So i use at the lake the new Verizon 5G wireless modem. Works great. I wrote a "self heal" app to try and restart the modem and router if the internet connection dies. Works great and saves a 2 hour drive to flip a switch. Hope it helps someone. jj
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Very nice! Glad it is working. Thank you for sharing.
One question... 
What is the purpose of the "Delay 0:05:00" at the end? Since the rule is triggered every 5 minutes, it would seem this extra Delay is unnecessary, as there are no additional actions after the Delay.
Murphy's law - i wanted to make certain that the modem and router had five minutes to come back up clean. Agree the 5 minute trigger does the same thing - just making it bullet proof. j
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Hallo, I have some rules running but I am not really an RM specialist ... so the question ... the rule triggers every 5 minutes, total delays is 5 min + 30 seconds ... isn't this leading to the situation that for some time two "instances" of the rule are running? Thank you in advance for info. Michael
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Thank you for replying.
There will always be a bit of a delay in the trigger and the delay in the last command line, whichever gets there first wins - just wanted to make it was bullet proof and in 2 months not a burp. Unplug the modem to test and in 3 failures it cycles the power like a champ. If it is a race or loading issue you are concerned about, it is not doing much of anything as longs as the pings respond properly. I keep a global variable count of the number of times the ping failed and forced the actions to run - 0 in two months. Verizon worked much better than Tmobile - but then again Tmobile told me two weeks ago when i returned theirs i use on another property they had a defective batch and mine was one of them. Replaced and works solid too. They are both under $60 a month unlimited and the speeds are impressive.
Just for clarity, they don't cancel each other out.
If the rule runs at 1:15, then another instance of the rule will still run at 1:20 in parallel.
As you said though, in this particular case, it probably doesn't matter any.
This is what I meant ...
