Is Afrihost currently down?

They are just useless these days... Full of blame and not resolving issues, and wasting ones time.
 
I.am.Sam said:
My ont box has one orange light and now afrihost modem also down

Is it me or anyone else
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Mine and a few others in adjacent areas went down around that time. Looking at the ONT's webgui it seems they've pushed a software update which might explain the orange LED during the boot stage.
 
JonOpollo said:
Mine and a few others in adjacent areas went down around that time. Looking at the ONT's webgui it seems they've pushed a software update which might explain the orange LED during the boot stage.
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How do you access a web gui on an ONT? Most ONT's are layer 2 devices with ethernet passthrough. They don't normally have their own IP addresses.
 
deweyzeph said:
Aaah, I see, these devices are actually combination ONT/routers.
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Ye most ONT's can function as either L2 bridge or router. ONT's I have used usually have a webpage exposed on the LAN side for basic info/config, handy for checking optical signals for example.
 
eddief1 said:
Ye most ONT's can function as either L2 bridge or router. ONT's I have used usually have a webpage exposed on the LAN side for basic info/config, handy for checking optical signals for example.
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The problem is how to do you access it on layer 3? If you connect any ethernet device to one of the LAN ports on the ONT you're going to get a public ip address from your ISP which obviously will not allow you to access its web page on 192.168.1.254. I guess using a device with a static ip address in the 192.168.1.X range might work though.
 
deweyzeph said:
The problem is how to do you access it on layer 3? If you connect any ethernet device to one of the LAN ports on the ONT you're going to get a public ip address from your ISP which obviously will not allow you to access its web page on 192.168.1.254. I guess using a device with a static ip address in the 192.168.1.X range might work though.
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Yes in this case it is only accessible via static address on the active LAN port assigned to your service, as the openserve ONTs do not serve any dhcp addresses.

In my case, when I need to access it, my router creates and bridges two virtual wan cables. One for the PPPoE connection and another with the static address config just to not have to go up and swap around cables or configs as my network setup is in a quite difficult to reach space and downtime is annoying for the rest of the family.
 
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