Netgear dg834V2

JackCarver

JackCarver

JackCarver

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Hi all, i have installed this in a customer site, problem is once a day the connection drops and they have to reboot the router... Site is 300 miles away!

Now i have made a perl scrip on a local PC that pings a WAN address if 0 response it will telnet to router and reboot..

Now i have tested this with a ping request to 111.111.111.999 which obviously fails and the connection reboots.

But this morning i wake up and its dropped and been down for 2 hours! so the script has failed, thinking maybe the router has locked up or somthing?

I have flashed it with latest DG team firmware, i really want to add the job to Crontab on the router but cant for the life of me figure out how! I have goolged for days! Anybody have any idea how? this is the 4th modem we have tried onsite! Oh and BT say its customer equipment at Fault... Pretty Standard response...
 
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What other routers have you tried onsite? The V2 is over 5 years old...

Might be worth monitoring the local interface from the site to see if that's dropping pings could well the router itself is locking up / dying.

If you want to set this via crontab use something like 30 6 * * * root /sbin/reboot which will reboot the router every morning at 6.30.
 
Cheers mate,sorry i shoulda said i know how to put it in crontab on a linux box etc

But unsure how to edit the crontab table on this router...

3 other modems the same... i have another 5 sites with them on and they seem fine..
 
JackCarver said:
But unsure how to edit the crontab table on this router...

3 other modems the same... i have another 5 sites with them on and they seem fine..
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If it's running DGTeam it should be under the custom setup section -> Enable custom Cron table event script execution -> create / edit contrab.

Might be worth trying a newer router, or one that's more business orientated at this location?
 
For a small business, I would suggest something like a Draytek Vigor 2710, which is going to be solid.
 
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Yea id agree. not for this purpose though. There is only one PC on the LAN IIS Server. Its a separate monitoring system inside a business.

Thanks for your assistance though mate, once its backup ill check out the settings you mentioned.
 
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