Re:I'll tell you why ... (Score 1)

I set my WRT54GL 1.1 Tomoto to reboot every night at 2AM. I also reboot myself every night by sleeping. I have an uptime of around 66% -- that's how long I'm not sleeping every day. When I'm sleeping I don't mind that my router takes a 49-second reboot siesta every night. My router has an up time of 99.94% based on that single daily reboot. Is that so bad? Every morning I know that my router sneezed -- but so what? It /never/ sneezes unless I tell it to. Planned down-time is a damn sight better than unplanned downtime. I'm not sure that the Internet can do much better than 99.94% daily uptime. Every day I have to reload at least one web page -- and I have to do that manually! A $69 router that works with Tomato/dd-wrt firmware as if it were a $800 router? It's amazing that it works at all at that price point. I don't mind a planned reboot. I suppose I could try a weekly reboot, or monthly. The point is that I don't have to touch the damn thing. I plan for a 49 second outage, and it doesn't hurt at all.