N66U daily reboot- wear and tear?

[Deleted member 27741]

My first foray into scripts on my N66U was set a daily reboot. I was wondering about your thoughts on potential wear and tear on the router from a daily reboot?

I'm not all excited about it, I just find that conversations about this kind of stuff usually teach me something about the hardware. Next I think I will attempt moving the log file to a usb!

 

[bill1228]

Question. Why do you want to boot daily? My 66U is up for weeks at a time without issues.
--bill

 

[cofetym]

I remember this being discussed recently.

 

[sm00thpapa]

I reboot my 4 to 10 times a day for the hell of it. 3 years and still kicking. Where do people come up with these myths?

 

[BreakingDad]

Why would you want to reboot everyday? I aspire to almost never reboot. I've now been running my RT-N66U for about 30 days with latest firmware and no problems at all. I fixed my 360 problems by using advise of this site so all good now. That's with 20 devices. I don't understand why you would want to reboot? Does your network have a problem reboot solves? If so one of your settings somewhere must be incorrect.

 

[Deleted member 27741]

Informative answers, guys!

I reboot because I am often in a position where I am RDP connecting to a computer at my home while away. A daily reboot clears up issues that I am not physically there to take care of.

 

[Ford Prefect]

...interesting concept....not uncommon for many people to just clear the symptom but not the cause

As to the initial question....

I'd gather you will "reboot" by powercycling the router's PSU (as a soft reset/reboot might fail to happen/occur for the same "issues").

In that case, I'd indeed suspect some wear&tear to occur to the gear, compared to a soft-reset.

 

[sm00thpapa]

Belkin Self Healing is a reboot every 24 hours. So reboot away.

 

[wh7qq]

Belkin may need this. Asus does not. Mine (RT-N66U) has been up for 80 days now with no problems. OTH, a soft reboot should not be a problem but a power cycling reboot could include some spikes, thermal cycling, etc. In any case, the available evidence does not convince either way.

 

[KGB7]

Do you keep your tv on 24/7, 365?

What about the microwave? Does it always stay on?

 

[DrTeeth]

This thread is like discussing how many angels can fit on a pin head. Philosophical and pointless. There are so many other things to worry about in life that any wear from rebooting a router should be waaay at the bottom of somebody's list.

 

[KGB7]

This thread is like discussing how many angels can fit on a pin head.

Its 5... right?

 

[sm00thpapa]

Reboot away people nothing to worry about.

 

[Deleted member 27741]

Hahaha... man. Sorry but a lot of haters here? The arrogance, the sarcasm... Makes me wish I could lock this thread. Clearly it is going nowhere.

I was hoping someone might have some actual information about the hardware and the potential for wear and tear caused by daily reboots but alas, snarky answers and "you must be doing it wrong" are pretty much it. Why bump a thread with this drivel?

Thanks smoothpapa for an attempt at a reasonable answer.

I apologize to anyone that has the misfortune to wonder the same thing and run into this troll fest of a thread.

 

[sm00thpapa]

I have an old WRT54GL that I have ran DD-WRT and Tomato firmware. I have done maybe over 1000 hard reboots and normal reboots. 10 years and the router is still kicking. Honestly I have never heard anyone have a router fail due to over rebooting it. Over on the DD-WRT forum there are many threads about this. Good luck.

 

[jim769]

I have an old WRT54GL that I have ran DD-WRT and Tomato firmware. I have done maybe over 1000 hard reboots and normal reboots. 10 years and the router is still kicking. Honestly I have never heard anyone have a router fail due to over rebooting it. Over on the DD-WRT forum there are many threads about this. Good luck.

True but depending how your rebooting example if you reboot using the little switch on the router you could run into switch failure in time. There has already been threads saying there on off switches have failed in the off position. My 68U switch feels cheap and i always worry its going to fail its felt this way since it was new back in Feb.

 

[Deleted member 27741]

I also have a wrt54g that I (now) reboot every day, it is running in client bridge mode which has proved to be a bit buggy so a reboot daily keeps it doing its job.

It has been working fine for over 5 years. It is obviously well-equipped to handle it.

I assume the N66U can handle it as well, but I know nothing (other than basic stats) about the real life longevity of the actual hardware. Still don't!

Sometimes I like to know stuff just because I'm nerdy. Does it matter that my SSD will be able to write 20 GB a day for 50 years and be fine? No. But the nerd in me still likes to know such things because I find it interesting.

 

[KGB7]

Hahaha... man. Sorry but a lot of haters here? The arrogance, the sarcasm... Makes me wish I could lock this thread. Clearly it is going nowhere.

I was hoping someone might have some actual information about the hardware and the potential for wear and tear caused by daily reboots but alas, snarky answers and "you must be doing it wrong" are pretty much it. Why bump a thread with this drivel?

Thanks smoothpapa for an attempt at a reasonable answer.

I apologize to anyone that has the misfortune to wonder the same thing and run into this troll fest of a thread.

You didn't like the answers, so its cool to call people haters and trolls?? We argue, we joke and we constantly test one another. But we don't hate or troll.

This forum might not be for you dude.

 

[Deleted member 27741]

I did think of a potential wear point to rebooting often. Doesn't apply to the N66U as the rmerlin firmware currently writes syslog to ram, but maybe it does apply to the A68U? Rebooting all the time could mean a lot of writes to the flash.

 

[KGB7]

I did think of a potential wear point to rebooting often. Doesn't apply to the N66U as the rmerlin firmware currently writes syslog to ram, but maybe it does apply to the A68U? Rebooting all the time could mean a lot of writes to the flash.

Merlin has stated that only jffs partition is prone to wear and tear if used for saving/writing logs to it, thus external storage is recommended.

Everything else is just like any electronic hardware.

Edit.
My phone won't let.me paste the link.
So google Jffs Asus router, second link from the top.