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#306886 31-Aug-2023 13:25
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Hello smart people. I may have a curly one for y'all which I've been going back and forth with 2degrees on with no confidence in a resolution. I do not have any experience in fixing connection issues so any input would be appreciated.

 

 

 

I use my 2degrees wifi when working from home. This has been working completely fine for 4 month since I started a new job. Since exactly 12.57pm Friday 25 August, it no longer wants to connect to: our intranet (the homepage won't load), Teams (very very intermittent connection only - a text message would go through every now and again, pictures don't at all), Onedrive and sharepoint (I'm connecting through Tableau). All other websites (eg Facebook, Google, Stuff etc) continue to work as normal.

 

 

 

I can confirm that all the above continues to work normally on my hotspot (also 2degrees for mobile), and on other networks outside my home. I can also confirm that Teams seems to work more or less ok, though not as stable as it used to be, on my phone when connected to the wifi network (I don't have any other work applications on my phone).

 

 

 

Work IT reckon there's nothing they can do as everything works except for my home wifi so they say it is an issue with the ISP. 2 degrees support have had me reset the router, do a factory reset, update the modem software to the latest version. I've also tried changing the DNS to the google one using DNSv4 and DNSv6 (following a suggestion from a friend). None of these have made any difference.

 

 

 

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help. I will run out of data soon so would very much appreciate your wisdom and guidance on the matter. Ask me any questions.

 

PS there is no VPN in use.

 

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  #3122211 31-Aug-2023 13:35
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Are you using any VPN software to connect to work?

 


You say you cannot connect to the intranet page which implies that it is not available on the internet.




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  #3122214 31-Aug-2023 13:37
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My IT department have confirmed there is no VPN in use.





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  #3122215 31-Aug-2023 13:37
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It sounds like similar to what a few of us were experiencing with 2D when they did their migrations... not sure if they are still on going or not.

 

@sounddude may be able to give you some direction.

 

 





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  #3122217 31-Aug-2023 13:40
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Your work IT should be able to run a packet capture and see what's happening when you attempt to connect to the VPN. 2degrees doesn't block sites. Even if we did, we wouldn't block those ones. So without some more detailed technical info there's really not much to suggest.





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  #3122224 31-Aug-2023 14:01
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Hey Salty, there is no work VPN. What exactly do I ask my work IT guys to do?





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  #3122225 31-Aug-2023 14:05
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No VPN? Well ... might have to provide your own packet captures then. As I said - we don't block websites, and we certainly wouldn't single those out for it even if we did. So yes maybe @sounddude will need to weigh in.





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  #3122226 31-Aug-2023 14:08
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Can you get to Outlook.com and sign in to your work email?


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  #3122231 31-Aug-2023 14:23
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Tried outlook.com and onedrive.com through edge and chrome just now. Outlook.com loads for ages (about 6mins), then comes up with error page saying "hmmm. can't reach this page - the connection was reset", then after about 5 mins it refreshed and got me in. Now it is slow to respond. Onedrive seems to have an intermittent connection (took ages to load the page, then got me in. Now each file takes a while to load however is slowly and intermittently working.





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  #3122232 31-Aug-2023 14:24
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Guarantee your work changed something.

 

 

 

Has anyone told you to set up a new user account on your device and login to that then test?  That would help narrow it down from a software/profile issue on the device.  Also try accessing the websites in Incognito/Private Browsing mode.


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  #3122233 31-Aug-2023 14:26
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I've checked with multiple other people, including peeps who have 2degrees broadband at home. No issues.

 

 

 

Will try your different user suggestion shortly.

 

 

 

Incognito/private modes don't help.





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  #3122234 31-Aug-2023 14:26
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Does your work mandate some malware security software be installed on your machine that interferes with its connection? When I had to have fortisomething on my PC for work from home, nothing else worked properly till it was removed.





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  #3122236 31-Aug-2023 14:26
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DimitryD:

 

I've checked with multiple other people, including peeps who have 2degrees broadband at home. No issues.

 

 

That doesn't mean they didn't change something that impacted you.


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  #3122237 31-Aug-2023 14:27
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I'll try your different user account suggestion shortly. 

 

 

 

Can now confirm that a different user account hasn't worked.





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  #3122238 31-Aug-2023 14:29
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As someone mentioned before, first clear that this is not due to the network migrations. Sounddude was pinged so let's see.

 

I would put "work" as very low on the list as the services are actually Microsoft/Azure endpoints.





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  #3122239 31-Aug-2023 14:32
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Thanks for weighing in freitasm. Who is this magical sounddude everyone keeps referring to?



@ixsw20 I’ve tried with my iPhone 13 Pro. Intranet doesn’t work, however I can access outlook.com and get into my work account on it using my phone.




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