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Wifi routers have this notorious problem with the nvram. Sometimes some state in the nvram is corrupted and the routers would stop working. Turning off and on
by ww520 6y ago
Wifi routers have this notorious problem with the nvram. Sometimes some state in the nvram is corrupted and the routers would stop working. Turning off and on again won't work. A factory-reset to wipe everything out is the only way to get out of the corrupted state.
- hinkley 6y agoAround the time of Randall Monroe's "shibboleet" comic, I had an ISP connection that would flake out. If nobody kicked the cord on my end, the same series of events played out every time: Check the cables. Turn it off for 30 seconds. Check the connection to the router. Check the lights. Try random other shit. ISP reboots their modem instead of mine. Networking restored. Now, in theory, when a commercial modem loses carrier it should reset the connection completely. This they kept telling me, every four or five months for two years. And every time I got to sit patiently while their support person learned that this is not always the case, over the course of the next 20 minutes. If I tried to tell them about last time, then they would verbally pat me on the head and keep wasting my time. Whatever cooperative game or The Killer Is About to Reveal Himself was now a distant memory.