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Random Loss of Connections..
My router is randomly and intermittently turning off it's wired and WiFi connections, which means every device connected loses it's connection. It occurred several times yesterday and sometimes occu...
The modem is a tp link TD-W9970 in bridge mode, but it has been 100% stable since I setup the netgear with it until recently, we're talking months if not years.
Anyway I took a look at the netgear settings and it looks like these disconnects might have coincided with some settings I put into the ipv6 page. So I've reset it to off for the moment and will test.
My bad if this issue was self inflicted...
schumaku wrote:
Beyond, a not so fun fact is that the RAX70 WAN port does run on Fast Ethernet (100 Mb/s) - in the year 2023 where people expect reliable and well performing Internet. Ok cuke2u can tell us this is expected due to the device making up the Internet connection connected on the WAN port, or because it's known the cabling between the RAX70 WAN port and the uplink device is just made from two cable pairs, or some crazy port-safer or cable-sharing adapters.
Well spotted. Those connection statistics are nuts.
The WAN and LAN ports in the router are rated up to 1000BASE-T. So why is it showing 100 Mbps on the WAN?
The LAN 3 at 100 Mbps is probably down to the device concerned. Many TVs are rated at 100BASE-T
The WAN may also be down to the modem and its specifications. But as cuke2u doesn't want to tell us what that device is, who knows what is happening?
The modem is a tp link TD-W9970 in bridge mode, but it has been 100% stable since I setup the netgear with it until recently, we're talking months if not years.
Anyway I took a look at the netgear settings and it looks like these disconnects might have coincided with some settings I put into the ipv6 page. So I've reset it to off for the moment and will test.
My bad if this issue was self inflicted...
cuke2u wrote:
The modem is a tp link TD-W9970 in bridge mode, but it has been 100% stable since I setup the netgear with it until recently, we're talking months if not years.
That explains the connection statistics. This is a DSL modem/router with 100 Mbps WAN and LAN ports. Same as my DM200.
No point in having anything faster when the Internet connection can't support it.
Anyway I took a look at the netgear settings and it looks like these disconnects might have coincided with some settings I put into the ipv6 page. So I've reset it to off for the moment and will test.One way to test would be to reset the router and set it up from scratch.
cuke2u wrote:The modem is a tp link TD-W9970 in bridge mode, but it has been 100% stable since I setup the netgear with it until recently, we're talking months if not years.
Anyway I took a look at the netgear settings and it looks like these disconnects might have coincided with some settings I put into the ipv6 page. So I've reset it to off for the moment and will test.
My bad if this issue was self inflicted...
Did you confirm whether or not your ISP supports IPv6?
Kitsap wrote:
cuke2u wrote:
The modem is a tp link TD-W9970 in bridge mode, but it has been 100% stable since I setup the netgear with it until recently, we're talking months if not years.
Anyway I took a look at the netgear settings and it looks like these disconnects might have coincided with some settings I put into the ipv6 page. So I've reset it to off for the moment and will test.
My bad if this issue was self inflicted...
Did you confirm whether or not your ISP supports IPv6?
And if the router supports the ISP's implementation of IPv6?
So far no disconnects 🙂
Yes my isp does support ipv6 and I've been looking at a way of implementing it with the RAX70. I thought I'd found some settings that would work, as posted in the Sky community, however it seems they might not and it maybe that the RAX70 will not support the credentials that Sky uses, as you've stated.
With regards to the modem and the WAN speed, I have only a connection of around 35mbps anyway, thus a faster port is not required.
