Re: Sonicwall SOHO3 Connection Issues

On Apr 4, 4:01 pm, bz wrote:
> brnstrmrs wrote innews:9fae61dc-b4a6-408a-900b-4a0f31b2847b@c65g2000hsa.goog legroups.com:
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> > On Apr 3, 10:01 pm, Rick wrote:
> >> brnstrmrs wrote in news:ae8496a9-b10c-429d-97c6-
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> >> > On Mar 26, 12:03 pm, mak wrote:
> >> >> Dravidan wrote:
> >> >> > I recently acquired a Sonicwall SOHO3 from a friend with an intent
> >> >> > to set it up for my home office but I am having connection issues
> >> >> > I hope someone can help. It is loosing connection by itself after
> >> >> > few minutes (5-30 mins) even when no one is logged on to it. I
> >> >> > can't figure out what is causing it. I would like to get the log
> >> >> > to see what happened but because I have to power cycle the unit to
> >> >> > get it back running so the logs are lost.
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> >> >> you know that box is probably 4,5 years old, right?
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> >> > Yes. It is definitely older than 5 years.
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> >> Those SOHO3 Sonicwalls had some issues with flakey power adaptors that
> >> caused a lot of problems. It might not be a bad idea to try a
> >> replacement power adaptor to see if that clears up the problem. If I
> >> remember right, they used a 5VDC adaptor, but I don't remember what the
> >> current rating for it was.
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> >> --
> >> Rick Simon rsi...@cris.com
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> >> Include "spam(trap)key" somewhere in the
> >> body of any email to avoid spam filters.
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> > It bugs the heck out of me because my friend tested it in his office
> > and he had no issues so I am not sure if it is a power issue. Anyway,
> > It is a 5Volt, 2.4Amp/12W DC power adapter. I will see if I can place
> > it on a UPS or replace the adapter. I also played around with the
> > setting from auto to 100/full duplex to 100/half duplex but still same
> > problem while the router is in auto. One strange thing I notice is
> > that when ping from locally, once every five pings take twice as long
> > time as others. Any idea?
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> Ripple on the dc from the power supply.
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> We had a mini hub take down our entire building back in the 10baseT days,
> before we went to switches. A capacitor in the power supply had blown up.
> A computer using the mini hub kept getting partial packets and requesting
> resends. The flood of bad packets made the Ethernet unusable in the
> entire building.
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> --
> bz
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> please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an
> infinite set.
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I disconnected the wan port and ping the sonicwall from inside and it
went all night without interruption except the once every 5 pings took
twice as much time. What you say makes sense, if my ISP's router
keeps asking the sonicwall to resend the package then it would be a
problem. I am also going to try to flush the firmware on the device.