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Originally Posted by aaronpaul
My experience:
I'm getting several hours of uninterrupted UMA, then it drops and will get flaky for a while, then connect back up and run strong again. If I force it to reconnect by turning off/on wi-fi - it hooks right back up no problem.
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This smells like a router that has some flaky firmware -- I remember (the memory is a bit fuzzy here) reading during research for a project about many home routers not working correctly with sustained BitTorrent sessions; basically the performance slowly degraded the longer the client was connected. I believe there's a blacklist/whitelist of good routers floating around out there - my memory says that it was maybe the uTorrent FAQ?
The point - your router may have some flaky performance issues with the internal NAT hash (routing) table it maintains; perhaps after an extended period of time the presence of your device in the MAC/ip hash/routing table starts to compound in some way eventually leading to an "overload" (my phrase). Releasing the BB from your router and reconnecting has the effect of releasing all the router memory holding those NAT maps and starting again from scratch. A do-over, if you will.
EDIT: yup, it was the uTorrent FAQ.
http://www.utorrent.com/faq.php#Spec..._GL_GS_routers