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I have a wireless ADSL router for my home network. Lately (and I don't remember when this started), the router has started crashing & rebooting every half hour. Exactly. At hh:03 and hh:33. No clue as to why this is, but it is totally predictable.

Some clues from watching the lights on the panel: The following LEDs are on the box:

  • Power
  • SYS
  • Wireless
  • Link/Act
  • SyncMode
  • LAN 1-4
  • ADSL
  • Internet

In normal, functioning mode, all the LEDs are on solidly, except for the LAN ports (I only use wireless) and the "Wireless" light, which flickers.

At hh:03 and hh:33, the following happens:

  1. The "Link/Act" (and SyncMode?) LED starts flashing
  2. After a minute or so, the 4 LAN LEDs all flash on and off.
  3. Then the ADSL and Internet LEDs switch off, and it looks like the reconnection process starts again, with first ADSL, then Internet lighting up again.

I tried videoing the lights so I could record the sequence of events more accurately, but the light didn't work out so well...

Any ideas where to start with this?

EDIT: Here's a screen shot of my config. Does this tell us anything useful?

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  • Which router? Did you try a complete reset?
    – Karan
    Jan 23, 2013 at 17:07
  • @Karan - it's an Israeli product: PowerNet PAR-720G. Couldn't find any English documentation! But the router's web page is in English.
    – Shaul Behr
    Jan 23, 2013 at 17:10
  • Is it possible that you accidentally enabled scheduled reboots on the router? Jan 23, 2013 at 17:12
  • @Breakthrough Do you think there would be such a setting? I went looking through the router config, but couldn't find any such thing. Why would there be such a setting, anyway?
    – Shaul Behr
    Jan 23, 2013 at 17:20
  • Yes, among others, Netgear has a scheduled reboot, which was a convenient way of clearing out router table and memory buffer issues to prevent router lockup. Jan 23, 2013 at 17:29

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In the end it was a fault with the router. I took it back to my internet provider and they happily swapped it...

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