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What does it mean for your LAN to stay up if your devices connected wirelessly lose connectivity and the other devices on your LAN lose Internet access when you
by kbd 11y ago
What does it mean for your LAN to stay up if your devices connected wirelessly lose connectivity and the other devices on your LAN lose Internet access when your router goes down?
- simoncion 11y agoThe majority of the devices on my LAN are wired and -even though this might not apply to OnHub users[0]-, my wireless APs are also attached to a switch. So, what it means for my LAN when my router reboots is that the LAN loses Internet access [1] for about a minute. [0] I guess we don't know how sophisticated the link handling is in the OnHub. It might be able to keep the AP active and pass traffic through it (and its LAN port) while restarting the OS and do similar things while restarting the AP. The marketing copy does make it sound like you'll get near-constant connectivity, no matter what the software on the thing is doing, and I have seen (ages ago) NICs that would do basic packet handling even if the machine they were attached to was powered down. [1] And -I think- all uPnP-initiated port forwards.