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Just buy a new router if you have a buggy one that needs restarted all the time. This is silly and illogical, if you have a reliability problem fix it, adding

Just buy a new router if you have a buggy one that needs restarted all the time. This is silly and illogical, if you have a reliability problem fix it, adding more parts is not likely to help. What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes?

RKearney 11y ago
Agreed. Without naming the brand of router I have in an effort to not start a brand debate, I must say when you actually end up spending more than $40 on a wireless router, the quality greatly improves. When I lived with my family, I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing). Then I moved out and bought my own equipment. 5 years and counting and the only time this thing has been power cycled is when my home lost power in a storm. You'd be far better off putting the money you'd spend on this gadget towards a better wireless router and call it a day.
- qb45 11y ago
  > I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing). Trust me, hanging or rebooting is the best of the bad things your router can do to you. I had one which would pass LAN->WAN packets without NAT translation if the endian-swapped destination address matched the LAN address block. Want to access X.1.168.192 on default settings? Sorry, not today. And, of course, I didn't use 192.168.1.0/24 but 10.0.0.0/8. It took me weeks to figure out that the thing those few websites which suddenly stopped working had in common was IPs ending with .10 . This was few years ago and since then I haven't bought a single router which wouldn't run OpenWRT or at least DD-WRT.
qb45 11y ago
> What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes? It's obvious, you get another gadget which bypasses the plug when it switches off despite network being up. Capacitors in the router will keep it running for the few milliseconds it takes to enable bypass.
Zash 11y ago
> What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes? Obviously you buy a smart plug that monitors the first smart plug and restarts it if it cuts power to the router while the wifi is working :) Now, if that one starts malfunctioning ...
- Spare_account 11y ago
  Smart plugs all the way down.
Chris2048 11y ago
Sometimes the ISP mandates the modem/router, it has to be the one they give you. And in my case, trying to change it is more trouble than it's worth. Before you ask, there isn't such a great choice in ISPs here either...

RKearney 11y ago

Agreed. Without naming the brand of router I have in an effort to not start a brand debate, I must say when you actually end up spending more than $40 on a wireless router, the quality greatly improves. When I lived with my family, I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing). Then I moved out and bought my own equipment. 5 years and counting and the only time this thing has been power cycled is when my home lost power in a storm. You'd be far better off putting the money you'd spend on this gadget towards a better wireless router and call it a day.

qb45 11y ago
> I thought resetting wireless routers was the norm (all my friends agreed it was a normal thing). Trust me, hanging or rebooting is the best of the bad things your router can do to you. I had one which would pass LAN->WAN packets without NAT translation if the endian-swapped destination address matched the LAN address block. Want to access X.1.168.192 on default settings? Sorry, not today. And, of course, I didn't use 192.168.1.0/24 but 10.0.0.0/8. It took me weeks to figure out that the thing those few websites which suddenly stopped working had in common was IPs ending with .10 . This was few years ago and since then I haven't bought a single router which wouldn't run OpenWRT or at least DD-WRT.

qb45 11y ago

> What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes? It's obvious, you get another gadget which bypasses the plug when it switches off despite network being up. Capacitors in the router will keep it running for the few milliseconds it takes to enable bypass.

Zash 11y ago

> What happens when this smart plug malfunctions and restarts your router every 5 minutes? Obviously you buy a smart plug that monitors the first smart plug and restarts it if it cuts power to the router while the wifi is working :) Now, if that one starts malfunctioning ...

Spare_account 11y ago
Smart plugs all the way down.

Chris2048 11y ago

Sometimes the ISP mandates the modem/router, it has to be the one they give you. And in my case, trying to change it is more trouble than it's worth. Before you ask, there isn't such a great choice in ISPs here either...