Re: In need of advice

rico_001@xxxxxxxxxxx (Rico) hath wroth:

In article <20hhv15sk6nc21iadq4kg6kgm20o7352pu@xxxxxxx>, Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"Roy Colson" <rcolsonNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> hath wroth:

I am presently using a Linksys wireless B router BEFW11S4 which I wish to
replace. My main problem is frequent loss of the internet which is corrected
by unplugging and replugging the router.

I have the same router (BEFW11S4 v4) with exactly the same problem. I
got lazy and "solved" it by putting a Radio Shack timer on the AC
power and just having it turn the router power on and off twice per
day.

Utterly brilliant. I wish I had hand that little brainstorm not long ago. A
Kludgey fix, but what a clever way to force a reboot now and again.
Thanks!!! and I really mean that. I can't beleive this hasn't dawned on me
before reading it.
(in this case not a misbehaving AP, but some other gadgets that would cost
even more to replace)

I've used other schemes in the past. In the bad old days of early
ISP's, I would constantly have to drive to the server farm to punch
the reset button. I had more servers hung by garbage from the UPS
power than from anything delivered by the local power company.
Sometimes, I had to beg the ISP staff to reboot the servers. No fun
at 3AM.

My initial implimentation was a garage door opener and remote. I
would drive by the ISP, punch the button, and drive off. At 3AM,
that's about all the thinking I was capeable of doing.

Later, I installed a pager reboot scheme. I wired a Motorola Bravo
pager to recognize a specific "phone number" code and close a relay
momentarily. Later, I built them using a solid state switch instead
of a relay. All my pagers were setup on the same cap code (I have a
programmer). Send the magic number and a server reboots.

These days, we have SSH, PC Anywhere, VNC, and such, so such pager
reboots are no longer required. Or so I thought. Recently, I'm
getting involved in remote weather stations. Hangs and crashes seem
are epidemic, so I resurrected the pager reboot scheme. However,
several of the mountain top have 100watt+ 930MHz paging transmitters
nearby, which makes the pager scheme useless. So, I resorted to the
usual clock AC timer scheme to just reboot the beast every day and be
done with it.

I think I have about a dozen different timers. Some are X10 based.
Others are integrated. A few are just digital clocks with a relay
wired to the alarm. Whatever works.

Drivel: I accidentally found this item on the Radio Shock web pile.
PathLock® E100 NETimer
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2111064
Yet another internet security contraption. Hmmm... Discontinued.
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