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  • grrr @Sky

    From Louis Northmore@2:250/8 to All on Sun Mar 6 21:50:40 2022

    Hello everybody!

    Having a nightmare recently with Sky broadband.

    We've had a few evenings recently with it disconnecting every few mins.

    Anyone else having issues with them?

    Louis


    ... Auto correct has become my worst enema.
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5--b20170303
    * Origin: Sonic BBS :: North Yorkshire, England (2:250/8)
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Louis Northmore on Sun Mar 6 23:59:06 2022
    Hello Louis!

    Sunday March 06 2022 21:50, you wrote to All:


    Hello everybody!

    Having a nightmare recently with Sky broadband.

    We've had a few evenings recently with it disconnecting every few
    mins.

    Anyone else having issues with them?

    No but have you shutdown the sky router and any others co-linked then restarted
    having also rebooted your system ?

    Routers do get a case of need to reboot some times.

    Vincent

    --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.24/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)
  • From Louis Northmore@2:250/8 to Vincent Coen on Mon Mar 7 00:44:00 2022

    Hello Vincent!

    No but have you shutdown the sky router and any others co-linked then restarted
    having also rebooted your system ?

    Routers do get a case of need to reboot some times.

    Yep, done all the reboots. Looking at the router logs it fails to get a lease from them.
    We've had no problems at all for over a year, then all of a sudden, its been really flaky.

    Checked on their status page and it was a known outage in our area.

    Will have to call them in the morning and see if anything can be done. Perhaps a new router or firmware or something. Fingers crossed!

    Louis


    ... Keep your monster on a leash!
    --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5--b20170303
    * Origin: Sonic BBS :: North Yorkshire, England (2:250/8)
  • From Tristan Greaves@2:250/11 to Vincent Coen on Mon Mar 7 06:59:34 2022
    Re: grrr @Sky
    By: Vincent Coen to Louis Northmore on Sun Mar 06 2022 11:59 pm

    Routers do get a case of need to reboot some times.

    Heh, I would argue this depends on the router...

    My broadband router, technically acting as a modem at the moment, only gets power cycled if there is no option (e.g. forced power down and no UPS ;-) )

    The main router I have is an OPNsense firewall box that only gets rebooted about once a month, and that's only due to updates as opposed to anything going awry.

    That said, my experience of ISP-provided boxes has always been lukewarm, so perhaps not surprised to hear this as a general thought...

    Tristan.
    --- SBBSecho 3.15-Linux
    * Origin: Extricate BBS - bbs.extricate.org (2:250/11)
  • From Louis Northmore@2:250/8.1 to Tristan Greaves on Mon Mar 7 08:58:24 2022
    //Hello Tristan,//

    on *3/7/2022* at *6:59:34* You wrote in area *Z2REGION25*
    to *Vincent Coen* about *"grrr @Sky"*.

    Routers do get a case of need to reboot some times.

    Heh, I would argue this depends on the router...

    My broadband router, technically acting as a modem at the moment, only gets power cycled if there is no option (e.g. forced power down and no
    UPS ;-) )

    The main router I have is an OPNsense firewall box that only gets
    rebooted about once a month, and that's only due to updates as opposed to anything going awry.

    Nice. Mine is basically in modem mode too. Everything gets handled by PFSense here.

    That said, my experience of ISP-provided boxes has always been lukewarm, so perhaps not surprised to hear this as a general thought...

    I mean, it can't hurt right? More often than not it's an act of desperation though!

    Louis
    --- WinPoint 389.0
    * Origin: Original *WinPoint* Origin! (2:250/8.1)
  • From Vincent Coen@2:250/1 to Tristan Greaves on Mon Mar 7 16:46:13 2022
    Hello Tristan!

    Monday March 07 2022 06:59, you wrote to me:

    Re: grrr @Sky
    By: Vincent Coen to Louis Northmore on Sun Mar 06 2022 11:59 pm

    Routers do get a case of need to reboot some times.

    Heh, I would argue this depends on the router...

    My broadband router, technically acting as a modem at the moment, only
    gets power cycled if there is no option (e.g. forced power down and no
    UPS ;-) )

    The main router I have is an OPNsense firewall box that only gets
    rebooted about once a month, and that's only due to updates as opposed
    to anything going awry.

    That said, my experience of ISP-provided boxes has always been
    lukewarm, so perhaps not surprised to hear this as a general
    thought...

    I said "need to reboot some times"

    I did not specify how often - mine normally they can go well over a year unless
    I need to make changes to the router acting as a modem (Cable VM) which has been once when I suffered no ssh inbounds since switching to the new service.

    The VM device is a Hub 3 and I have gone through similar devices from BT, Plusnet, Talktalk and the later three where not used except in an emergency as I use Asus routers - I prefer to spend the money and NOT have any issues with port forwarding etc where the rest of the firewall is fully operational.

    Turned out to be the sshd service not running and likewise the telnetd service but that one I will be killing off and just leave the sshd service.

    Just waiting to see what traffic is being used by both services using the BBS but as I do not advertise it is generally minimal.


    Vincent

    --- Mageia Linux v8 X64/Mbse v1.0.7.24/GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20180707
    * Origin: Air Applewood, The Linux Gateway to the UK & Eire (2:250/1)