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Other manufacturers / Re: TP-Link EX820v v1.0 firmwa...

Last post by nowster - Feb 11, 2025, 23:00:52

The router supports TR-069 remote management.

Occasionally ISPs have got this wrong and not blocked traffic to the TR-069 ports correctly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TR-069

A forum I help out with has recently been attacked with a DDoS from what seem to be mostly compromised Brazilian domestic routers. Difficult to block, too, as they never used the same IP address more than twice. At the peak they were sending out 50 complex database requests per second. Not great for a single small server.

#2

IDNet Help / Re: Uboss VoIP Service

Last post by Postal - Feb 11, 2025, 09:31:24

The alternative I was looking at is the FritzBox.  There are quite a few on fleabay, mostly I suspect ex-Zen models.

If you are in the UK, Amazon UK list them as new supply (https://www.amazon.co.uk/fritzbox/s?k=fritzbox) so you avoid any possible problems with the Zen updating.  Reported elsewhere on the internet that there were huge problems with a recent Zen update to the firmware which it was impossible to row back.

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Other manufacturers / Re: TP-Link EX820v v1.0 firmwa...

Last post by Postal - Feb 11, 2025, 09:22:28

The router supports TR-069 remote management.  Maybe firmware updates are being done in the background while IDNet are remotely configuring and managing the device via ACS (Auto-Configuration Server).

Presumably you could check with IDNet whether that is the case.

#4

IDNet Help / Re: Outage last night?

Last post by Bill - Feb 11, 2025, 08:52:40

I get this every now and then, I suspect it's Zen playing around with backhaul routing (FTTC here).

I don't do anything that's latency-sensitive so I just ignore it. After a while (anything from a few days to some weeks) it goes back to normal

#5

IDNet Help / Re: Outage last night?

Last post by zappaDPJ - Feb 10, 2025, 19:30:14

Perhaps stop poking the bear and give it a chance to settle down?

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IDNet Help / Re: Outage last night?

Last post by Simon - Feb 10, 2025, 17:25:12

My speed has now reverted back to what it was, at 108Mbps, but the latency is still up on what it was yesterday.

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IDNet Help / Re: Outage last night?

Last post by Simon - Feb 10, 2025, 15:27:29

I've dropped the connection two or three times since then - to disconnect then reconnect the UPS box, and once to reboot the system.

So the latency has increased, but stayed the same since the first reconnection last night.

#8

IDNet Help / Re: Outage last night?

Last post by zappaDPJ - Feb 10, 2025, 14:27:04

I think you can disregard the outage, it's not uncommon for that time in the morning.

Assuming you dropped the line to connect the UPS at around 5.45pm yesterday it appears the resync has given you a degraded connection which is the opposite of what I would expect.

I have no idea why that would happen, perhaps it's something to do with routing

#9

IDNet Help / Re: Outage last night?

Last post by Simon - Feb 10, 2025, 12:21:04

I've now reconnected the UPS to the internal fiber box (ONT?), and as well as the latency still being higher than it was, I've now lost about 30Mbps off my speed (down from 108Mbps to 78Mbps on Speedtest.net). 

Should I just leave things to settle for a day or so, or is this UPS backup box looking like a bad idea?

Comments welcome! 

#10

IDNet Help / Re: Outage last night?

Last post by Simon - Feb 10, 2025, 10:59:41

I'm back on this morning.  Looks like it came back just before 3am, according to my TBB BQM. 

But my latency has gone from about 5ms to nearly 20ms.  This actually coincided with me connecting the UPS backup box, and I assumed that was the reason for it (noise, perhaps?), but my latency is still up having disconnected the backup box.  What could be causing this and is it something to worry about?

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