Avoid Consumer Routers

Re:Avoid Consumer Routers by whalesalad on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:22PM (#26493311)

I am loving my Edgerouter 4 + Unifi APs. Home network is rock solid. If only I could figure out why my ISP is dropping 20% of packets to Cloudflare DNS.

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Re:Avoid Consumer Routers by blacksmith_tb on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:31PM (#26493444)

Not sure about your ISP, but CenturyLink for me seems to have something against 1.1.1.1, but not 1.0.0.1 though.

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Re:Avoid Consumer Routers by getsauce on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @04:41PM (#26496519)

CenturyLink uses Calix GigaCenter routers which have an embedded http server at 1.1.1.1. Cloudflare calls them out here: https://blog.cloudflare.com/fixing-reachability-to-1-1-1-1-g...

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Re:Avoid Consumer Routers by whalesalad on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:44PM (#26493631)

I am on WOW. It seems like the connection to Chicago is the problem and that is where most of my traffic goes (I am in Detroit) but requests to MSP are fine. I notice similar issues when loading images via the ORD datacenter.

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Re:Avoid Consumer Routers by selectodude on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @12:57PM (#26493823)

Cloudflare has been having some weird issues with Chicago lately. I had to outright ditch them recently and switch to OpenDNS because my internet would just stop working due to their DNS failing.

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Re:Avoid Consumer Routers by whalesalad on Wednesday March 17, 2021 @01:55PM (#26494672)

Huh, that’s a helpful datapoint. I figured it was just WOW customers because we have been having frequent outages recently. I am on Level3 now since after running some benchmarks it appears to be the fastest for me.

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