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[kargo27]

I was just surfing the interweb and came across people that reboot their modem and/or router on a daily or somewhat periodic basis.

I remember I had a 2Wire ADSL modem/router combo and never had to reboot it.  It worked flawlessly with our 768k/1mbps lightning fast service. 

I never have to reboot my DGL-4500 or SB6120 but do you guys think your hardware needs it?

[Hard Harry]

Ahhhh, this is kind of a trick question. Many times power cycling is hail marry of technical support. Internet is slow, power cycle. Cant get on..power cycle. Weak wireless signal, power cycle. Its such a easy fix for so many different problems, some people come to the conclusion power cycling is needed on a normal basis. It is not. Atleast not once a day/week/and even month some people do it. Many times their is a underlying problem that isn't being addressed. Signal levels causing T3 errors to modem, power fluxation to the equipment, IP conflicts, virus on a computer on the network flooding the router with technical gibberish that causes it to crash. All kinds of stuff. 

[kargo27]

Ahhhh, this is kind of a trick question. Many times power cycling is hail marry of technical support. Internet is slow, power cycle. Cant get on..power cycle. Weak wireless signal, power cycle. Its such a easy fix for so many different problems, some people come to the conclusion power cycling is needed on a normal basis. It is not. Atleast not once a day/week/and even month some people do it. Many times their is a underlying problem that isn't being addressed. Signal levels causing T3 errors to modem, power fluxation to the equipment, IP conflicts, virus on a computer on the network flooding the router with technical gibberish that causes it to crash. All kinds of stuff. 

Makes sense to me, H^2. 

[FurryNutz]

Not on a daily basis IMO. Only reason why i've rebooted is due to a brown out or if I notice that the router seems to on occasion, load up and seems to slow down or once as of lately, I could not access the routers web page at all, kept getting a red error screen. So I rebooted everything. I do believe that rebooting once in a great while doesn't' hurt. However not on a daily basis. If there doing that other than paranoia, then something is wrong. My 2 cents. 

[XS]

Not on a daily basis IMO. Only reason why i've rebooted is due to a brown out or if I notice that the router seems to on occasion, load up and seems to slow down or once as of lately, I could not access the routers web page at all, kept getting a red error screen. So I rebooted everything. I do believe that rebooting once in a great while doesn't' hurt. However not on a daily basis. If there doing that other than paranoia, then something is wrong. My 2 cents. 

That happened to me the other night, could not access the router page or my modem and any new web browser page that I opened would not work, however I had one browser previously opened and was able to surf the web.  I had to unplug and plug the router back in to get to work again.  I also noticed that an hour of Black Ops games did not show up on my recent games list and that was the last thing that was using the interenet when this lock up happened.  Not sure if it was the router or XBL that caused the issue.

[XS]

BTW I was host on all games, about 10 games did not show up.

[FurryNutz]

What didn't show up?

BTW I was host on all games, about 10 games did not show up.

[XS]

When I went in my combat record to check my recent games that hour of playtime was missing.  I wanted to check a couple of games out in theater mode but could not since they did not show up.
This usually happens if I lose connection to the host but I WAS the host and had no connection issues, real weird!

[kargo27]

Now I can understand rebooting if you're having issues of course. 

But rebooting "just to be safe" sounds unnecessary to me.    Do these things have memory drain?

[FurryNutz]

Wonder if thats something with the gaming servers not updating fast enough