If we wanted to automatically reboot our radios once a week, should we do it with a GitHub script on the radio or do you know of a better way? We're on a classic small WISP outfit (2-man operation, maybe 100 homes) in the Santa Cruz mountains, where, whenever we call for technical support, they *always* tell us to reboot the radio - where - shockingly - often - the performance goes up (don't ask me why or how - it just does). So let's not argue the fact that our WISP Internet speeds are better (for whatever reason) after we reboot our rooftop radios (which most of you would call a "modem" but we call them transceivers, or just radios, for short). Let's just ask the question. If we wanted to automatically reboot our radios once a week, can we do it with a GitHub script on the radio or do you know of a better way? For example, how does this GitHub script look to you Linux coders like Marek Novotny and William Unruh?

I am of the simple-minded, low-tech approach school. Does "rebooting" consist of some sort of power-down-power-up? If so, get a timer that shuts off power at some specific time each week for some specified period of time. This one will do nicely. 30A should be able to handle the load in any case. Set it for 3:00 am of a Tuesday night and see how it goes. Unless some of your customers are running SETI, they should never know. Peter Wieck Melrose Park, PA

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Rebooting radio in Santa Cruz mountains once a week via GitHub script?

Nov 14, 2017 22 Replies

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Neill Massello 8 years ago

southern half of the lower 48.

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Jeff Liebermann 8 years ago

Early 2018, NOAA Says" Of course, the government (NOAA) is always right. Grumble...

Jeff Liebermann jeffl@cruzio.com 150 Felker St #D http://www.LearnByDestroying.com Santa Cruz CA 95060 http://802.11junk.com Skype: JeffLiebermann AE6KS 831-336-2558

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Johann Beretta 8 years ago

A Netonix switch. Single best investment I made for my WISP.

I set them to ping a device on the opposite tower (in a PtP link) so that if the radio (on this side) hangs (but still responds to pings) it won't fool the watchdog into thinking everything is fine. The monitored device must actually pass traffic so that a ping packet can travel to the opposite side, be answered, and then return to the Netonix, thereby resetting the periodic timer.

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