Re: Can a router die in spurts?

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From: wisdomkiller & pain
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2008 05:23

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sheldon@sheldon.notadomain wrote:

> Over the past few weeks, I've had a lot of unexplained outages for my
> home internet connection.  It's not been my ISP (at least Time Warner
> always claims there's no outage in my area when I call).  And the
> outages either last a couple minutes, max, or if prolonged, they
> immediately vanish when I unplug my router, wait a couple minutes,
> then plug it back in.
> 
> The router is a Netgear MR814, more than five years old.  I have a

Wait ... I have a MR814V3 here sitting somewhere in the dark, which did the
same, first about once a day, then every other hour before I swapped it.
Now, since I don't actually need wireless, I reanimated the older V2 model
where wireless already has died - but at least that one does not (or rarely
at least) drop out.

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