Going offline every Tuesday at 5:30am - why?

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wbswetnam

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Every Tuesday at 5:30am, my computer forces the feed offline. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions as to why it always goes offline at this particular time and day?
 

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wbswetnam.........I am sure you have already checked, but maybe your anti virus or the feed PC "Check for updates" settings are all ok! There must be a reason for this and wish I knew the answer! Maybe someone on here has the solution! Thanks
 

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Some kind of system update at that time? Check all your settings, and then if still no answers, we go to troubleshooting again.
 

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Mine was because of AVG antivirus. Once I switched to another antivirus, the problem disappeared.
 

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Mine was because of AVG antivirus. Once I switched to another antivirus, the problem disappeared.

My antivirus is Avast, and I checked the settings on the AV... it seems normal. Part of the problem is that I don't actually live where the scanner is. The scanner / computer set up are at my dad's house in Southside, whereas I live 130 miles away in Russellville, so I don't have immediate access to it. Plus, my 80 year old father has zero computer skills so I can't ask him to reset it for me - it just has to wait until my next visit whenever it goes offline.
 

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I use the free version of TeamViewer on my feed computer so I can remote in to restart broadcastify if something happen to it.

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The scanner / computer set up are at my dad's house in Southside, whereas I live 130 miles away in Russellville, so I don't have immediate access to it.

I use Chrome Remote Desktop to access my feed computer. It does an excellent job.

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I have the Chrome Remote Desktop set up, and I set Windows Update from automatic to "only when prompted". Now let's see what happens this Tuesday at 5:30am...
 

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Once again, Windows seems to have crashed and I don't know why. Chrome Desktop has been forceably logged off from that end. At this point I give up, I'm taking down the feed permanently. Oh well it was worth a try.
 

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Once again, Windows seems to have crashed and I don't know why. Chrome Desktop has been forceably logged off from that end. At this point I give up, I'm taking down the feed permanently. Oh well it was worth a try.

Maybe you should try to have the pc run in save mode for a week and see what happens then. I think you will still be able to access it thru chrome or teamveiwer. If you do that do save mode with networking.
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I think that I may have finally found the problem, and it isn't the computer, or the scanner - it's the cable modem. For some reason it 'hick ups' early on Tuesday mornings and needs to be reset. Fortunately, even my technology-challenged 80-year-old father can unplug and plug back in the modem to reset it. I'm going to give that a try; I'd like to keep the feed going. It's running for now but I expect it to go offline again Tuesday AM, so I'll call my father and ask him to reset the modem for me.
 

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Try Remote software

I use TeamViewer to remote control my PC. It is free for personal use. You can enable unattended access with a free account.
You could also setup the application in the Windows Startup folder and setup an auto reboot at 5:35am or later.
Sometimes after a power outage or similar, I have to call home (I travel a lot) to have someone power the PC back on. ScannerCast auto restarts, but sometimes TwoToneDetect does not.
 

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It went offline this morning at 5:30AM, as always. Later in the morning I called my father, who reset the modem, and now it's running again. It's still a mystery as to why Suddenlink causes the internet modem to go offline at that particular time, but now I have a solution to the problem.
 

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I had a very similar problem and what was happening was the cable company was updating there DNS servers and that would cause the drop out . My fix was to go into the network settings and use googles Free Public DNS servers and my problem was solved.

Googles DNS IS

Prefered DNS : 8.8.8.8

Alternate DNS: 8.8.4.4
 
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