NCW has mentioned in a few places receiving reports of routers which crash with rclone. Personally, I’ve noticed in two different EE-connected homes that the first generation EE Brightbox 1 router consistently crashes when uploading large files using rclone. That particular model’s firmware is so hopeless that it generally requires a manual restart when it crashes with rclone.
In an ideal world, every location would have a decent router. But in the real world, we may sometimes want to use rclone via a router model which cannot cope.
Does anyone have any advice about settings (either on rclone or on the router/firewall) which may help ease the pressure?
rclone:
–bwlimit [not sure this has an effect on crash frequency]
–checkers=1
–transfers=1
Like I said in my question, sometimes we all find ourselves connecting via a low-quality router with no option to change it or upgrade the firmware. I’m looking for advice on making the best of a bad router.
rebooting the router might help. other than that not sure any setting rclone or anything else can be done. the best i can see is having rclone test connection every packet then have it wait for a connection before sending packets.
but that could be a lot of overhead stuff.
