9It never stops being frustrating to wait for a website to load or an email to open, only to find that your internet connection is acting up once again. There are a lot of possible reasons why your connection might be down, and a lot of possible ways to fix it too, luckily some solutions are easy enough for everyone to try.
Before you go calling your internet service provider to complain about your faulty connection, the first trick you should try is a simple method known as power cycling. The words “power cycling” might sound exciting, or like something terribly challenging, but in fact all it involves is shutting down your modem to reset your internet connection.
Power cycling can work on any kind of internet connection, be it cable, DSL or even satellite, though of course it isn’t a magical solution for all the problems you might have. The first thing you will need to do is turn off the modem, you can do this by removing the power chord as not all modems come with power switches. Once the modem has been off for about 30 minutes or so, you may plug it back in, the modem will then cycle through its boot-up sequence and reconnect itself to the internet.
If this does not work, you can try a system-wide power cycle by also switching off your computer, then your modem, your router and any other machines connected to your network. Then power them up in order going from the modem, to the router, and always switching on your computer last. Before you try to reconnect your devices, be sure that the previous devices have all finished their boot up processes. Whilst this might not fix all problems, running a power cycle can restore your internet connection in many cases with very little hassle.
