The reported times or the reporting of the times? Also odd to see two different reporting formats.

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Mine is: System Up-Time 343D 17H 46M 31S
Connection Time 343 Day(s) 17:47:51

What device is this for?

In reply to a post by 10forcash:

In reply to a post by adslmax:

Mine is: System Up-Time 343D 17H 46M 31S
Connection Time 343 Day(s) 17:47:51

How can your 'system up time' be less than your 'connection time'?

When my machine boots the internet connection occurs well in advance of the Windows startup sequence completing. Presumably the System up time starts at the end of the sequence.

Why does a reboot matter so long as the speed doesn't reduce as a result?

My Homehub 5a does this but the speed has been gently climbing with every reboot and has gone from 34 to 42 Mbps over a period of 3 months or so

BT Infinity 2
Asus DSL-AC68U
Continuous so far - only reboot when new firmware available (every 3/4 months or so)

I'm sure some people have reported these reboots taking place during downloads, and terminating them.

So why do BT have this feature? Do they know that the firmware code loses memory?

The Post Office supplied Zyxel AMG1302-T10B router I am using at the moment has a feature to set an automatic reboot after a number of seconds if you want, but it is optional.

No idea why, all I can assume is bad firmware known to cause issues if kept online for too long. I personally find it ridiculous the biggest UK ISP has this "feature."

They also push out firmware upgrades at silly hours e.g. my last one at 8:45PM and it took 25 minutes to come back online - I genuinely thought the router was broken.

Edited by ukhardy07 (Tue 01-Nov-16 10:31:38)

It's probably not a bug, but more a feature of when the different parts of the startup sequence are completed. From experience most router/modems appear to complete the line sync process fairly early on after powering up. If connection time is recorded from when line sync is achieved, then that might explain it as there are often several other stages that the router has to complete before being fully up, like initialiseing DHCP and other server functions, NTP calls or whatever else is encoded in the start sequence.

I'd also add it depends when connection means. It it's just sync, then that's one thing, but it it's all the other stuff, like authentication onto the network, getting an external IP address and so on.

A look through the event logs after a full startup might give a clue.

Hah. my connection bounced Monday morning. I dun got me another 1Mb/s of download

Kinda weird for a line that's been live for coming up on four years but this is the second bump I've had this year. I've gone from around 62Mb/s to around 69Mb/s.