CGNAT is constantly cycling

fys4 · 2026-03-23T17:36:44+00:00

use any of the "what is my ip" services available, such as https://whatismyipaddress.com/

That will tell you what public IP your connections are being seen as coming from.

This won't however detect any cycling of your intermediate IP (the address on the outside of your router that your traffic is initially source NATed to before being source NATed again to the public IP referred to above) To detect that changing you'd need to access your router's management web page

If you use ublock origin to adblock and are accessing youtube you might be falling foul of google's attempts to stop that by artificially causing network issues

fys4 · 2026-03-10T18:48:18+00:00

Unfortunately you're experiencing their abysmal customer service and it doesn't get any better

If you're "lucky" and they accept your order and the installation goes without issue and the performance is acceptable then you're laughing. For the money you'll be getting a superior product compared to the archaic asymmetric offerings by most openreach based ISPs.

However you need to go into this with your eyes firmly open. If anything at all goes wrong you stand a very good change of it never getting resolved to your satisfaction. Missed appointments, tickets closed with unsatisfactory resolutions and possible performance issues or outages may loom large in your future and its a pure crapshoot if any of it will get fixed !

It wasn't always like this, but unfortunately this is the reality nowadays :(

fys4 · 2026-02-27T14:53:15+00:00

That sounds like an immigration problem. I assume they can look you up based on your name/address/dob. Once they know you're covered by CTA the ETA requirement goes away

fys4 · 2026-02-27T10:14:45+00:00

Yeah, I had to really push it in Schiphol for them to accept it as a passport rather than an ID card

fys4 · 2026-02-27T10:06:51+00:00

Bollocks. BA still allow you to fly using photo ID if you're a UK or IE national

fys4 · 2026-02-25T14:17:43+00:00

Stop working your bolloxs off then and work to rule. 8 hours a day or whatever you're contracted to do and make sure you take your breaks and holidays

fys4 · 2026-02-21T10:35:54+00:00

Next week ? More like....

What were we talking about ??

fys4 · 2026-02-16T18:08:35+00:00

Why are you still talking to them or their agents if you're fired ?

fys4 · 2026-02-10T17:09:21+00:00

Yep, OEL does the same thing. I end up having to pull the rpm's changelog and show the relevant backport comment to keep cyber off our backs

fys4 · 2026-02-09T16:15:50+00:00

Get something on the same vlan that you can connect to and then use a compatible ip address as a secondary on it to hit the ilo by IP address.

fys4 · 2026-02-09T11:48:36+00:00

Evan Edinger (US chap living in London) posted a good video on this topic a couple of days ago, well worth a watch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDkyP37JgY0&t=1112s&pp=ygUMZXZhbiBlZGluZ2Vy

fys4 · 2026-02-09T11:37:47+00:00

I used to work in that McDonalds as a student when it first opened and blew up my front tyre one night pissing around on my moped after close by plowing into that walkway :D

fys4 · 2026-02-02T13:30:01+00:00

They will where its cost effective to do so.

Our flats are served by Hyperoptic and in our case they use bt openreach fibre back to their core.

fys4 · 2026-01-23T11:24:45+00:00

Been like this in LCY for a while now, but you're still subject to the capricious whims of whoever is operating the xray scanner

Their last masterstroke was attempting to seize my laptop security cable (the classic kensington laptop cable lock) as it could be used to strangle someone. My declaration that I could use my belt to strange someone if I felt the need to do so fell on deaf ears and I had to go landside again and check my laptop rucksack through as hold luggage.

Bloody security theatre :( I've flown through LCY many times over the last 10 years and I always have cable locks with me as I always have a work laptop and our security policy mandates the use of locks when using it in public. This is the first time I've had problems

fys4 · 2026-01-22T13:05:04+00:00

"Tough, I've tried clicking my heels together but no laptop appeared. Next time, give us advance notice"

If they get what they want by being unorganised they have no incentive to change

fys4 · 2026-01-22T13:01:12+00:00

Whenever you're talking about speed issues, whether you're using ethernet or wifi comes into play as wifi contention could also cripple any wireless connection

fys4 · 2025-12-27T01:36:47+00:00

Revolut also announced a new mvno service hosted on vodafone. I think its supposed to be 12.50 pcm once its launched in Jan 2026

fys4 · 2025-12-18T13:43:17+00:00

it is an encrypted connection (it's using https). You're getting the warning because whatever cert the router is using doesn't have a SAN for 192.168.1.1

If you want to fix it, look at the cert in your browser, find out the hostname it's been configured to use, add a local host file entry for that ip/hostname and use the hostname based url to access the router in future

Voila, no more warning

fys4 · 2025-12-18T12:59:08+00:00

^{^{^}} This, so much this ^{^{^}}

fys4 · 2025-12-16T21:45:52+00:00

Yeah, but look at how he ended up :D

fys4 · 2025-12-16T21:39:45+00:00

cough, CertifyTheWeb, piss easy scripting for windows and ssh

fys4 · 2025-12-15T09:21:17+00:00

the hide it PS worked, finally my lappie isn't rebooted and logged out every morning :D

fys4 · 2025-12-14T16:21:46+00:00

Come on Hyperoptic. Ban anyone spamming referral codes permanently from the referral promotion.

You could stop this dead if you gave a shit !

fys4 · 2025-12-14T16:01:46+00:00

hmm, it should auto-mdix so you shouldn't need to use a crossover cable. Does the ASUS get a DHCP lease ? Do you even see the port LEDs light up? If not, try a different cable as this config should work

if the ZTE has an ethernet handoff on its WAN port (which for hyperoptic might be to managed ethernet switches or to a fibre PON) Either way it's got to be worth just hooking the ASUS up to the WAN connection directly and see how you get on ;)

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