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Author Topic: Must restart/reboot router every week  (Read 6695 times)

twl1066

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Must restart/reboot router every week
« on: June 15, 2009, 08:26:08 PM »
Every Sunday morning the kids tell me they cannot connect to the internet.  The wireless network is functioning, they just don't have access outside the house.  I reboot and then it works for them. 
What is odd is that I don't have an issue from my laptop or from a ethernet connected PC when they have the issue. 
The kids have HP desktops with built in wireless G connectivity.
I have a HP Pavilion dv6 laptop with N connectivity. 
The third HP desktop connects to the router via a ethernet cable.

Any thoughts?  I was thinking of automating the restart somehow. 
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gdomen

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Re: Must restart/reboot router every week
« Reply #1 on: June 15, 2009, 10:05:04 PM »
I had a similar problem with a different modem in my winter home in Florida and I ended up putting a timer on it and had it reboot at 3 AM every morning when everyone was asleep.
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smlunatick

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Re: Must restart/reboot router every week
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2009, 06:57:49 AM »
It might be a problem with the ISP service????  I have seen some ISP providers that will "force" a "broadband" modem to disconnect if they determine it was inactive too long.  You may want to adjust the inactivity "timer" and set up a reconnect interval.
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chris_cesar

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Re: Must restart/reboot router every week
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2009, 12:51:27 AM »
Quote from: twl1066 on June 15, 2009, 08:26:08 PM
Every Sunday morning the kids tell me they cannot connect to the internet.  The wireless network is functioning, they just don't have access outside the house.  I reboot and then it works for them. 
What is odd is that I don't have an issue from my laptop or from a ethernet connected PC when they have the issue.
The kids have HP desktops with built in wireless G connectivity.
I have a HP Pavilion dv6 laptop with N connectivity. 
The third HP desktop connects to the router via a ethernet cable.

Any thoughts?  I was thinking of automating the restart somehow. 

The issue is already isolated. You can try update the NIC driver.
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chris_cesar

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Re: Must restart/reboot router every week
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2009, 12:54:43 AM »
Quote from: gdomen on June 15, 2009, 10:05:04 PM
I had a similar problem with a different modem in my winter home in Florida and I ended up putting a timer on it and had it reboot at 3 AM every morning when everyone was asleep.

There is an option in the router if your setting it to a PPPoE, try set the Reconnect Mode to Always On. You may post the router logs here so we could see the activity on your router when it disconnects.
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davidhildreth

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Re: Must restart/reboot router every week
« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2009, 03:46:41 PM »
My 615 will stop assigning proper IP addresses after a day or so. My wired connections stay just fine, but my G Macbook Pro and iPhone both won't reconnect and show real DHCP assigned info until I restart the router.
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