Websites, apps and services randomly dropping out and needing multiple refreshes to reconnect
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@djkáťo What is the MTU setting on Interfaces > WAN?
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@derelict I left it blank.
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@djkáťo I would set that MTU to about 1450 and see if that helps. You should be able to go all the way up to about 1492 but I would start smaller.
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@derelict I tried from 1450 down to 1300 and nothing improved sadly...
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I've been trying different MTU sizes but they don't change anything sadly. I'm also getting signed out of many applications mid-using them, forgot to mention that symptom. @Derelict
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@djkáťo That doesn't sound like anything a firewall would have anything to do with.
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Do you have a public IPv6 address? pfSense will use it if it can. Clients will usually try to use it if they think they can but if there's some problem with it it will timeout before falling back to v4. That can present symptoms like you describe.
Steve
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@stephenw10 Thanks for the tip! Tried turning IPv6 completely off, but sadly that wasn't it either. Still have very slow loading times and get signed off every 2 hours or so. I had it previously on DHCPv6.
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Then I would try running packet capture whilst trying to connect to something that fails and see what's actually happening.
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It seems to have been a DNS issue. The default settings were set to DNS Resolver after factory reset and first setup, which was probably the culprit. I turned it off and turned on the DNS forwarder instead, and now the internet works better than ever!
@stephenw10 @Derelict Thanks for your help~ I still don't exactly understand how that was an issue, but it works now. Have a nice day :)
