Power Cuts and reconnects

[#1]

In the recent bad weather we've had a number of power cuts (trees falling on power lines)
When I had a copper link, this would always reconnect. Now we have fibre (FTTC) it NEVER reconnects. I always need to power cycle both the modem and the router.
The HUAWEI  does not have a user interface so hard to see what it's up to ... my guess is its a timing issue ... modem gets user+passwd from modem but it trys BEFORE modem is fully up ... does this sound plausible?

[#2]

Hi there,
If the router is trying to authenticate before the modem has sync then it will fail to connect, the modem will need to be in sync first.

[#3]

Looks like this is yet another drawback of FFTC....so had I been away from the house e.g. on Holiday it would have gone off the air and stayed that way 'till I returned. Can I not set the Technicolor to retry after some time?

[#4]

It is actually designed to keep retrying so it should connect as long as the previous session has completely terminated.