FiOS Router Issues and Non-Technical Landlords

thanksajdotcom

So I've got an issue that I'm try to resolve. Yes, my network piggybacks off my landlord's FiOS router. The issue is that he says he never once had an issue with his router not working. This morning I was unable to access anything on my network, and I know it's not my equipment. This has always meant the FiOS router needs to be rebooted.

I sent him a text, asking him to reboot it when he woke up. Well, my text woke him up. He's all upset because he said there were never issues until I arrived and that he shouldn't have to reboot the router. I've had these kind of issues before with Verizon equipment. I don't know if it's incapable of handling the traffic it's supposed to be able to deliver, but I'm thinking that the easiest way to address this is a scheduled task in the router to make it reboot every night at 4 or 5AM.

Until I dropped the FiOS router in Texas, I'd run into similar issues. I'm wondering if over the course of a few days if the cache gets overloaded, and then the router is online, but it can't process any traffic. A reboot always solves the problem. Yes, I generate a fair amount of traffic, whereas his traffic needs are just Playstation Network, a few Skype calls a month, and general web browsing.

Does anyone know off-hand if you can schedule tasks in a FiOS router? I believe you can but I won't know for sure until I get another look at it.

Thanks,
A.J.

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@Aaron-Studer said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Does anyone know off-hand if you can schedule tasks in a FiOS router? I believe you can but I won't know for sure until I get another look at it.

Thanks,
A.J.

If you would have just posted this, no one would argue TOS with you.

Please don't even bring it up. The point of the comment was I didn't want it to even be brought up.

Dashrender

@thanksajdotcom said:

@Aaron-Studer said:

@thanksajdotcom said:

Does anyone know off-hand if you can schedule tasks in a FiOS router? I believe you can but I won't know for sure until I get another look at it.

Thanks,
A.J.

If you would have just posted this, no one would argue TOS with you.

Please don't even bring it up. The point of the comment was I didn't want it to even be brought up.

then edit your first post down to Aaron's suggestion

coliver

http://www.howtogeek.com/206620/how-to-automatically-reboot-your-router-the-geeky-way/

Not sure if you've seen this?

thanksajdotcom

@coliver said:

http://www.howtogeek.com/206620/how-to-automatically-reboot-your-router-the-geeky-way/

Not sure if you've seen this?

That will work perfectly.

gjacobse

@coliver said:

http://www.howtogeek.com/206620/how-to-automatically-reboot-your-router-the-geeky-way/

Not sure if you've seen this?

That is a sweet little script..

thanksajdotcom

@g.jacobse said:

@coliver said:

http://www.howtogeek.com/206620/how-to-automatically-reboot-your-router-the-geeky-way/

Not sure if you've seen this?

That is a sweet little script..

Yeah. I've used something similar to this before, but never as a cronjob or scheduled task. I can set this up on my Linux servers and it'll work quite well.

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It could be AT&T controlling your connection either from ya'll using too much data from a home connection or hosting stuff.

@thanksajdotcom said:

wondering if over the course of a few days if the cache gets overloaded, and then the router is online, but it can't process any traffic.

What Cache?

coliver

@thecreativeone91 said:

It could be AT&T controlling your connection either from ya'll using too much data from a home connection or hosting stuff.

I don't know, I've heard this complaint from a lot of people on FiOS. It just seems they are using a really terrible router/modem combo thing.

@coliver said:

@thecreativeone91 said:

It could be AT&T controlling your connection either from ya'll using too much data from a home connection or hosting stuff.

I don't know, I've heard this complaint from a lot of people on FiOS. It just seems they are using a really terrible router/modem combo thing.

Probably most are

JaredBusch

@thecreativeone91 said:

What Cache?

A lot of crappy routers cannot handle the simultaneous connection load of torrents over days and need to be rebooted to clear their connection cache.

Well Dont torrent sounds like your anwser then.

I would....get your own internet. fixed. close thread plz.

You could always call AT&T and ask them why there connection doesn't work well when you illegally download torrents. Also could ask them why sharing connections between two people isn't working well. They'll be glad to set you up with another account or even a businesses connection. Heck since its FiOS they probably have a way of doing two connections over a single fiber drop .

Dashrender

@thecreativeone91 said:

You could always call AT&T and ask them why there connection doesn't work well when you illegally download torrents. Also could ask them why sharing connections between two people isn't working well. They'll be glad to set you up with another account or even a businesses connection. Heck since its FiOS they probably have a way of doing two connections over a single fiber drop .

Why does torrenting have to be illegal? Just answer the question, not an answer in relation to AJ.

JaredBusch

Notes:

FiOS is Verizon not AT&T.
Crappy routers have nothing to do with the carrier.

@JaredBusch said:

Notes:

FiOS is Verizon not AT&T.

Crappy routers have nothing to do with the carrier.

That's what I thought. But, He's said they had an AT&T connection before.