On 17/04/2018 13:11, Art Todesco wrote:
On 4/16/2018 8:48 PM, David E. Ross wrote:
How long should a router last?* Mine is over two years old.* Twice
today, I had to reboot it in order to access any Web pages.

When you say router, do you mean DSL or Cable / router?* My DSL / router
had to be rebooted several time yesterday and the day before ... not
because of the router itself, but because something upstream went down.
If I would have waited, it would have recovered itself, but a reboot
gets service back much faster.* Also, and most importantly, my
DSL/router will not route when DSL goes down.* So, you can't even get
from one computer to another during a DSL hiccup or outage.* What a
great design!* And my guess is that others suffer similar problems.

A DSL modem that's switched on during daylight hours will often have
trouble continuing to work after dark. Switching it off and on will get
it going again.

Quite why they seem to be unable to make them so that they can tell when
the error rates are getting alarmingly high and automatically recover on
their own I don't know. But I've never owned one that wasn't quite happy
to just sit there for hours reporting that it couldn't decode anything
because there was too much line noise for the speed it had initially
negotiated when conditions were better.

Even once a DSL modem has adjusted to the worst conditions (usually
night time) (by being switched off and on late at night) it's likely
it'll occasionally need switching off and on again, maybe about once a week.

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Brian Gregory (in England).