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Hi<br />
I often get called by customers because of slow access, be it within a LAN or with their internet access.<br />
Generally the first thing I do, after analyzing the situation, is to reboot the switch or ADSL modem.<br />
More often than not this fixes things.<br />
My question is, why do these two types of devices in particular require a reboot.<br />
Is it memory saturation ? <br />
Cheap and therefore bad quality ?<br />
If this is such a necessity, why didn't the manufacturers include the possibility of scheduling a reboot ?<br />
Is there a way to automate, even remotely, this reboot ?<br />
I've looked at timer power adapters, but none can be programmed beyond one week.<br />
Worst case I could program the devices to reboot every Sunday morning, early enough to be discreet.<br />
Any ideas ?<br />
Thanks<br />
Yann
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Hi
I often get called by customers because of slow access, be it within a LAN or with their internet access.
Generally the first thing I do, after analyzing the situation, is to reboot the switch or ADSL modem.
More often than not this fixes things.
My question is, why do these two types of devices in particular require a reboot.
Is it memory saturation ? 
Cheap and therefore bad quality ?
If this is such a necessity, why didn't the manufacturers include the possibility of scheduling a reboot ?
Is there a way to automate, even remotely, this reboot ?
I've looked at timer power adapters, but none can be programmed beyond one week.
Worst case I could program the devices to reboot every Sunday morning, early enough to be discreet.
Any ideas ?
Thanks
Yann

Rebooting modems and switches

Hardware includes cell phones and other digital living devices, tablets, computers, servers, peripherals and components, printers and scanners, gaming consoles, networking hardware such as routers, hubs, switches and modems, storage devices and security equipment such as firewalls and other appliances.

Hardware

A switch is a device that filters and forwards packets of data between LAN segments. Switches operate at the data link layer or the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Reference Model and therefore support any packet protocol. LANs that use switches to join segments are called switched LANs or, in the case of Ethernet networks, switched Ethernet LANs. A hub is a connection point for devices in a network. Hubs are commonly used to connect segments of a LAN. A hub contains multiple ports; when a packet arrives at one port, it is copied to the other ports so that all segments of the LAN can see all packets.

Switches / Hubs

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