the midnight shut down

[Ann]

Does nobody else get this.  Bang on midnight every night everything stops.  Tonight I was winning at sudoku and there it goes, dead.. soooo annoying.  It's driving me nuts.. I think I'll get a drink..

Edit:  Maybe I'll change my name to Cinderella

[Inactive]

No problems here, in fact I made a post on here at just almost spot on midnight.

Never mind Cinders, I will take you to the ball.

[Simon]

Can't say I've noticed it myself, Ann.  I'm sure Rik will have some questions for you. 

[Glenn]

Ann

Do you lose the internet connection, or is it the PC shutting down?

Are there any scheduled tasks on the PC that run at at midnight, virus updates, MS patch installs etc?

Have you scanned for the usual things, spyware/virus's etc

[Rik]

Hi Ann

What Glenn said, but also does your router log any disconnection at that time. I wonder whether something is being turned off or on, eg heating, and causing a noise burst.

[Gary]

No problem with mine at midnight Ann, I would check all that has been stated above, I have been online up till 2am recently and have had no issues at midnight on forum or off browsing elsewhere

[Rik]

A very Norman post count, Gary.

[Rik]

Ann

An afterthought. You don't have anything configured in the router to only allow internet access at certain times do you? (Or possibly in a software firewall...)

[cavillas]

Ann

Maybe if your router has lease time of 24 hours it might shut down at that time.  My one has a lease time of 24 hours but doesn't shut down at the end of that time, I'm not sure if all routers work the same way over this issue though.  Just a thought really.

[Ann]

  for the suggestions.

I emailed IDNet about it and Simon has replied saying that he's heard of it before.  He suggests the router is time checking but a google search suggests that it might be refreshing the IP address.  I had let the router find the IP itself (as per IDNet's advice) but have now entered it myself along with the DNS server IPs and will see tonight if that stops it.    What's the betting I fall asleep at half past 11 tonight. 

[Rik]

What router is it, Ann?

[Inactive]

  What's the betting I fall asleep at half past 11 tonight. 

I will give you a prod at 11.55.

[Malc]

Could it be anything do do with IDNet switching from peak to off peak for downloading?

[Rik]

More likely the switch to Economy 7.

[Inactive]

More likely the switch to Economy 7.

My thoughts as well... on a serious note, that may be a possibility, but then, what do I know.. 

[Ann]

Router is a Netgear DG834G v2.  The firmware is up to date.  I looked in at the Netgear forums but couldn't make head nor tail of them.  I couldn't even work out which forum to ask the question so I sidled on out without being noticed.  

I don't think it's IDNet's doing.  Others have the same problem it seems so it's going to be the router but what the hell is economy 7? Fingers crossed for midnight tonight.

[Rik]

Hi Ann

Do an ipconfig /all, and see when your lease expires. I've had a coupled of Netgear but never experienced any issues around midnight.

Economy 7 is off-peak electricity, a seven hour span starting somewhere around midnight, currently 00:30 for me.

[Ann]

Lease expires .. 09 December 2007 09:09:32

What is the lease anyway and how do you make it longer or can't you?  Not that it's going to be the problem at that time.

I need a lesson on leasing please.

[Rik]

You don't have to worry about leasing, Ann, the computer and the router negotiate a period for which your machine IP address will last, the lease. It's renewed automatically, so you should never notice it happening. I was just curious to see if the time happened to be midnight.

[cavillas]

You don't have to worry about leasing, Ann, the computer and the router negotiate a period for which your machine IP address will last, the lease. It's renewed automatically, so you should never notice it happening. I was just curious to see if the time happened to be midnight.

I thought that as well.

[mogden]

Ann

I've heard of this too.

See if this helps!

http://forums.vnunet.com/thread.jspa?messageID=962656&tstart=0

[Ann]

Thanks Matt, I hadn't seen that thread.  Funnily enough I did see the thread linked to in one of the posts there.  It goes to another discussion on The Scream! (used to be a moderator on there.. ha!).  I will try the daylight hours ticking box tomorrow if what I've already done doesn't work tonight.  I shall be waiting with bated breath at midnight every night now.. LOL 

[Rik]

So, I was here with bated breath, Ann. Where were you?? 

[Gary]

A very Norman post count, Gary.

I noticed that Rik

[Gary]

So did it happen Ann?