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I wonder how many of those could be fixed by simply rebooting the router. I've had numerous problems with my own Time Warner Cable modem/router. It'd always be
by whatever_dude 10y ago
I wonder how many of those could be fixed by simply rebooting the router.
I've had numerous problems with my own Time Warner Cable modem/router. It'd always become pretty bad after about 3 days of operation, dropping my speed to about 2% of what it was initially. I spend months debugging the damn thing, using a custom router, swapping cables, etc, and nothing would fix it.
Until I got a timer and got it to reboot every day at 3 am (the https://xkcd.com/1495 https://xkcd.com/1495 route) and never had the problem again.
- oz 10y agoWas a 2% drop really that noticeable?
- chadwittman 10y agoI think OP is saying it dropped to 2% from 100%. If you remove the "about" and think about it as an estimate, and focus on the "to"... it makes more sense: "Dropping my speed to ~2% of what it was initially".
- whatever_dude 10y agoYes, this. My download speed, measured after a reboot, was 50mbps. It would then drop to ~1mbps after a few days and stay there.
- digi_owl 10y agoRebooting a router is not always an option. Both examples are from "public" wifi where the person with the problem is unlikely to be the only user.
- jo909 10y agoProbably a 5 minute downtime at 4 AM is overall preferable to a continuously unstable connection. Of course an entity like a hotel should just pony up the money for better hardware, but I could excuse that for an (Air)BnB or guest house or vacation apartment.
- jjp 10y agoAnd for guest houses etc the default password device is often unchanged you could always login and reboot for yourself.