On 23/07/14 12:21, Gordon Scott wrote:
>
> This is an aside to Adam's mail, but has proven useful to me.
>
> Some time back I had some persistent ADSL troubles, that eventually
> proved to be an unstable interface card in the BT box down the road.
>
> However .. during the troubleshooting phase one suggestion was to
> disconnect my router both from power and from the telephone line "for
> fifteen minutes". My initial reaction was "that's silly, the router
> will reset much quicker than that". The ISP's response was "yes it
> will, but it takes that long for our routers to knock down all of your
> route, then when you do reconnect it will set up the whole route again
> from scratch".
>
> I've periodically tried that since then if I have "odd" network problems
> that a local router reset doesn't fix. It isn't unusual for the fifteen
> minute trick to work.
>
> Gordon.
>
That sounds like it might be useful to know -- thanks.
cheers,
Chris
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