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What's the difference between these three forms of Restart?

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:43 pm
by gatekeeper
What's the difference between:-

1)Doing a Restart from within the router's GUI, ie. clicking on 'Restart' at bottom-right of GUI page?
2) Doing a power reboot, ie. turning off the power to the router using the pushbutton on the rear of it?
3) Doing a factory reset using the recessed microswitch on the rear of the router?

One obvious difference between (3) and the others is that in (3) all of the user's configuration settings get deleted.

But what's actually the difference between (1) and (2)?

Is it the case that all three will have a negative impact on the downstream and upstream speeds? No matter what the cause, if there's a disconnect of the line between the router and the DSLAM, will the DSLAM and router always negotiate a LOWER downstream and upstream speed - and then try, in time, to hopefully edge back to the original speeds? With VDSL, how long might that take?

As far as I can see, all three ultimately will initiate the sequence Power detect >> Attempt DSL sync >> Establish Internet-level connection, as played out by the indicators on the front of the router. But will all three restart methods then have identical stats?

Which one of these three forms of restart, if any, will give you the automatically-appearing EZSO setup again?

Re: What's the difference between these three forms of Restart?

Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2018 3:57 pm
by billion_fan
gatekeeper wrote: Thu Dec 20, 2018 2:43 pm What's the difference between:-

1)Doing a Restart from within the router's GUI, ie. clicking on 'Restart' at bottom-right of GUI page?
2) Doing a power reboot, ie. turning off the power to the router using the pushbutton on the rear of it?
3) Doing a factory reset using the recessed microswitch on the rear of the router?

One obvious difference between (3) and the others is that in (3) all of the user's configuration settings get deleted.

But what's actually the difference between (1) and (2)?

Is it the case that all three will have a negative impact on the downstream and upstream speeds? No matter what the cause, if there's a disconnect of the line between the router and the DSLAM, will the DSLAM and router always negotiate a LOWER downstream and upstream speed - and then try, in time, to hopefully edge back to the original speeds? With VDSL, how long might that take?

As far as I can see, all three ultimately will initiate the sequence Power detect >> Attempt DSL sync >> Establish Internet-level connection, as played out by the indicators on the front of the router. But will all three restart methods then have identical stats?

Which one of these three forms of restart, if any, will give you the automatically-appearing EZSO setup again?
1 and 2 will give you the same result, power up, sync, establish a PPP connection with your current settings loaded

If multiple line drops/PPP disconnections are recorded, DLM might take action as it thinks the line is unstable and lower your upstream/download speeds, with stability the speeds should return to normal, (the time it takes is up to DLM, when it thinks it can raise the speeds and stay stable)

Line stats can change depending on the time of day (when the sync has occurred) and line environment when the line syncs also on DLM (the device is built/desinged to stay on 24/7)

Resetting the device back to factory default settings either using the reset pin hole or through the web gui, will set the device back to factory default settings (EZSO setup again)

I would avoid restarting the device or dropping the DSL connection, otherwise DLM will take action and drop your speeds