> Once a month for the past 4-5 months my D7000 will drop internet
> connection. [...]
I see occasional DSL disconnects on mine, but probably less often
than 1/month. When mine disconnects, everything on the LAN works, but
ADVANCED > ADVANCED Home > Connection Status shows not connected.
> [...] Why is this happening? [...]
I assume that the firmware is defective in yet another way.
> [...] I have the latest firmware as well now.
An actual version number would be more helpful than your opinion of
what "the latest" is "now". Mine is currently "V1.0.1.64_1.0.1".
I can't tolerate this kind of unreliability, so I've arranged a batch
job which uses Wget periodically (10 minutes) to attempt to download a
web page from my ISP's site. If that fails three times consecutively
(30 seconds between tries), it declares a disaster, sends me an e-mail
message (locally), and then resets the router by using NTE to enable its
Telnet interface, and Kermit to log in and send a "reboot" command.
http://antinode.info/nte
http://kermitproject.org
A week or so ago, I finally hit a Popeye moment, and put in the time
to make this work. In the past few days, it's been triggered once, but
I'm not sure if that was a problem with the D7000 or the IPS's web
server. I may add another test or two to reduce the dependence on the
ISP's server. Perhaps "ping 8.8.8.8".
None of this should be needed, of course. With BASIC > Internet :
Connection Mode : Always On, the D7000 itself should be attempting to
reconnect, unless I tell it not to. (Which part of "Always On" was
unclear?) In principle, one could arrange a Connect command instead of
a (brutal) "reboot", but, in this case, I chose simple over clever (and
more susceptible to firmware changes).
