Re: Anyone else seen this.
The Natural Philosopher <[email protected]>
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On 04/07/2026 23:19, jkn wrote: >> And.. change the mostly useless power supply Capacitors!.. > > Is this actually true, specifically referring to Draytek routers? Or > just to Set Top Boxen (in which case I probably agree) > No. And in fact mostly today capacitors are not as prone to failure as they once were. There was a period where bad chemistry was taking out millions of them. They have all gone > I have previously looked for reports of such problems with Draytek kit, > and found none. I also took a look inside my previous Draytek router > (when I was getting ADSL issues, see uk.d-i-y thread passim) and all the > caps looked good (visual only check, I agree) The Draytek self-reboot is well documented. PSU degradation or firmware bit rot seems the most common cause I have re-flashed the firmware and it has stayed up since. -- All political activity makes complete sense once the proposition that all government is basically a self-legalising protection racket, is fully understood.