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Dangerous Dave said:
If they are using DHCP might need the lease to be released or wait for it to expire to switch to a new router. Would expect if you were on to support they would have released it manually or told you the expiry time. Spoofing the mac address would get round that aswell.
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Their DHCP lease time is only an hour apparently :P used to be 7 days but they reduced it for "various network side factors" they told me. (I had a separate issue with something and support mentioned that!)
 
Not sure how I'd spoof MAC on ASUS ET12, will take a look.

I turned off the router/ONT for a couple of hours early and problem persisted

Certainly nothing wrong with connection, just plugged eero back in and worked straight away!

So to me it now seems to be 2 outcomes

1. ASUS ET12 is borked out of the box (unlikely)
2. There is some kinda lock on the MAC of eero to Static IP
 
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@HEADRAT Unlikely related but since YouFibre probably have older ET12 stock they won't have upgraded firmware. Asus over the past 2 months have been udpating routers due to a massive vulnerability allowing anyone to infect their router with malware, take down the wifi radios etc. Threads at SNB: https://www.snbforums.com/threads/malware-damaging-asus-routers.92752/

Do not connect the ET12 to the internet. Go here on the Eero: https://www.asus.com/uk/networking-...elpdesk_bios?model2Name=ASUS-ZenWiFi-Pro-ET12

Grab 3.0.0.4.388_24610 firmware then only connect the ET12 to a PC with LAN. Upload that firmware to the Asus and flash. Atleast this way if the engineer does fix it your ET12 won't automatically be infected with malware. You kind of dodged a bullet by it not working tbh.
 
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First thing I did was update firmware, level 1 made me setup static IP through router interface, it should have been just DHCP, what a waste of time I’m ******!
 
HEADRAT said:
Not sure how I'd spoof MAC on ASUS ET12, will take a look.

I turned off the router/ONT for a couple of hours early and problem persisted

Certainly nothing wrong with connection, just plugged eero back in and worked straight away!

So to me it now seems to be 2 outcomes

1. ASUS ET12 is borked out of the box (unlikely)
2. There is some kinda lock on the MAC of eero to Static IP
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There is.
Static IP gets locked to your router MAC and if you plug a different router in you need support to refresh the MAC lock their end.
Doesn’t happen on dynamic IP but static your connection won’t work until it sees the MAC it expects or you get them to reset and lock to your new one.
 
All working now, found a tech who new what they were doing, I was 99% sure the the EERO MAC was locked to Static IP!
 
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Yup, that and the ASUS ET12 need to be set to DHCP rather than have the WAN details set manually via the UI

IP
Subnet
Default Gateway

as instructed by their tech.
 
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Anybody recommend a good USENET provider that can saturate 2000Mbps, my current provider doesn't seem to quite cut the mustard!
 
HEADRAT said:
Anybody recommend a good USENET provider that can saturate 2000Mbps, my current provider doesn't seem to quite cut the mustard!
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Who are you with at the moment? Are you looking for a main or backup block(s)? Do you have a preferred backbone and/or takedown method (DMCA v NTD)? Personally for high speed I'd be looking at a higher tier Omicron (Newshosting) seller like Newsgroup Ninja (they do deals, search /r/usenet and don't just pay the price on providers' sites!). Giganews/Supernews (the latter is the same service but cheaper) are also fast, but usually take down faster. Tweak (NL, TLD) are reliable but not as fast ime. You need to balance your backbones between your main and block(s). Try this backbone checker and this current Usenet backbone map for pointers. Been using Usenet for over 20 years, holler if you need anything.
 
I’ve been an easynews customer since the late 90s and it has served me very well! They offer deals fairly often, and they have a decent UI for searching for things that Servarr can’t find. I’m currently paying £45 a year for unlimited access.
 
Well it all seems to have settle down now

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Just an update/review. I've had YouFibre 2000 for 6 months now. I came from Zen. I've got zero complaints. No downtime, ping the same as Zen, the router is fine. Literally runs perfectly. Very glad I swapped
 
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Hmmm more teething issues, seems like I'm down to 1000/1000 again. I'm wondering if there is some kinda 'profile' on their end which keeps knocking me back as this was setup on EERO which they use with their 1000/1000 service, I'm on the 2000/2000 service with the now supplied ASUS ET12 router.

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My Public IP is in the 88.97.253.xxx range so I appear not to be using CGNAT
 
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That's not the 1000/1000 service as it would top out at 940/940 ish, it's not the public IP for CGNAT you need to check it's your WAN IP if it starts with 100 your on CGNAT.

With the faster gig plus services you can start hit limits on the speed test servers and so on, better to not worry too much about the speed tests unless you are seeing issues when downloading.
 
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Yeah well something isn't right, I don't really trust 'SPEEDTEST' but previously I was able to get this through USENET

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Now it's

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which kinda lines up with the 'SPEEDTEST' results.

Even If I enabled 2 x USENET feeds it won’t increase above the above, something isn’t adding up!
 
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