect to my websocket server directly via the LAN, the connection never drops. If I connect via reverse proxy (nginx), the connection never drops. But once I introduce the router into the mix and connect via my external ip address, the connection will drop after about 5-20 minutes. This is an active connection (with keep-alive packets being sent every 30 seconds or so). When it fails, neither end of the socket is notified, and the disconnection will be detected upon failure of the next keep-alive.
This sucks. It'd be manageable if it'd at least closed the connection properly and the endpoints were notified, but that's not the case and it silently drops.
The solution is to lobotomize the router into a bridge and put a linksys in front of it.
Thank you Verizon for this massive dump of a router you take on your customers. I hope google fiber makes its way to nyc at some point.
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