Hey TE members,
I was just curious, how often do you reboot or restart your WiFi routers, and what is the uptime?
These below routers have been rock solid for me with excellent WiFi performance.
Both running on OpenWRT
Below is my Primary router which manges the DNS and DHCP for my Home network
Flint 2 (GL-MT6000)
This is my Access Point
Xiaomi Mi Router 4A Gigabit Edition
Switch it off every night. Don’t like bathing in EM waves.
(Since I live in an apartment, it is prob no use. There are about two dozen APs visible any time of the day. But I am paranoid)
Asus AX3000 : merlin firmware.
Merlin seems to be more stable than stock. I don’t use any of Merlin’s additional features except its better stability.
Similar experience for me. Openwrt was rock solid. Just that it sucks when we need to upgrade from one version to another and retain all packages, etc.
Maybe manually did 2-3 times in 10yrs 
And any firmware update that automatically reboots it.
For Wi-Fi, I do a forced reboot everyday at 0 GMT.
I might restart router but my aps never need a reboot.
I had scheduled daily to reboot the router at 4am in the morning but been a year I manually reboot it once a week or so whenever I feel the speeds suck!
I have scheduled daily reboot at 3 am everyday. Of course this is after ignoring manual reboots when i troubleshoot
To all the rebooters, “Why?”
In my case it’s because I have craptacular xiaomi access points and random dlink/linksys that hangs intermittently (see it’s been 8 years and I still don’t care to know what it brand it is).
Maybe it’s uncessary. But what if a rogue device was burning through your FUP? I assume a reboot would break the connection and it’ll reconnect to something else or not at all.
What if you have neighbours who started a torrent while connected to you so rebooting causes them to reconnect to their own wifi, yeah?
I need better network security.
Is there even a need to restart routers unless it’s causing some issues?
I remember I used to reboot 5 6 years ago so I could get the updated fup from Airtel
pfsense -
TP-link really changed the game for consumer routers. They have been so stable for me and others over the years compared to D-link, netgear, etc.
1 reboot every day 15mins before work, reduces chance of issue from Airtel provided router. That router sometimes randomly stops working for a device.
I don’t do it on weekends until there is some issue.
I have always done this though, previously with mtnl. No downsides, i dont have servers running.
Mine is scheduled to restart at 3AM every Sunday.
Remote routers - setup to restart one a week
If router itself doesn’t support it then through an external cron job
At home, reboot as needed.. fairly rare though. Longest uptime I have seen is about a year (opnsense)
Currently at a month or so after I recently moved outage backup for all systems to a dc-dc lifepo4 backup
3am everyday, new IP address, feels secure,
Same way phone goes into Power saving mode, switches off every thing except Mobile network. I have good signal. If there will be an emergency individual will call me instead of dropping a Whatsapp or Facebook msg
Samsung extreme Power save with Grey scale using Modes
12 to 6 am
Mikrotik RB5009, I only reboot when RouterOS has an update, so every month or so
