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lchiu7

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#241010 6-Oct-2018 21:54
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Was just doing some rewiring and unplugged my router and plugged it in again and now I have no internet access. I have done all the usual things like reboot the router, power cycle the optical modem and still no access. The modem shows power on , optical and lan1 is orange and connected ok to my Asus router which also shows it has internet connectivity.

of course sending an email to bigpipe isn't very satisfying because they take up to 2 hours to respond




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lchiu7

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  #2112139 22-Oct-2018 11:29
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OK worked it out - user error :-(

 

Recarpeting the house and had to completely uncable all the network for my HT.  When I put it back I inadvertently patched two inputs togethert on the switch. I didn't notice this since that segment was disconnected from my router. But when I put it back, the patching must have flooded the network with packets and caused intermittent network issues. Interestingly though, the problem didn't occur straight away. I went out the day after I patched the inputs together and all had been well only to come back home and find my whole house WiFi had gone down. So there was no obvious correlation between action and consequence.

 

Interestingly though, I only noticed it when I saw all the lights on my switch flashing continously as if there was some device on the LAN broadcasting like crazy and only then when I started to unplug each cable did I see one cable had been patched back into another port :-)

 

Hard to see when all the kit is buried in a cabinet and hard to reach.





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