I am migrating from an old SOHO to the B1. I am not an IT guy. We have a very simple home office setup. I was wondering if I should turn off the Health Check pinging? We only have a single ISP with no other option. Not sure what good the health check can do for us. Is there is a reason to let it do its thing that I dont understand?
Hi. Good observation @Paul4. In a multi-WAN environment, for which the B-One is nicely designed, it is really important for the router to monitor the status of the WANs. The router needs to know which one(s) is/are healthy – or not. However, if you have only one WAN connected I’d recommend disabling it. You can turn it back on to test but it does nothing for you in a single WAN situation. I think the default being set to “on” is the right thing to do on Peplink’s part but in this case I’d disable it.
If, at some point, you implement another WAN you should revisit this parameter and “turn it on.” (We generally recommend using ping to “known good” sites rather than the default DNS but that’s a judgment call.)
Thanks much Rick!
I shot the pepwave folks a question but maybe you can answer it for me. Like I said, I am not an IT guy, every time I start to tinker with the Pepwave (SOHO, now B One) its like re-inventing the wheel (almost).
A long time ago I accessed a hidden menu to toggle a weekly re-boot on our SOHO. A search here didn’t turn up anything. I didnt see an option to schedule a reboot anywhere in the regular menu system. Where is it accessed on the new B-One (if you know)?
Sure. Ha. The “hidden menu” has been a topic here numerous times but my search came up empty also. Weird. Anyway … you just need to change the URL a bit. Easy way: Start with the address where you can see the main page of your GUI. Then, substitute the last few characters so it ends like this: /MANGA/support.cgi. So, after /MANGA/ just add support.cgi in place of whatever was previously there. You’ll find the parameter you’re looking for on that page (along with many new ones if the last version you used was 8.3.0.)
Side note: In our experience Peplink routers do not need periodic reboots. They’re extremely stable. Some “authorities” recommend it for security reasons (I have no opinion on that) but we have not found that a periodic reboot is needed for stablility/performance issues.