Marking it as always up hides the when it really down.
Before doing that, I would make sure shaping is properly set up. Follow this guide to set up CoDel.
NB: Waveform can be inaccurate with high bandwidth connections. Balance it against another test like Speedtest. Speedtest doesn't give you a grade like Waveform, but it does give averages under load.
That was the issue. I found a post that said to use ctl-a d (looking now that says to disconnect) not to kill the session like ctl-a \ does). Once I cleaned up all the screen connections, I was able to get in and have changed the way I connect and disconnect. Thank you very much!!!
@stephenw10 I have good news and I have bad news. The good news is that I got everything working. The bad news is I don't know what I did. LOL
Thanks for your help. I did check out the things you mentioned and I must have accidentally changed something. If I figure it out, I will post what I think I did.
I can confirm that the switches on the router mr8300 (or the router hardware itself) appear to be what is the cause behind the slowness when hardwired.
So in general there is quite a bit of stuff going on with dhcp in general - also the move to kea version not supporting all features, etc. etc. I would hope they have all the issues worked out by next release.
I found out that it was really kea dhcp not letting go of leases that was the culprit. I have gotten rid of the static mapping.
So it turned out that even under the leases section of the menu the old wifi router was listed as offline and inaccessible. I finally tried clearing my browser's history which did allow the browser to connect but there was a server error on the page. I then downloaded the new app that didn't exist when I bought the old router from Netgate back in 2015 and tried to use it to connect wirelessly to it after having reset it to factory settings. This was able to wake up the router I guess because I was able to access it through the browser finally, after having disconnected the pfsense router. I then set the old router to AP mode and it asked me to hook up the new pfsense router to the internet and then attach the new router to the old one and it worked. Thanks for everyone's help today. I really appreciate it. I guess I should have been using the dumb phone app for the old router a lot sooner but even a couple of months ago it was unnecessary. What a day lol
On a hunch, I swapped the modem for one of the same model from my ISP. Problem is solved & I have GUI access once again. Chalking it up to coincidence with the modem failing at the same time NIC was replaced.
Thanks to everyone for your assistance.
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