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Orcvader said:
Can you try torrenting on system B and see if system A starts noticing packet loss? Definitely not something I noticed, no experience with Overwatch but with other multiplayer games I don't see any when one system is torrenting. I'm also using the MX42BF-UK, most things hardwired. WiFi is off as I'm using a Unifi setup.
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I'll see if I can get set up on B and try that at some point.

You have a different router, I have a WHW03 V2. Your one is newer I think.
 
Armadillo said:
I'll see if I can get set up on B and try that at some point.

You have a different router, I have a WHW03 V2. Your one is newer I think.
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Ah. You mentioned Linksys Velop but not the model so I assumed it was the same as mine, my bad. There's a newer one coming soon as well which will replace my model.

In that case it could be the router.
 
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Orcvader said:
Ah. You mentioned Linksys Velop but not the model so I assumed it was the same as mine, my bad. There's a newer one coming soon as well which will replace my model.

In that case it could be the router.
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I assumed velop was the model, didn't realise it was a brand/range, until you mentioned the model number.

I'll still give it a try on the other machine. Not a huge issue, but seems weird the router would drop the odd packet, but only with torrents.
 
Armadillo said:
I assumed velop was the model, didn't realise it was a brand/range, until you mentioned the model number.

I'll still give it a try on the other machine. Not a huge issue, but seems weird the router would drop the odd packet, but only with torrents.
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You could reduce the amount of connections the client makes, when I first tried to torrent on my PC in my sig, it was dropping packets and reducing connections fixed that, although a later network driver finally patched that up. Not exactly the same since yours seem more on the network side instead of a single PC but it might work.
 
jonneymendoza said:
Just read this earlier this morning.

Why are they cutting jobs when the demand is there?
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My guess is they've seen the industry direction and want to have a bigger pot to sit on and do a "wait it out and see" approach to see how things develop, they already have things in hand for London for example. And in that case, having a bigger pot on hand means you can take your time and not do anything rash or spend needlessly. They can likely pick up again once things are suitable to start up en-masse again. But that is of course going to be not ideal for those who were waiting on them to arrive. However, given it's not just them downsizing in this area, likely many others will be doing the same.

So anyone who is still waiting, fingers crossed you guys get covered and can get started before (they all) go into hibernation mode for the time being.
 
That's bad news for a friend of mine. He has been waiting for CF to come to him, has had the generic "register interest, coming soon" for ages. Doubt it will come now as there has been no work at all where he is.

A line has to be drawn somewhere, but he is only 5min walk away from me, different postcode though.
 
Armadillo said:
That's bad news for a friend of mine. He has been waiting for CF to come to him, has had the generic "register interest, coming soon" for ages. Doubt it will come now as there has been no work at all where he is.

A line has to be drawn somewhere, but he is only 5min walk away from me, different postcode though.
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They've installed the hardware on tele poles on my parents road about 8 months ago. Still no information on when it'll go live. Astounding.
 
I joined CF just over a month ago and was originally on a CGNAT connection but they have now moved me over but since the move my router no longer gets a IPv6 WAN address and also no longer offers any v6 IP addresses to any home kit.

I queried this with them and their support person called and stated that it was one or the other. Tried asking why on CGNAT I had both but was told that is the way it is.

Can anybody confirm if it has to be either IPv4 or v6, don’t really understand why it’s one of the other.
 
I think it might be because they need to manually move your connection to a non CGNAT one but mostly people are after IPv4 address for that. So you get moved to that; had you been OK with IPv6 then the CGNAT would have worked automatically (I think, in theory thinking about it anyway).

Someone more knowledgable with networks probably will be able to give a more dinifitve answer.
 
IAmATeaf said:
I joined CF just over a month ago and was originally on a CGNAT connection but they have now moved me over but since the move my router no longer gets a IPv6 WAN address and also no longer offers any v6 IP addresses to any home kit.

I queried this with them and their support person called and stated that it was one or the other. Tried asking why on CGNAT I had both but was told that is the way it is.

Can anybody confirm if it has to be either IPv4 or v6, don’t really understand why it’s one of the other.
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That's weird, I joined before they started CGNATing new customers, and I have both dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. I don't see any reason why it would lock IPv6 away. Are you using a custom DNS by any chance? I found setting one in the Linksys router for some weird reason stops you from getting an IPv6.

@DeltaUK was on CGNAT and got CF to move them off, could check with them if they're still getting an IPv6 address.
 
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Orcvader said:
I tried as soon as I got CF, setting your own DNS does indeed disable IPv6. In the end I had to change the DNS on the client side instead.
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I'm using nextdns on the linksys router, with the pro plan. Everything works fine and so does ipv6. Dns over tls would be nice but that would require a different router. Lucky enough even being able to change the ipv4 dns as on other routers it's very limited.
 
Noticed yesterday some things weren't loading properly, either very slowly or not at all. One example was the Deliveroo app, while the site in the browser was fine, the Android app was stuck on the splash screen. Using a custom DNS didn't work, but enabling VPN did.

Also noticed on the PC some sites didn't detect I have IPv6. This made me decide to try disable IPv6 on the router and boom, it fixed all connectivity issues.

Based on previous comments... Is CF fiddling around with IPv6? Hoping it'll go back to normal after a few days.
 
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