[fizzyade]

As some of you are aware I've been noticing different issues on and off since the great cable break of last year.

Last week it was Cloudflare timing out, and this morning I've had another issue that has occurred a few times before.

I woke up at 4am to find that the net was inaccessible, I logged into the modem and everything seemed ok, connected to the WAN, GRE tunnel was up and I could ping to the first device outside my network, after which I had 100% packet loss.

Everything looked like it should be working. Checked twitter and sure enough there had been an outage at 1:30 that people were reporting, although that seemed to have been cleared - but I still had no net.

So, I went through the modem gui and rebooted it, after a couple of minutes the network came back up and was fine.

As I said, this is something I've seen a few times recently, something seems unstable somewhere, the fact that the router thought everything was OK but I had no internet is a bit annoying because if I was out and needed access to the network I would have no way of bringing the thing back up without physically being there.

It seems a "recent" problem (yes, I know vague) but the fact it keeps happening and that I don't recall it happening before recent times makes me wonder what is going on.