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The Graveyard - Products No Longer Supported => DIR-655 => Routers / COVR => Beta Code! => Topic started by: ruski on July 22, 2010, 02:22:25 PM
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Is there any chance we could get a scheduled restart feature?
Thanks
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The simple workaround is to plug your router's power cord in to a small clock-timer device that will shut power off at a scheduled time each day or so....then after 10 or 15 minutes it turns it back on....
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Haven't seen a router (in this class) that offers this feature out-of-the-box, but the timer solution is quite inexpensive and effective.
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that would acknowledge that there is a reason why the router would need to be restarted.
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that would acknowledge that there is a reason why the router would need to be restarted.
And that reason is....
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And that reason is....
Simple... every router... no matter how close to perfect.. gets locked up every once in a short/long while.
My netgear had web access directly to a restart page (only from the LAN side). I ran a cron job that checked once an hour, and if it couldn't get out.. it restarted the router... that particular "gem" of a router needed to be restarted every few days (it had an overheating issue as best as I could tell).
The DIR-655 is MUCH more stable.. but its not perfect. I had no internet ~2 weeks ago. Unplugged the router and replugged and I had internet again... if it had had a restart, I could have done the restart automatically instead of having my internet down for several hours (it died in the middle of the night).
So yes, a restart feature would be welcome.
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My 655 has been on 24/7 for over six months.
The only time I have ever had to restart is after a firmware upgrade.
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Mine never last more than around 12 days.
And wireless sucks. 100% connection quality in router page and yet only at 108 instead of 300. Yes nick can do 300 just fine.
And wireless g with 89% connection quality and only getting 24.
Pretty crappy!