Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.
I'm reminded of a wireless NAS-cum-router I had some years back - possibly Belkin, I don't recall exactly - which brazenly featured a setting in its config that was a toggle labelled 'Self Healing'. The docs stated quite unashamedly that the thing might hang up from time to time, and if you set the toggle then it would do a daily reboot - an automated turn-it-off-and-on-again :-/ best regards, 웃 Victor Churchill, Netley Abbey, Southampton On Fri, 12 Mar 2021 at 00:12, Patrick Wigmore wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, CA Wills wrote: > > To my mind that means that the router must have had an > > upgrade remotely. > > To my mind it seems more likely that router's Wi-Fi hardware, firmware > or software has always contained the possibility of getting stuck in a > partially non-working state sometimes, and rebooting can get it out of > that state. > > We had an old Belkin router that did that sometimes, and it usually > only affected a subset of the connected devices. After rebooting, it > could go for weeks or months before it happened again. That thing > never got any updates, which was probably half the problem. > > Patrick > > -- > Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 > Check to whom you are replying > Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk > New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk > -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, CA Wills wrote: > To my mind that means that the router must have had an > upgrade remotely. To my mind it seems more likely that router's Wi-Fi hardware, firmware or software has always contained the possibility of getting stuck in a partially non-working state sometimes, and rebooting can get it out of that state. We had an old Belkin router that did that sometimes, and it usually only affected a subset of the connected devices. After rebooting, it could go for weeks or months before it happened again. That thing never got any updates, which was probably half the problem. Patrick -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.
On 11/03/2021 17:52, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, ci...@cewland.uk said: Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time again; or am I wrong in thinking it's their fault? I think you're wrong in thinking that TalkTalk will care in the sligtest, to be honest. TalkTalk have a deserved poor reputation; my advice (harsh, but I'd like to think fair): either put up with it or change ISP. I haven't had any problems since I stopped using the SagemCom router and reverted to the D-link one. I can't see any difference between them in terms of performance except for this problem with the Sagemcom one. Peter -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
Re: [Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +, ci...@cewland.uk said: > Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time > again; or am I wrong in thinking it's their fault? I think you're wrong in thinking that TalkTalk will care in the sligtest, to be honest. TalkTalk have a deserved poor reputation; my advice (harsh, but I'd like to think fair): either put up with it or change ISP. -- Linux Tips: https://www.tiger-computing.co.uk/category/techtips/ -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.
Hi All Further to my email earlier I've reset the router gateway and now have connection! To my mind that means that the router must have had an upgrade remotely. Why it should only affect my laptop I don't know. Thinking of reporting this to Talktalk if it happens in 2 weeks time again; or am I wrong in thinking it's their fault? -- -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
[Dorset] Failure of wireless connections again.
Hi all This is strange; as reported some while ago I had problems with my wireless connection to Router. A complete reset of the router and Thuderbird cured the problem: for a while! I have noticed that the problem reoccurs at 2 weekly instances and is usually on first start Thursday morning. This happened twice before last being 2 weeks ago, reset router and all fine. This morning it happened again, on wifi connection. Connected by Ethernet and all OK. (Census completed!) The Tablet has been working so it's only between my laptop and router; will reset router later to see if that fixes it again (for now). As far as I know no updates have ben made to either equipment unless the router was done remotely overnight. Any suggestions? May be it's time to get another router and ditch the supplied one (TalkTalk Super WiFi router). x -- -- Next meeting: Online, Jitsi, Tuesday, 2021-04-06 20:00 Check to whom you are replying Meetings, mailing list, IRC, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk New thread, don't hijack: mailto:dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk
