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Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Why Support Tells You to Wait 10 Seconds Before Rebooting Your Router

lifehacker.com: We've all heard it before when troubleshooting a router: unplug your router, wait ten seconds, and plug it back in. More often than not, this fixes whatever problem we have. But why is that? Superuser user Phoshi has an explanation.

1 comment:

Christy D said...

Oh. So that's why that works. I've always kind of wondered why the LED's don't go out for so long. People (including myself) have this tendency to think that technology is instant, but electricity doesn't teleport. We like instant gratification, so those ten seconds are torture.