Curious event

[Rik]

For some reason, my 2700 re-booted itself (to judge by the logs and what I saw happen with the front panel lights) at 11:09, reconnecting at 3648 (3000 profile territory!), now some 800k higher than the Netgear could achieve.

I'll be interested to see if it remains stable at the higher speed.

[g7pkf]

Another 6 months and you might get higher



yes im at the big place in london again!!

[Rik]

That's cheating, Dean.

[g7pkf]

[Lance]

I find that sometimes my router will also reboot. I wonder if this is because it either hits a size limit on the logs (which, from memory, get cleared out on reboot), or because it thinks it can sync at a higher speed than it is currently at (in which case why not just restart the connection, the the whole unit!).

[Rik]

And that is gloating. 

[Rik]

I find that sometimes my router will also reboot. I wonder if this is because it either hits a size limit on the logs (which, from memory, get cleared out on reboot), or because it thinks it can sync at a higher speed than it is currently at (in which case why not just restart the connection, the the whole unit!).

You'd think it would just clear the logs, wouldn't you, Lance (it does clear them on re-boot)? Ditto the re-sync - but if it is doing that, it's the first router I have known to re-sync for 'good' reasons rather than bad, ie noise.

[Broadback]

I am rather confused by this router connection business.  If (as I do) I switch off my router along with my machine every night does that mean that my router will never reach maximum possible speed?

[Rik]

It shouldn't have any adverse effect. You'll be synching at the best time (assuming you turn it on in the morning) for maximum speed, and should avoid any overnight instability.

I prefer to leave my router running 24/7, but that's just because I'm an insomniac.

[Simon]

Good question, Broadback.  I have been trying to convince my cousin to leave her router switched on, as I was under the impression that turning on and off wasn't a good idea.

[Rik]

Repeated power cycling is not good for a router (or any other electronics), Simon, but powering it down at the end of the day is fine. I just am never sure when my day will end, so prefer to run 24/7.

[Lance]

I'm too lazy, so it's 24/7 for me too!

[Broadback]

OK, thanks, a more general question if I may.  Where can I find an easily comprehended tutorial on router matters? Such as the meanings of all the stats etc, what bearing they have on speed.  while reading many posts here I find I am more ignorant than I even realised.  I often do not even understand the questions, let alone the answers.

[Rik]

I don't know that there is a broad-based tutorial, tbh. I just lurked around places like ThinkBroadband, reading everything I could.

[Ted]

OK, thanks, a more general question if I may.  Where can I find an easily comprehended tutorial on router matters? Such as the meanings of all the stats etc, what bearing they have on speed.  while reading many posts here I find I am more ignorant than I even realised.  I often do not even understand the questions, let alone the answers.

Just bluff your way through like everybody else.

[Rik]

That too, Ted.

[Wingnutz]

Blind them with science or baffle them with bull@#@# !

[Rik]

I'm pure BSBB myself. 

[Rik]

I am wondering if I've discovered why the 2700 has such a stable noise margin normally. Below, I show the Routerstats output for late afternoon. My margin has fallen from 9db to 6db, with the odd excursion to 5db. I've never seen the 2700 show so much variation before. OTOH, to achieve the higher sync speed, it's used some of the higher frequencies it normally leaves well alone.

So, could it be that the 2700 is more stable because it is good at negotiating the frequencies when it syncs?

Just thinking aloud...

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[Den]

I never see the point in turning my router off at night. If I am syncing at a high speed, turning off and then back on again for no reason might mean I re-sync at lower speed, so I leave well alone. 

[merlin]

just after i got my first ever router, and had just joined "heaven on wires" (idnet of course)
i asked idnet techies about switching off at night,
and they said switch modems off if you like, but never routers, as sometimes they see this as a fault and lower the sync rate.

i do,nt understand it but they did !!!!

[MoHux]

I have tried both, switching off and leaving on.

Now I switch everything off at the end of the day, because I found that even though I slept, the router was subjected to external happenings overnight.  Meaning that some mornings I found settings had been adversely affected overnight.

I found that when switching off correctly, the settings were remembered, then continued where they left off at next switch-on.

[Simon]

How does one switch a router off 'correctly', Mo?  My cousin's is a Netgear, and there's no 'on/off' switch, so it's a question of powering off at the mains.  Can't see any other way of doing it. 

[MoHux]

So o o o .........   







Edit: I was thinking rather the powering down in the correct sequence as a whole Simon.
There is no on/off switch on my DLink DSL 524T either.   

[Simon]

Oh OK, yes that makes sense, Mo.    They are paranoid that someone will piggy back their connection if they leave the router switched on, even though they have WPA enabled.