Re: Can a router die in spurts?

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From: Desk Rabbit
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:53

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sheldon@sheldon.notadomain wrote:
> Over the past few weeks, I've had a lot of unexplained outages for my

> I know nothing lasts forever, but it really looks like my internet
> outages are traceable to the router (I've had Time Warner out to check
> the modem and it's fine).  What confuses me is that I'd think that if
> the router were to go bad, it would just die and not work, ever,
> period.  What I have is 98%+ uptime, always fixable by recycling the
> router.  Can routers die like this?
Yes. As my old electronics tutor used to say, there are only two kinds 
of faults; an open circuit or a short circuit, either of which can be 
intermittent. Which I guess is three :-)

> If I need to replace the router, what's a good recommendation?  I
> don't need anything fancy.  I have my eyes on a Netgear WGR614,
> although that too is a pretty old model.
Anything that fits your requiremnets and budget would be appropriate. I 
personally wouldn't buy Netgear any more but Linksys and Zyxel are good 
products.

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