Posted on 06/02/2025 4:49:50 PM PDT by Bobbyvotes
I have been using this TP-Link router for 9 years. In the beginning years, it ran without any problems or freezes. Last 6 months, it froze once every day like clockwork. Every morning I had to reboot by unplugging and plugging power. Usually it only froze once every day. On rare occasions it froze twice in a day but that was rare. I was getting ready to buy a new one thinking it is just getting old..
But.... Strangely, during last two weeks it has not frozen or crashed even once! Nothing has changed. Same PC's and phones and security cameras in place for ever. Every morning I check if wi-fi is on, and to my surprise it is running. I am totally confused. I am guessing something changed by Xfinity.
haven’t read the comments- but if it hasn’t been suggested yet, check for dust (unplugged)- get can of compressed air and blow it out- might just be dying though- heat over time destroys things-
Router is the distribution point for wi-fi. When router freezes, won’t matter if hard wired or wireless.
LOL- Don’t blame him ha!
My sister and hubby found that FBI thing on a list of available networks when they were traveling once. 😁
I think I changed my internet plan and about the same time router stopped freezing. Coincidence?
My routers kept dying at five years, so I just rent one from Comcast.
ah ok- glad it’s working- ours is quite old too- no problems- yet anyway
BINGO!!Thanks.
I’ve two TP-Link routers, and I reboot them about once every couple of weeks.
These latest two are less than a year old, but it was always the same for the many earlier ones I’ve had...
Never divorce what is working :)
doomtrooper99 also thinks so ... :)
NSA finally uploaded their spyware?
I really do not mind reboots since it is just unplug and plug and wait 2 minutes to finish reboot. I was just confused why router stopped freezing. I am almost sure now it is the change in internet promotion plan I signed up for with Xfinity.
my spare dell laptop tossed to me during a “restructuring” as a goodwill token weighs like a small boat anchor but now runs
Ubuntu Linux and has given me a decade of prototyping/pretesting ideas for solving customer issues and upgrading my own capabilities. Old Iron can be useful.
Capacitors in old electronics slowly die over time. They keep voltage spikes and other noise from propagating on the power bus. When they age, they stop doing their job.
Evidence Lab is pretty good for protective naming. Scared my boy when his hand-me-down car still had it in the wifi list, thought he might be driving a crime scene.
It heard you threaten it and corrected its behavior.
LOL...now that’s a funny story!
“...I can see you is logged on to my router.”
Correct grammar is “...I can see you ARE logged on to my router.” Now that you caught me, what are you going to do about it?
Lol! YES on “Unobtrusive Van”! 😎
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