Oh, joy.
Posted By Russ Emerson on April 1, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Rather suddenly yesterday, web sites became unreachable and my e-mail was inaccessible. My home office router, after [counting on fingers] eight or nine years of loyal service, is finally giving up the ghost. I find myself having to reboot it several times a day.
This isn’t a particularly awful thing for me, when I’m on my own time. But if the router flaps during work hours, it could be problematic. If my VPN connection to the office bounces, I lose any SSH sessions I have going, which, since I spend my time connected to big routers, could be a serious problem.
I’ve just ordered a replacement router. I’m sticking with Linksys. It should be here Friday.
I’ve been meaning to “upgrade” to a new router since I began thinking about my recent PC upgrade; I use the quotes because I don’t honestly expect a new router to perform as well, for as long, as this old one has done. Eight or nine years, always on except for the occasional power outage or office rebuild. There aren’t too many consumer-level products that can make a similar claim to longevity.
I may have to bypass the router and connect my work laptop directly to the cable modem tomorrow so that I don’t lose VPN connectivity to the corporate network. That will suck; I’m used to having a browser on my personal machine opened up to the Cisco website, where the manuals and other documentation is, while I do my actual job via the laptop.
Oh well.
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