Anyone else getting lots of trouble tonight?

[gyruss]

Hardly a great night for using the internet it would seem.  Anyone else got trouble with their connection tonight?   I've forced a reboot of my router as it was 'red light' when i got in from work.. and has been up and down since.

[Glenn]

My connection has been fine tonight.

[gyruss]

Guess its yet another Television night for me then. :/

[Steve]

There's BT Edge router down in Reading or was until 20 mins ago.

[Bill]

The problems I've been having are entirely self-inflicted 

Connection has been fine.

[Steve]

I have noticed you've kicked the router Bill, whether it makes any difference I don't know but it does make the QM look more pleasing.

[Bill]

I tried a disconnect/reconnect to try to get rid of the poor-ish pings, lost  the wireless to the MacBook (some error message about changing security settings- I haven't!!!!) and couldn't get my IPv6 back again... so I re-booted the router and still no IPv6

Eventually had to disable v6, reconnect, re-enable it and reconnect again

I'm about 4 firmware versions behind, I think maybe it's time I bit the bullet and updated

Pity really- the uptime on the router was 112 days odd.

[Steve]

I'm on v1.06g with the 7800N, it reconnected fine, with IPv6 following on a few seconds later.

[Bill]

I'm using an Asus RT-N66U now, it's a lovely router but the firmware has one or two IPv6 buglets... I haven't updated to the later versions as they have an NVRAM change which they guarantee will wipe all the settings, and there's always something that I forgot I'd changed

[Bill]

If you're interested, there's a tbb review of the Asus here:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/hardware/reviews/76-asus-rt-n66u.html

[Steve]

I think now I recall you've mentioned that router previously, I could do with something to sort out the QoS to the prodigal son's machine, it looks easy from the pictures whereas with the 7800N it doesn't look an easy task. I'm not bothered about the 5GHz yet as my old AEBS is still provides that functionality.

[gyruss]

Tonight is not much better :/  Hardly great when you are sat there browsing and then get that 'it's gone again!' feeling. 

[Steve]

I'm not seeing anything abnormal on the other TBBQMs that I've access to. I can't see any current BT faults. I think your going to have to take,this up with support next week.

[gyruss]

What i've done for now is switched from my Netgear router to my Cisco WAG320n router and will monitor it for the rest of the weekend.

The frequent dropouts of the internet were crazy last night and most of the morning today, so will see if the change of router helps... if it does not then i'll be onto support for sure.. or bt.. gack i have dealing with them.

[gyruss]

Changed routers around 10pm(ish) changed the setting so the monitor could see the router..  and this shows the activity since.. seems ok to me so far...

[Steve]

Looking better! 

[gyruss]

Has been much better today, the router i've got on now is one I had prior to the netgear, luckily it had all its settings in place, and i still knew all the passwords and fixed Ip's I set it up with, so was able to get it switched into place within about 15 mins.

As my thinkbroadband monitor graph is clearly showing, today it seems perfect, and i've not had one occasion of 'it's gone again!' all day.. so would seem my Netgear router has some issues which is fine.. it happens... just glad it wasn't the actual internet link to the house.

Moral of the story?  keep all your routers, no matter what

[Steve]

Certainly a working spare should be hidden well away.

[gyruss]

I have 3 or 4.. but only the netgear and this cisco linksys one were really any good for general use.

Just wondering now if the netgear was stopping my experiment with trying to get the faster speeds in recent months where they upped it to 12meg  and it became unstable.

I'll run it at the current setting for now, and see again about upping the threshold again at some point after christmas i guess.