Whoops, thought you were asking why your wife was going out at the same time every night…
Wifi is very different.
Pauly01, yes those pictures help. Just by way of terminology, the white cord the routers are plugged into is an extension cord. An outlet is the socket in your wallthat you plug your TV or toaster or whatever into.
In that locked box is almost certainly a timer that turns the power to the extension cord off every Thursday night., and that’s what kills your WiFi. Are there any other outlets anywhere in that room? Or maybe on the wall just outside the room? to solve this, you either need to get in that locked box, or you need to find another outlet.
Hi. The internet goes out EVERY NIGHT AT 2:40AM… not just every thursday night.
I don’t see any outlets in that room. Im not really sure to even call that a room. Its like you open the door to it and see that stuff there and the emergency staircase you can walk from apartment to there.
Well there are apartments that are pretty close to where the router is.
This is what confuses me. When you say find another outlet… okay so you can connect the two routers into a different outlet but where does the other end of the outlet connect to? That would be the problem here.
The only solution is to find another wall outlet to plug a different extension cord into, unless you can get inside the locked box.
How about a UPS? Pauly01, do you happen to have one you can put in the loop there? I forget if we know how long power is out, but the devices attached shouldn’t draw too much power, so a fairly basic UPS should keep them alive for a bit.
Basically, you’d plug the UPS into the white extension cord, and plug the things that used to be attached to the extension cord into the UPS instead.
Digital,
It goes out every night at 2:40am and comes back at 3:08am.
I read about a UPS. I had never heard of it but someone mentioned this in a forum. So if i buy one of these, then this would fix this issue just like that? So if i find any type of UPS on amazon, i can buy it and it would work?
Zenbeam,
The wall outlet. You mean the outlet has to be at an ACTUAL WALL? Because i thought a bit and thought is it possible to put both routers into an apartment and connect it there?
A UPS is basically a big battery. It’s plugged into the wall, and charges its battery from there. Other things plug into it, and it passes wall power through to the other things.
If wall power goes away for some reason - a timer turning it off, for instance, then the UPS provides power to the other devices from it’s internal battery. When wall power comes back on, it gets passed through again, and the battery gets recharged.
The size of the battery and the specific items attached would control how long it lasts.
They are available from Amazon. And Target, Walmart, Office Depot, and a host of other stores.
I don’t recommend running out and buying one immediately - let’s see what others in the thread think of the idea, and what other things they come up with.
okay i just checked online and it cost at least 55 dollars at the minimum for one of these things. Most of these are betwween 75 and 160 dollars for one.
I said “wall outlet” because you keep calling the extension cord an outlet, and I wanted to make sure you weren’t thinking you could just plug it into anther extension cord. Somewhere, it needs to be plugged into the building’s electricity.
You said upthread (I think) that if the power went off a little later, you’d be OK. If you can get the person with the key to the box to open it, you should be able to change the timer to go off later. If it went off at 4:00 am would that be late enough? Or 4:30 am? Then it would be back on a half hour later, at 4:30 or 5:00 am.
When daylight savings starts again, it would be going off and coming back on an hour later, so it would come back on at 5:30 or 6:00 am. You couldn’t push it back any farther, unless you know none of the other tenants get up early.
Hi. Well there is an apartment that is close to the router where i think this would work… problem though is the 2 routers would need to be inside this apartment though and the other thing is i dont think that could happen b/c that is where they want the 2 routers to be at the moment.
Yes if the power went off a bit later it would be fine. Right now its 2:40am to 3:08am and once daylight saving start again it would be 3:40am to 4:08am. If right now it goes out at 5:40am to 6:08am it would never be a problem for me. But of course once day light saving time, then its 6:40am to 7:08am. But doing it from 4:40am to 5:08am would still be fine. The thing is im only here for a few more month but the issue here would be to have it changed back when i leave b/c it would be hassle for them to fix it again etc.
Only thing i know about tenants here is all of them live here short term 1-6 months usually and then leave just like me. And i know very few are up that late such as me. I dont know how early they are up though but i extremely doubt they are up at 6am that early. The other thing is im pretty sure most of them dont use the internet that much here.
So if they open it… is it easy for me to change the timer? Such as i look at the timer and then i could figure out how to change it just like that? Thing is i have no clue, i mean is it basically like an alarm and then you change it pretty easily? Also does that timer allow them to do how many minutes they want it for? Such as can’t i change the timer from 5am to 5:05am and thats that? Why the 28 minute though?
Thing is the person gave me the username/password to the router to see if i could fix this myself but ppl told me the 2 routers turning off has nothing to do with the router settings and the router doesnt have a reschedule every night so thus its a timer/outlet. Thing is i will try to ask that person to come over but assuming he opens it, let say he doesnt know how to turn off the timer … would i be able to do it?
Thanks zenbeam.
Most timers are pretty self explanatory. I have some that have little hinged plastic parts on the edge of a disk. Like this one http://i.ebayimg.com/t/Masterplug-Masterplug-TM24-3-Pack-of-Mechanical-24-Hour-Mains-Timers-/00/s/NjAwWDYwMA==/z/oJkAAOxy4t1SgMl1/$_35.JPGI pull them up or down according to when I want power or not. No doubt there are many other ways of doing it.
If it is electronic it may be more complicated. If you can find a name and model on it, a quick search should find the instructions.
Did you consider just breaking into the cabinet?
I just went down there and took a look. At first i got the idea of hey couldn’t i just plug the 2 routers the black wire from the router to my apartment since i have outlets there… problem though is the wire for these 2 routers wouldn’t be long enough. I have a 50 feet ethernet cable that i connected from my laptop to one of the routers to make my internet wired as oppose to wireless.
Theres a lock in that cabinet…
Also i thought about just bringing both the routers into my apartment instead but the problem with is beside they probably wouldn’t allow this would be there is an ethernet cable that is connected to the router from the modem in an apartment in that floor.
So no there isn’t any outlet around where the routers are located at. But if you go about 25 feet then there would be but problem is that is not my apartment but someone elses.
So zenbeam, just to confirm. So you are saying if there was an electrical outlet close by and i would be able to connect both router wires to an outlet instead of that white extension cord… that would mean 100 percent this issue would be fixed? What if i buy an extension cord and plug it into an outlet in my apt and then have the 2 router wires connected to it? Would that work as well? Do you know if there are any 35 feet to 40 feet extension cord? Reason is being i know thats how long it is at least from where the routers are to my apartment b/c i have a 50 feet ethernet cable that connects directly to one of the routers.
However i saw an extension cord thats about 30 dollars or so thats 50 feet
But wouldn’t the issue here be that it only has 1 outlet and i would need to have 2 at least for the 2 routers?
Those two black AC adapters in this picture that are plugged into the extension cord could both be plugged into that extension cord you linked to, run from from your apartment. The routers would stop turning off every night, so you might need to reset them manually on occasion, as people talked about upthread. There’s probably some reason they are cycled every night. Since you have the router passwrod, you could do that remotely, or just unplug the extension cord briefly once in a while before you go to bead at night, when you’re the only one on.
Since the cord you linked to only has one socket, you’d need something like this or this. I looked for a cord with more outlets at the end, but couldn’t find one.
okay i spoke to that person and told them that the username/password doesnt do any good b/c there is no setting that does the daily reset in the router and that is the electric/power issue. The person told me they cant help me with that because this isnt router or anything involved with the equipment and i had to contact the person and tell them they cant fix this issue b/c its a power issue.
I asked them about the thing where that cord goes into and if they can open it and they said i have to contact the person and ask them it since he doesnt know these stuff. But the person did say he agreed this is a power issue and everything that you guys suspected this issue is, he says yes to it all.
zenbeam i see the link for those 2 things you posted. However, isn’t the string going to be pretty short though? Thus the 2 one you showed me aren’t those like really short cords?
You use one of them together with the extension cord. The problem is that the existing extension cord has multiple plugs available, and has two things plugged into it.
The long extension cord discussed above only as one plug available, so you can’t plug both items into it. The things **zenbeam **posted plugs into the extension cord, and allows you to plug two things into it.
A long extension cord will cause safety issues and be a liability for the apartment building owner.
Frankly, the EASIEST fix is to finish all your online work prior to the shutoff time. Go to bed. Watch TV. Read a book.
Don’t bust open the locked box. Don’t buy a UPS, or a long extension cord with two outlets or an adapter. Quit fiddling with everything. You have internet access 23 hours out of 24. Be happy with that.
~VOW