Why Do We Have To Restart Routers? 936
jaypaulw writes "I've owned a WRT54G, some cheap D-Link home Wi-Fi/firewall/routers, and now an Apple Airport Extreme (100/10 ethernet ports). In the context of the discussion about the worst uses of Windows — installation in places where an embedded device is superior — I've gotten to wondering why it's necessary to reboot these devices so frequently, like every few days. It seems like routers, purpose-built with an embedded OS, should be the most stable devices on my network."
The most likely reason (Score:5, Funny)
You're doing it wrong.
USR8054 (Score:5, Funny)
US Robotics 8054 (USR8054). At least it has the decency to reset itself though throughout the day. Saves some manual labor I suppose.
Re:The most likely reason (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I've never had a problem with my rou
Re:The most likely reason (Score:5, Funny)
Mine never used to need re-booting until I added a Vista Laptop to the network???
Re:The most likely reason (Score:0, Funny)
How'd you submit that?
Re:I'll tell you why ... (Score:2, Funny)
And he's just one guy, you'd think a company with the resources of Linksys could do an even better job.
Unless he holds meetings with himself and forms committees of himself, I'd say hes got at least one advantage.
Re:rebooting routers? (Score:4, Funny)
It could also be possible that the firmware allows no changes at all to the running configuration, forcing a restart for any change made in an attempt at making it less hackable.
That's just stupid.
Honestly, who sacrifices convinience for security?
Re:It shouldn't be... (Score:2, Funny)
All it did was run an FTP server for years.
LOL, sorry but I have to ask. Did you install it?
Re:The most likely reason (Score:3, Funny)
It took me 9 years of being a broadband customer to realize that the "NO CARRIER" meme is irrelevant. Thank you.
Re:The most likely reason (Score:5, Funny)
Oh, very simple: I have a fr
Re:The most likely reason (Score:3, Funny)
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Yeah! And nobody *really* knows why the chicken crossed the road, or why fruit flies like a banana. What's the matter with these people?
Re:Ironic Connection Sharing (Score:3, Funny)
I just use a cheap Pentium 2 running Windows XP with Internet Connection Sharing. Disabled the automatic updates and firewalled it properly over 18 months ago, and haven't had to touch the machine since.
In which case, this article is for you:
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/11/003251 [slashdot.org]
Re:The most likely reason (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, I've never had a problem with my rou
You know what, those jokes are fucking la
Re:The most likely reason (Score:2, Funny)
Usually to set the password for 'admin'
Re:The most likely reason (Score:3, Funny)
Grandma owns the basement and pays the bills.
Re:The most likely reason (Score:3, Funny)
It may have something to do with horoscopes as well. My aunt Mabel knows several people in her trailer park who had routers who had tons of problems, and they were all Pisces. Hmm. Now I don't know anything about any of this, but when they're owned by Geminis, especially ones not married to Capricorns they seem to work a bit better.
Re:The most likely reason (Score:3, Funny)
I tried to mod you up, but my connection timed o
Re:I hope this explains a few things. (Score:5, Funny)
If I had modpoints, you could have them all for that.