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    Intermittent Internet troubleshooting

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      lorio
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      What is your WAN connected to? Could the problem be with that?

      You said you upgraded from 2.2.6. Have you tried saving.your settings and do a clean install of 2.3?

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        xman111
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        i switched the WAN to pretty much every NIC i had.  I just did a fresh install of 2.3 and everything is working for now but before it took sometimes minutes, sometimes hours, sometimes  days to go down.  have my fingers crossed.  I was just hoping to get some trouble shooting techniques to try to figure WTF is happening. My kids are killing me with the internet going up and down all day long :)

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          Guest
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          Is 2.3 available now. I only see 2.2.6.

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            xman111
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            it is just a snap shot,  not the full supported release.

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              xman111
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              back to screwed again.. Can't believe how unstable this is.  I thought that 2.3 fixed the problem.  Internet just goes down, only way to get it back up is a reboot.  NOTHING in the logs at all.  WTF can I do to fix this?  I want to chuck the whole thing out the f'n window.

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                jahonix
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                And your WAN is what: DHCP, PPPoE, static - all that connected to a switch/modem/router/…  ?

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                  xman111
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                  wan is dhcp, connected directly to Nic.  then Lan nic connected to small 5 port switch.  haven't even got openVPN setup yet,  trying to keep it very simple to get it stable.

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                    A Former User
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                    You mentioned Netflix and video so understand this may be a total stab in the dark but check this post out.
                    https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=109323.0

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                      jahonix
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                      @xman111:

                      wan is dhcp, connected directly to Nic.

                      To NIC of what?
                      Please provide some more infos for us to get the picture. Right now it's shooting in the dark.

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                        xman111
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                        here is a map of my network in it's simplest form..

                        https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4IAV3fk9yIYT3VUQ3pzeFFEbWM/view?usp=sharing

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                          Abhishek
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                          when u have connectivity issue  try to ping the following

                          PFsense LAN ? success /Fail
                          PFsense WAN  ?
                          Cisco LAN ?
                          CISCO WAN
                          8.8.8.8
                          www.google.com

                          2.3-RC (amd64)
                          built on Mon Apr 04 17:09:32 CDT 2016
                          FreeBSD 10.3-RELEASE
                          Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz

                          darkstat 3.1.2_1
                          Lightsquid 3.0.3_1
                          mailreport 3.0_1
                          pfBlockerNG 2.0.9_1  
                          RRD_Summary 1.3.1_2
                          snort 3.2.9.1_9  
                          squid 0.4.16_1  
                          squidGuard 1.14_1
                          syslog-ng 1.1.2_2

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                            adelaespriella
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                            Was there ever a solution to this problem? I'm experiencing the same thing.

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                              xman111
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                              honestly,  I had Shaw come out to replace the modem but it was working pretty good before then.  I am up and running fine now with the network card I thought was a problem.  I honestly think the problem,  at least for me was 2.3 and using dns resolver.

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                                adelaespriella
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                                Glad to see you had a fix. I changed motherboard and still nothing. if I connect ISP to my PC everything works great. as soon as I put pfSense in the middle the problems start.  :'(

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                                  xman111
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                                  ate you running 2.2.6?

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                                    adelaespriella
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                                    2.3 would you recommend downgrading?

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                                      xman111
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                                      I'm no expert but it looks like there are some issues with it.  it would rule it out.  2.2.6 is tried and true.

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                                        adelaespriella
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                                        Well. Tried going down to 2.2.6 and no good. tried 2.2.3 still same thing. Tried 2 different Hardware and still same thing. but if I connect the ISP directly to the PC everything works fine. This is really frustrating.

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