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m1aroo
Aspirant
Feb 28, 2024

Nighthawk with xfinity and 100mb connection issue

As per the subject, I'm running the Nighthawk modem with xfinity. Normally I'm connected to my pfSense firewall with 2500Base-T. Last couple of days the internet has been acting up and when I go into...
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m1aroo
Aspirant
Feb 29, 2024
m1aroo wrote:

As per the subject, I'm running the Nighthawk modem with xfinity. Normally I'm connected to my pfSense firewall with 2500Base-T. Last couple of days the internet has been acting up and when I go into pfSense I see it as 100Base-T. I have to stop the interface and restart it to get 2500Base-T back.

I also have ATT fiber on another port and it stays at 1000Base-T without issue.

This is something new that started about a week ago.

I'm wondering if anyone else has observed this behavior. It typically happens at night.

I don't know if it's xfinity playing with the router with their managed firmware or if it's something hardware-related (not ruling out firewall either).

i got this... https://19216801.onl/