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 <d...@wigm.uk> wrote: > On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 17:48:20 +0000, 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
