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on 10-22-2023 03:21 PM
Is anyone else occasionally getting a 'connection down' error from Chrome (or 'Secure Connection Failed' from Firefox) when changing page - if I hit refresh it works fine. At first I wondered if it was the site I was using but have noticed it on multiple different major websites over the past couple of months and not noticed it from other locations where I don't use Three Broadband so does seem to be related to the router/connection (this is via wired Ethernet too, so not a WiFi problem). I've tried changing DNS server in case that helps but no difference.
It mainly seems to happen when trying to first load a site or (annoyingly) at checkout when a different site is being loaded as part of the checkout process. It certainly doesn't happen everytime but does happen with reasonable frequency. I've also noticed I often get it when trying to pull/push from/to Github too and have to do so a number of times for it to work (browsing the Github website works fine).
on 05-24-2024 07:15 PM
IIRC when I first got my router,it took either 24 or 48hours from requesting it to being able to access your favourite content 🙂
on 05-24-2024 07:22 PM
My favourite content 🤣
I don't think they should have any restriction at the ISP level it should be something at the router level. Like Eero, Adguard, and PiHole. But we digress.
on 05-23-2024 07:22 PM
Interestingly, this is redirecting even though my setting is set to allow adult content..
on 05-23-2024 07:41 PM
Changed to three.co.uk APN and it works again??..
05-23-2024 09:45 AM - edited 05-23-2024 09:46 AM
I'm still seeing a lot of issues. I'm mostly struck by the range of sites affected (amazon, wikipedia, IMDB, steam, AWS S3, facebook, github) and how variable things are for individual sites.
e.g.:
Out of the 114 test sites, sometimes only 8 sites (~7%) are affected during a test (~7 hours) - othertimes up to 20 sites (~18%) are affected.
21 May (AM)
May 21 (PM)
May 22 day (AM)
May 22 (PM - afternoon)
May 22 (PM -night)
05-22-2024 11:52 PM - edited 05-22-2024 11:52 PM
After installing linux to windows and trying @wgen s script, most sites are passing the test (only 1 I know of that is failing - however the issue is definitely still there as getting some pages still failing to load - it is fairly late however so maybe increases the success rate. I also tried a debrid file download and still getting exact same issue (chrome loops forever downloading from start, reports Failed if use Firefox at end of file but hit retry several times and it eventually says complete (without redownloading the whole thing)
Will try to test more tomorrow evening
on 05-22-2024 09:14 PM
No change here though issues do seem less frequent. Ironically the only issue I had today was the EOF while trying to get to ProtonVPN to set up a new virtual machine for testing
on 05-22-2024 08:57 PM
This has now been running for 6+ hours, looks like the web site errors have gone away:
https://www.jdoqocy.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://www.topcashback.co.uk Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://retail.santander.co.uk Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://github.com Req: 2094 Fail: 1 SSL Err: 0
https://raw.githubusercontent.com Req: 2094 Fail: 1 SSL Err: 0
https://ghcr.io Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://www.skyscanner.net Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://www.netomnia.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://diy.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://duckduckgo.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://inews.co.uk Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://news.sky.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://visualstudio.microsoft.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://new.three.co.uk Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://wordpress.org Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://en.wikipedia.org Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://commons.wikimedia.org Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://vk.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://de.wikipedia.org Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://itunes.apple.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://youtube.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://facebook.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://instagram.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://twitter.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://pinterest.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://play.google.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://reddit.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://amazon.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://microsoft.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://imdb.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://linkedin.com Req: 2074 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
https://nytimes.com Req: 2094 Fail: 0 SSL Err: 0
The two fails where timeouts when I ran my system out of RAM.
Although I now have a new error where I've been unable to connect to a Google Colab instance all day, without using a VPN...
on 05-22-2024 09:00 PM
Have a dummies guide on how to do this and I'll set it for my own where I have the issues? 🙂
05-22-2024 08:53 PM - edited 05-22-2024 08:59 PM
So I just had a slightly different test/problem likely from the same reason. A game I play, DCS World, had its first big update out today since I started having the problems, so went to run the DCS Updater, which is its own dedicated exe. This errored multiple times with the following message
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00000.000 === Log opened UTC 2024-05-22 19:47:47
00000.035 INFO : DCS_Updater/2.16.3.18 (Windows NT 10.0.19045; Win64; en-GB)
00000.035 INFO : src-id: <removed-justincaseitssensitive>, lib-id: <removed-justincaseitssensitive>
00000.035 INFO : cmdline: "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta\bin\DCS_updater.exe" update
00000.069 STATUS: Initializing...
00000.070 INFO : basedir: C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World OpenBeta
00000.070 INFO : variant: openbeta
00000.070 INFO : DCS/2.9.4.53990 (x86_64; EN; WORLD,A-10C_2,SUPERCARRIER,HEATBLUR_F-14,FA-18C,FC3,KA-50,A-10C,MARIANAISLANDS_terrain,PERSIANGULF_terrain,SYRIA_terrain,AH-64D,UH-1H,AJS37,RAZBAM_AV8BNA,RAZBAM_M-2000C,BALTICDRAGON_FA18C_RAVEN_ONE_campaign,NEVADA_terrain,F-16C,THECHANNEL_terrain,WWII-ARMOUR,SPITFIRE-MKIX,MOSQUITO-FBMKVI,P47D30,BALTICDRAGON_A10C_IRON_FLAG_PART1_campaign,KA-50_3,MIG-21BIS,MI-24P,P-51D,MIG-15BIS,F-86F,F-5E,BF-109K4,FW-190D9,FW-190A8,CAUCASUS_terrain,NORMANDY_terrain,MI-8MTV2,POLYCHOPSIM_SA342,RAZBAM_F-15E)
00000.070 INFO : branch: openbeta
00000.073 STATUS: Checking for updates...
00000.450 INFO : Got reply from www.digitalcombatsimulator.com
00000.500 ERROR: Conection to server 'www.digitalcombatsimulator.com' failed: SSL connect error
00000.500 ERROR: www.digitalcombatsimulator.com replied HTTP -1
00000.501 STATUS: SSL connect error
00002.089 === Log closed.
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The last few lines being the key thing - The only way I got the updater to work in the end was having to go to the games webpage to get the webpage to load first in the browser, before the updater would then finally run, where it it fine and currently downloading at around 600-700mbps