Re:The curse of being good in IT
by than3 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @06:36AM
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That's very common, do you know the general why?
Usually the power brick is poorly isolated and/or you have dirty electricity, it results in errors on an ongoing basis that get logged to the small amount of onboard memory. (not usually a circular buffer.)
When the errors have sufficient volume the memory fills up, and it stops working at resource exhaustion.
In a real pinch, I've resolved this in some of the more milder cases by simply using one of those walmart plug timers that turns off for a few minutes in the morning when everyone is asleep.
Re:The curse of being good in IT
by hot_gril on Saturday April 15, 2023 @12:02PM
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Well, at least they were on UPS and got power conditioning that way. But there's also just crappy programming. It's not only ISP-provided stuff, it's cheap home routers in general. I don't trust them.
Usually the power brick is poorly isolated and/or you have dirty electricity, it results in errors on an ongoing basis that get logged to the small amount of onboard memory. (not usually a circular buffer.)
When the errors have sufficient volume the memory fills up, and it stops working at resource exhaustion.
In a real pinch, I've resolved this in some of the more milder cases by simply using one of those walmart plug timers that turns off for a few minutes in the morning when everyone is asleep.