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Update: see my replies below

original post

Is the internet being weird for anyone else this morning, or is it just us? Most evidence suggests it's a local problem, since some computers seem to be having no trouble (after I reset a couple of things), but some are still persistently being weird and I'm wondering if maybe there's a larger problem that isn't affecting all machines the same.

The weirdest thing is that I can access sites just fine with wget, but then browsers (on certain machines) give an ERR_CONNECTION_RESET on the exact same site. ping appears unaffected.

Ibis-Racoon Griffin

@BigShellEvent@toot.cat replied · 5 hours ago

@woozle weird for me but my region (like a few streets here) had been weird for months

Woozle Hypertwin

@woozle@toot.cat replied · 12 hours ago

Apparently one of our ISP connections is having internal (LAN) issues, and that's why some things were working and some weren't.

(This is why (a) I'm glad I kept the Spectrum cable connection after getting GFiber, but also (b) why having 2 ISP connections makes it difficult to diagnose problems sometimes.)

I'm now trying to figure out where the actual problem is -- GFiber itself is working fine if I connect via its built-in wifi, so it's not that the WAN connection is down.

It's got to be LAN hardware, but exactly which piece? Our (multi-WAN) switch is obviously a possible suspect...

cc: @EveHasWords @csgraves @gannet

Woozle Hypertwin

@woozle@toot.cat replied · 12 hours ago

Update: So, we're fine for now on the old (Spectrum) connection. If I try to diagnose the problem further, though, I'll end up disconnecting everyone for minutes at a time (unpredictably), and I don't want to get into that just now.

I'm also suspicious that the router itself isn't working right. For one thing, whenever I try to change the settings it locks up hard and I have to power-cycle it to get it back (and as of now, its web UI isn't responding at all).

...so I've ordered another router via Ebay, this time a completely different brand -- the current gigabit router and the old 100MB one are both TP-Link. (I've never heard of "Luxul", so this will be a learning experience 😅)

cc:
@EveHasWords @csgraves @gannet

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Eve Ventually

@EveHasWords@toot.cat replied · 14 hours ago

@woozle It's too early for me to know for sure but, so far, seems fine here.

Although roughly half of my devices have a 3rd party DNS configured so there's a lot of things I don't notice.

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