Conflicting voice issues (router config)

[Aaron Barclay 878822]

Alright, I've got a situation here that noone in the Linksys department has been able to solve or any of my technical friends. My roommate and I are both controllers and pilots on VATSIM. We seem to have a voice problem when we are on the same voice channel (i.e. both on rw.liveatc.net or spain.vatsim.net). When I'm working center and my roommate is working Tower or something (doesn't have to be CTR and TWR, this is just an example), we have to be on different voice servers (one on liveatc and one on spain.vatsim.net). If we connect to the same channel, the router appears to flip out and one of us loses voice capabilities and cannot hear the pilots. That is the VRC/controller aspect of the problem.

 

Now for the flying side of the problem and I think it's the same thing: Whenever we fly together, if we both are connected to the same frequency (maybe LA Center or something), we basically are a bomb to the frequency. Sometimes we can both hear just fine, other times only one of us can hear and other times, we bomb the controllers frequency and his voice goes out. None of this affects our ability to transmit, just receive.

 

Now for things we have tried to fix this:

 

1) we have tried port forwarding. That didn't work.

2) we tried port triggering. That didn't work

3) we TALKED about using static IP's but we're advised against it.

4) we tried doing nothing and not forwarding or triggering anything and that didn't work

 

The odd thing here seems that whenever we go over to a friends house who has the EXACT same router, we have no problems controlling on the same voice servers. We checked his router configurations and there is no forwarding or triggering on at all. Nothing is special about his setup.

 

Another odd thing: we were all set up in a hotel (5 computers) with another router, exactly the same model again, and no voice problems.

 

Other instances: I had two DIFFERENT friends over with their laptops to control and same thing. We all had to be on different voice servers or it screwed everything up and the router had to be reset and computers restarted.

 

My thoughts: Our router (Linksys WRT54GS) seems to freak out whenever voice transmissions come into the router and it doesn't know which computer to send the voice data to. Since the other routers seem to work fine, I'm thinking it's either a faulty router, something to do with the cable modem/company or a configuration setting of some sort. Anyone have any other ideas/thoughts/comments? I hope I've provided enough information for a solution.

 

Regards,

 

Aaron Barclay