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Why *does* powercycling work?

Date: 2006-05-10 01:51 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] rachelkachel
I always assumed it was basically shutting the thing down and restarting it. But I don't really know.

Date: 2006-05-10 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wodhaund.livejournal.com
I never thought about that. *google is my friend!*

Aha!

Apparently, powercycling forces the connection to refresh/reset the username and password. Sort of a logging out and logging back in thing, I guess. According to one FAQ, you should powercycle any time you upgrade or downgrade connection speed, or change the number of computers on a connection. It's basically the equivalent of rebooting after installing new software, to ensure that everything works.

*It makes more sense to me now, at least, hopefully to you, too?*

Date: 2006-05-10 01:51 am (UTC)
rachelkachel: (Default)
From: [personal profile] rachelkachel
I always assumed it was basically shutting the thing down and restarting it. But I don't really know.

Date: 2006-05-10 02:29 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wodhaund.livejournal.com
I never thought about that. *google is my friend!*

Aha!

Apparently, powercycling forces the connection to refresh/reset the username and password. Sort of a logging out and logging back in thing, I guess. According to one FAQ, you should powercycle any time you upgrade or downgrade connection speed, or change the number of computers on a connection. It's basically the equivalent of rebooting after installing new software, to ensure that everything works.

*It makes more sense to me now, at least, hopefully to you, too?*

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