MAX Router Rebooter, Wi-Fi Reset Device, Monitors Connectivity and Resets When Required. No App Necessary. If You Enter a Phone Number it Will Send Texts Upon resets.

Update 2/19/25 - It’s been over 4 years and the 254 resets that Keep Connect has performed have kept my connection available every singe one of those days. That’s a phenomenal accomplishment. Bravo Zulu Keep Connect!Update: 8/7/23 - It’s been over 2.5 years and Keep Connect has worked flawlessly. I’ve not experienced any prolong outages since deploying it. Sure beats having to drive 150 miles every month or so to reset my router as I had to do before Keep Connect.Update: 11/16/22 - I’ve been using Keep Connect for almost 2 years now. It’s working better and more often than ever. I recently switched from a mom and pop AT&T bandwidth reseller to T-Mobile’s Home Internet. My old connection almost never went down so I would go months without Keep Connect having to do its thing. This T-Mobile connection has many more problems and Keep Connect is sometimes kicking in several times a day to keep the connection up. I appreciate this device more than ever.Update: 8/28/22 - another year has passed and Keep Connect is still working flawlessly for me. More importantly, my remote connection has remained available.Update 4: 7/15/2021 - Keep Connect has been working for me as advertised for about 7 months. I have it set to power cycle my LTE router once a week and it has handled the occasional connectivity issues just fine. No complaints at all.Update 3: 1/27/2021 - In a previous update, I mentioned that you can set Keep Connect to automatically cycle power on a particular day and time. Turns out that isn’t entirely accurate. On a Tuesday I set mine to automatically cycle power every 7 days at 10:00am. One might think that this would cycle power every Tuesday at 10 :00am thereafter. However, what it actually seems to do is to cycle power seven days from the previous power cycle. So if Keep Connect cycled power on a Saturday (unscheduled) due to a connectivity issue, the next automatic scheduled power cycle would be seven days from Saturday, unless of course their is another unscheduled event in the meantime.Update 2: 1/9/2021 - My LTE internet connection had some hiccups this morning, which Keep Connect recognized and in response power cycled my router. The power cycle did reestablish the connection. The text I received when this happened is attached. Bumped my original 4 star rating to a 5.Update: 1/5/2021 - I have my Keep Connect setup to automatically power cycle my router every Tuesday at 10:00am. That functionality seems to work as advertised. I received a text message from them informing me of the auto reset.I am using this device to keep an LTE-based internet connection up at a remote cabin.Before purchasing this device, I tried several different but similar devices, none of which worked for more than a few months. These other devices were more brute force. They simply cycled power on a device on a predetermined schedule. Keep Connect differs from those other devices in that it is intended to join a WiFi network and monitor it for certain connectivity issues. It then is supposed to power cycle the device plugged into it in response to those connectivity issue. It does also have the capability to cycle power on a schedule.The included configuration documentation and the information provided on their website is pretty sparse.When you first plug-in the Keep Connect device, it creates a new, temporary WiFi network to join in order to configure the device. When you connect to that temporary SSID (I used an iPad), a configuration page will automatically pop up in a web browser. From this configuration page you select Configure WiFi and then on the subsequent page, select the Wi-Fi network’s SSID you want the device to join and monitor. You will also need to provide your WiFi network password. You can also provide a cell phone number for Keep Connect to send texts to on certain events, such as when it power cycles your router. I left all other options on the main configuration page at default values. I suggest you also select the Advance Configuration option at this point. From the Advance Configuration section you can select a schedule to power cycle your device, among other options. If you later want to change any of the configuration options, you must hit the main button on the front of the device and reconfigure from scratch. It’s not a difficult or time-consuming process though.Once you save your configuration, you should receive an automated text message from Johnson Creative (assuming you entered your cell phone number) which lets you know that their back-end set up is complete. It also provides a code which can be used from their website to remotely query your device. None of the information returned from this functionality was sensitive, but you should be aware that Johnson Creative is remotely communicating with your Keep Connect device. The information returned is essentially the date and time of previous power cycles and a timestamp of the last time they communicated with your KeepConnect device.I intend to update this review once I know that it consistently does what it claims. The reason for my initial 4 star review is that I currently lack that information.

No Ethernet, only WiFi, but runs stable. Setup was a bit annoying as the instructions are not clear whether to start with an app or not. No false shut offs in the two plus weeks I’ve been running it. Only one legitimate shut down has been triggered (by a test) and I got a text notification (if you set this up). Default trigger time is a while, like 4 minutes of no internet before a restart, kind of long, but I suppose it needs to be long enough for the modem to restart without powering down before it can catch up. I changed up my internet after getting this (replaced a router) and this did not require me to reset the device. It just logged back on once the same named WiFi network was restored. I like that I haven’t had to reset this device or set it back up at all. No Ethernet plug is a drag but the WiFi connection is stable and it works like it’s supposed to, so get this if you need it.

A must have if you need wi-fi at your home when traveling or especially if you are operating an Airbnb.

I generally like this. The setup on it wasn't too bad -- it has its own SSID for initial setup, you connect to it with your phone, configure it and then connect it to the app. It monitors, basically trying to reach two sites and when it fails, power cycles the cable modem and then watches for when it comes back and can notify you at each step.Taking a star away because it wasn't clear that using the app requires an annual fee for the monitoring, which is pretty steep if you're only monitoring one location.Also noting that what I would have REALLY wanted is something with two outlets and two ethernet ports that could be plugged into a jack on the cable modem and one on the router to determine what is dropping the connection and reboot it with a rule that, when the cable modem comes back up, it waits until the signal is back and then optionally reboots the router, and that would have been really easy to identify with ethernet. And, nitpicking a little here, but it would be ideal to have a regular width plug instead of a wall wart that takes up a couple outlets on my power strip.Also, both ISPs that I have available suck and have a lot of downtime, so I'm buying from both and using a load-balancing and failover setting on my router. I was able to establish a routing rule to send traffic from the KeepConnect to a specific ISP and reboot when that specific ISP fails, but I would have really preferred to just plug something into the ethernet jack on the cable modem and reboot it when it drops or the ping time lags instead of identifying a failure after it's already gotten through the router and shows up as a dropped WiFi connection.And yeah, we're like 25 years into cable modems and they should definitely be smart enough to try to reinitiate the connections on their own by now if they drop, but here we are.