Thanks. Fixed.

My HH4 used to re-boot on a 4 week cycle. It has now moved to a 14day cycle without any apparent firmware change. which leads me to assume that either the firmware is being updated without a version number change or the reboot command is issued externally.
anyone any thoughts?

I've only observed a 14 day reboot cycle on my relative's HH4. That's going back about 18 months.

The Hub reboots by internal command (I have tested exhaustively and conclusively on several units since around March 2014). I've only ever seen a 14 day cycle.

It would be good if we could stop it rebooting that much. My old netgear dg834gt with custom firmware never rebooted like this. Your right though, the amount of remote commands that seem to be operating I sometimes wonder if BT arent making their network more unstable than it could be, sending all these commands from the center out to everyone.

In reply to a post by bowdon:

Your right though, the amount of remote commands that seem to be operating I sometimes wonder if BT arent making their network more unstable than it could be, sending all these commands from the center out to everyone.

vimto_girl just stated these aren't remote commands.

Sorry, I meant the router itself triggers the reboot (you can put the Hub on the moon, power it up, and it would still reboot every 14 days).

This must be by design (of the HW manufacturer or BT), presumably they think it a good idea to clear the cobwebs at the expense of a reboot.

The reboots can't make BT's network unstable, nor can remote management sessions which in my testing do not automatically trigger a reboot on the Hub. If you're worried DLM may incorrectly interpret the 14 day reboots and intervene (I highly doubt it myself) then you can always use an external modem. If you don't like the router itself rebooting, then the only solution I know of is to use your own unfortunately.

Oh right. I was thinking that the OpenRG command that makes the reboot was triggered by a remote command, and that people who use the Hubs on other ISP's don't get the reboot?

Not the case.

Well I got the following this morning and yes just under the 14 days, been a while since we have had the connection up for the full 2 weeks due to faulty copper wires that BT refuses to replace.

(WAN LOGS)
05:16:33, 23 Jan. (1068747.900000) PPPoA is down after 17810 minutes uptime [Disconnected]

We never lost sync to the exchange just the connection to BT.

(Helpdesk Section)
5. ADSL uptime: 13 days, 07:19:41

(Connection Information)
Connection time: 0 days, 22:29:57

So this could be done by either the HH4 automatically or within the exchange by BT or the ISP remotely to make the HH4 as stable as possible.

But yeah everything needs to be rebooted now and then, but I think every 2 weeks is a bit harsh.

Paul