678's don't have much cpu power by today's standards. And NAT is always 
somewhat stateful, it has to learn and keep a mapping of ip and port 
combos that have been assigned statically and dynamically and keep track 
of when they have been terminated or need to time out. A while back when 
I used gamespy to do a ping and game status check on a list of 1000+ 
servers the first 50 or so would always ping good, and the rest were 
1000+ms. When pinged individually they would ping well. The 678 can't 
process high numbers of packets real well. This is likely related to the 
OP's issue.


On 7/23/2010 8:29 PM, Justin Krejci wrote:
> Your 10mbps ethernet interface on the router should be fine with any amount of traffic from the DSL. The 678 is not stateful I am pretty sure so I doubt it has any connection exhaustion issues. I have in any case run many high volume nmap scans across my 678 with never an issue.
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