"Dave Liquorice"  writes:

> On Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:10:50 +0100, John Devereux wrote:
>
>> We have had this for months now, with these problems for many or most 
>> weekends and many evenings. I am getting a lot of pressure to change 
>> providers, I think one more "weekend" blip should do it. (For us the 
>> evenings and weekends are the *worst* times for you to to schedule your 
>> maintenance, since noone is there to reboot the router and of course 
>> there is no technical support either).
>
> Very good points. Maybe an weekly "at risk" period from 1000 to 1100
> on a Tuesday morning would be better?
>
> As a short term quick 'n dirty solution how about puting the router
> on a time switch that turns it off for a minute in the we small hours
> every night?

Historically the problem has been that the router does not always
reconnect - it stays stuck on 0.0.0.0. Recently I manually set the WAN
address, and that seemed to cure that problem for a week. But last night
it again did not reconnect until power-cycled this morning.

> Or for a longer term soultion feed it through a power
> switch that you can dial into over the phone line. I think there are
> quite cheap single socket ones available that respond to DTMF tones,
> so you could do it from your mobile whilst down the pub...

Hmmm, good idea. Did not know this was available, will look into it.


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John Devereux