I have been having real trouble with my tmobile home internet connection lately and apparently it’s an issue with their tower. I get dozens of disconnects every day - which is just the balance doing it’s job, but is there any way to stay disconnected for a period? They disconnects come in waves that last about 5 minutes, so I’d like a disconnect to wait 5 minutes before trying the connection again.
Is this possible?
The HealthCheck settings Marcelo has posted are what you want.
The combination of the health check interval and recovery retries are what will do it.
In the screenshot Marcelo posted, it checks the health of the connection every 120 seconds, and if it can’t be completed in 5 seconds its marked as failed.
The retries is how many health checks have to fail before the link is marked as down, in this instance 3, so the connection has to be down for 360+ seconds before it will be marked as down.
The recovery retries is what sets the hold-down once it comes back online, which is what you want- it has to get 3x successful health checks (another 360 seconds) before it will mark it as up.
I would normally have a lower time in the interval (10 seconds is the default), but then increase your recovery retries to increase the time it will hold it down.
So if you have:
and the connection goes down, it will take about 30 seconds to mark it as down (3x failures). If it comes back up, it needs 20x successful before it will mark it as up (200 seconds).
Interesting - I do not have an option for “SmartCheck” - I wonder why. .
Thanks for the details - I didn’t know that was how Recover Retries worked.
I will play with the retries and see if it helps. Thanks for the tips!!!
smartcheck is for cellular links, if its not cellular it will show the other healthcheck options.
