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I know we usually ignore your first hop and look onwards, and this is definitely between you and our handover - but those hops also drop ICMP requests, so it's almost impossible to tell where this is originating. Can you try bypass your router and get a trace for me?Things are hella unstable this morning
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No core/transit issues at the moment. Do you have a MTR? Area and FNO?internet still goes up and down but not as frequently as over the weekend
wonder if are these drops are going to continue , or coming to an endinternet still goes up and down but not as frequently as over the weekend
no MTR results as it happens randomly from time to time like can be hours in between or minutes. Also it sometimes only drops from like a few seconds Area is Pretoria, Lynnwoodridge, openserveNo core/transit issues at the moment. Do you have a MTR? Area and FNO?
Please try grab a MTR, or confirm if PPPOE is dying? You can log a call too. Not seeing any dips across the core or affecting Openserve clients with lots of Openserve sessions sitting at 1 week+ uptime.no MTR results as it happens randomly from time to time like can be hours in between or minutes. Also it sometimes only drops from like a few seconds Area is Pretoria, Lynnwoodridge, openserve
As per the above, we aren't seeing any weirdness on the network. Let's start with basic checks; are you running on LAN or WiFi? Area and FNO?Also seeing some weirdness this morning, Google meets calls intermittently saying bad connection, YouTube struggling to load intermittently. Currently just says I'm offline on mobile.
Can't seem to narrow down the exact issue though, speedtests seem fine...
Can you provide MTRs? Without tangible data we can't fix an issue.wonder if are these drops are going to continue , or coming to an end
I did yesterday to a site in the uk as an exampleCan you provide MTRs? Without tangible data we can't fix an issue.
The 94Mbps is always the indication that some ethernet port somewhere is doing 100 not 1000Unsurprisingly this was the issue...
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Back to normal now - should've tried this in the first place
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Can we have one today please?I did yesterday to a site in the uk as an example
had to do it on my phone , as on the pc it would simply say site not found
Thank you for confirming. Interesting your Mik showed 1 gbps. I wonder if the SFP (fibre) interface dropped to 100M. Haven't seen that before. My Vuma CPE at home drops to 100 Mbps about once a month, and needs a little nudge.Unsurprisingly this was the issue...
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Back to normal now - should've tried this in the first place
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Will monitor when i get home tonight and see if it dies againCan we have one today please?
Yesterday's issue was related to a transit fault. One of our upstream vendors flapped BGP sessions due to a loop on their network late yesterday afternoon. Routes re-converged and this takes a few mins. However the vendor resolved this issue. There have been no further flaps, and their BGP sessions have been stable today
hmm, weird, maybe I am imagining things, it just doesn't feel like normal. The home page of the YouTube app on mobile won't load at all, although other stuff seems normal currently, the page not loading does feel like DNS not being able to resolve but I don't have any way to confirm.As per the above, we aren't seeing any weirdness on the network. Let's start with basic checks; are you running on LAN or WiFi? Area and FNO?

Thank youWill monitor when i get home tonight and see if it dies again
Thanks for thishmm, weird, maybe I am imagining things, it just doesn't feel like normal. The home page of the YouTube app on mobile won't load at all, although other stuff seems normal currently, the page not loading does feel like DNS not being able to resolve but I don't have any way to confirm.
Ignoring WiFi entirely, here's a trace to youtube.com from my gateway, seems fine though. Is there a better location for me to test to? Using 9.9.9.9 for DNS. Octotel, Southern Subs, CPT.
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Yeah, the router will drop all ICMP traffic. I can't today, literally in back-to-back meetings all day, but I'll try tomorrow morning. Picking up loss again to the UK, which is being a bit problem given 1/2 our infrastructure runs off LON1I know we usually ignore your first hop and look onwards, and this is definitely between you and our handover - but those hops also drop ICMP requests, so it's almost impossible to tell where this is originating. Can you try bypass your router and get a trace for me?
Our office is on the same master note (Parklands) as you and @Zodiak, and we haven't seen the same, but there are also smaller pops hanging off the master node, where this may be presenting.
