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Golgamesh
join:2009-02-16
| Alice (France) reboots my router every evening I am with Alice (used to be Tiscali) in France. Recently I have noticed that my broadband wireless modem is rebooting the same time every evening. I had not noticed this before, and it is very inconvenient.
On raising the question with technical support I am told this is normal, because every 24 hours the modem gets assigned a new IP number; and that every other provider does the same. I cannot understand this because I have had broadband for several years now and have never noticed it.
I have had conflicting explanations for the timing. The first technical support guy suggested I could change the time by switching off my modem and switching it on at a different time, the implication being that at some time I switched it on at 10 p.m., from when the 24 hours runs. There is some logic to that, because we had a long power cut after the big storm, and electricity did get restored at about that time. BUT when I first installed the modem/router it was during the day, and I never noticed a regular reboot.
The second tech guy I rang said their equipment determined when my modem would reboot for a new IP address, after seeing how much traffic there was on it, and there was nothing I could do about it.
The purpose of reassigning an IP address is said to be for security. However friends I have talked to have never come across this.
Has anyone else come across this? I am afraid I do not trust Alice's tech guys very much on this. | |
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Rob
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| Re: Alice (France) reboots my router every evening Your router may be bad. Your router should be able to get a new IP when the lease is up without having to reboot. Alice has no control over your router and cannot force it to reboot.
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dvd536
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| Re: Alice (France) reboots my router every evening said by Rob  :Your router may be bad. Your router should be able to get a new IP when the lease is up without having to reboot. Alice has no control over your router and cannot force it to reboot. could be an integrated DSL modem / router combo therefore they *would* have access to it.
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| Golgamesh
join:2009-02-16
| It is a modem/router. On further inquiries it appears that for security reasons Alice insists that the IP address assigned to my router has to be changed every 24 hours. They are unable to specify when that change takes place. Presumably it was during the night, because I never noticed it. We had an electricity cut during the recent big storm here in SW France and the electricity resumed around 2200 hours. While that does indeed make sense, I first installed the router/modem during the day - so why didn't it reboot at the time I first installed the device? No answer from Alice of course.
Does this make sense? Do other countries do the same? | |
| | willemijns
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| Hi,
I'm French as u, I'm on the same ISP and i know the reason...
On France lot of ISP reboots every 24 hours to avoid you
own an fixed IP... this reboot does at exact time evey night
mine is 2am40 (+- 1 minute) it can happends on daylight i'm not sure... | |
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