Good morning,
I am taking the liberty of writing because I encounter the same problem, that is to say restarts (sometimes freezes) of my Internet Box Plus. I switched to fiber around mid-April, and immediately experienced random reboots. At the beginning this happened to me about once a week, and lately since the new update almost every 24/48 hours. I tested the solutions proposed on this forum in vain, and I strongly suspect that the problem comes from an instability of the box.
I have the impression that we will have to wait for a new model of router in the hope of having a change.
Same at home… It’s been a month since I rebooted the box several times: 5-6 automatic ones and 2-3 that I did myself following a loss of Internet and TV.
I tried all the solutions I could find on this forum, resetting the box, checking the firmware, cables, dhcp but nothing worked. I wonder if this isn’t actually a hardware problem.
I point out that everything worked perfectly for several months with the new box and suddenly everything went into a tailspin without any modification on my part.
Do you have a solution? Should a replacement of the box be considered?
For several days, my internet box has been resetting itself and it seems that the problem is widespread since at the office located in another district of Geneva we experience the same untimely outages several times a day.
This is neither a problem with the fiber optic cable nor with the configuration of the boxes, everything has been checked by an IT specialist.
I am waiting for a position from Swisscom and above all a solution because it is becoming very complicated to work in these conditions.
Not quite but almost:
The hotline advised me to do a hard reset so that the updates take place (normally it’s automatic….).
Then if this continues, the Hotline explains to me that it may be a problem with the firmware of the box. And they tell me: if this is the case, too bad Sir, your box is no longer under warranty.
I adore!
What I put in I got several times, even when there were 600 Swisscom customers who no longer had anything functional. A telephone line had been flooded in Le Sentier and it took them 1 week to admit the problem and of course there was no apology and even less compensation.
On the other hand, they don’t forget us if we have a late bill.
I come back with good news.
While looking for a solution to the problem on the German part of the forum (thanks Google Translate), I came across a post which mentioned a problem with IPv6 which would be resolved for the future version 8 of the firmware.
It’s been a little over 11 days since I deactivated it and no restarts. I noticed on other forums that apparently several suffer from the same problem, I hope that they will read this post and resolve their outages/resets by deactivating IPv6 in the box options. In any case it seems that while waiting for a future firmware this is the solution.
ciao idoc
I saw in another identical subject that a guy had found the solution while waiting for the new firmware.
Try disabling IPv6 and it should work:
[https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Discussions-sur-les-routeurs/Internet-box-reboot/m-p/388884#M854](https://community.swisscom.ch/t5/Discussions-sur- les-routeurs/Internet-box-reboot/m-p/388884#M854)
tell us again if it helps or not
greetings
Hello everyone.,
This is a very interesting and intriguing observation, FM33.
Many thanks for reporting it here, and especially for your research!
As you say, to try by anyone who suffers from this problem. 😉
I would happily imagine it as being a good avenue to explore. “Well done!”
Good evening to you and all of you.
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Good morning,
Since I made this subject, I have not come back because my router always reboots but in a “bearable” way, i.e. once a day. I ended up letting Swisscom customer service down since they couldn’t solve the problem (I’m not blaming them, I can understand that it’s complicated) and after all 1 reboot per day is not death even if it sometimes happens badly.
But today I’m on the 3rd reboot between 4:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., so I came back to look here. So I’m going to try to disable IPv6 as FM33 suggests. It’s easy and costs nothing so you might as well give it a try.
Thanks for the tip in any case, I’ll come back and tell you it works for me. 🙂
Hello Tortue Ninchat, hello everyone.,
Yes, please tell us again your feedback after some testing time.
So a nice way to close “your” discussion thread yourself with the key to the solution in hand, hopefully 😉
Excellent evening to you and all of you.
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Hello, it’s still too early to say if deactivating IPV6 solves the problem but for 2 days I haven’t had any reboots. This problem has been there for months but it is very random, sometimes several days without anything and others 3, 4, 5 times a day.
But for now it’s still a good sign. 🙂
Thanks again for this tip.