Because of that problem I have with my router losing it’s mind every few days, I decided to take advantage of a feature in the new firmware that allows you to schedule a reboot every day. I set it for 2 am. Last night was the first night.
I got up this morning, and nothing seemed to be talking to the outside world. I went to the router’s status page, and it showed no problems – the router had been up since 2am, I still had the same IP address, no indication of trouble. I clicked the “DHCP renew” button, however, and it gave me a new IP. That’s not good – that indicates that it probably hadn’t been talking to RoadRunner’s DHCP server since it came up. I guess there’s still a bug in the auto-reboot code.
And now you’re back! I wondered where you’d gone – it meant I had to do some work instead.
I have a WRT54G, and know people with several others, and *none* of them needs to be rebooted. Is there any chance that you’re seeing hardware problems, not software bugs?
I tried to comment here, but spam karma ate it.
Scott, SpamKarma thought you took too long (more than 1800 seconds) between loading the comment form and actually commenting. I don’t know if that was your fault or mine, but you might want to look at your system clock and time zone settings.
Ahh, I see. I guess that makes sense–I had a tab for this page open for a while before I got around to writing a comment.
As to your suggestion of a hardware bug – I did find one web site that suggested that the 2.2 version of the hardware is prone to hardware problems, which is why they rushed out a 3.0 version soon afterwards. However, another site says that the only hardware difference between v2.2 and v3.0 is a button for “Broadcom’s new Secure EZ Setup”.
I very much doubt I’ll be able to convince Amazon to take it back, so I guess I’m left hoping that the DD-WRT guys fix the automatic rebooting problem.
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Holly, if you want good “arrgghh”, you’ve come to the right place. Forget all those pirates.
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