I put my Hub 3.0 in Modem Mode, but there seems to be a conflict between the 192.168.100.1 address it uses for the admin web page access and the VPN I have to use to access work (I'm a 100% at home worker, even without the COVID thing). If I try to access 192.168.100.1 with the VPN on it times out, and if I turn the VPN on it doesn't. The company must be using 192.168.100.x on it's internal network and routing all of that traffic into the VPN. I can access other machines on my internal network that runs on 192.168.4.x just fine. Apart from begging the IT gods at the company to put the other machines on a 10.x.y.z range does anyone have any ideas?
I think this is it, and there's one in my signature too.
I can't play the isolation game during the week, I need it for work from home and the Virgin wifi is too feeble to give me a decent speed upstairs in my office. I'll play next weekend after the work week.
Quick summary of where we are.
The issues all started and came to a head when I was trying to add a third Powerline endpoint which I could never make work correctly, and I realised I wasn't getting the full speed of the connection anywhere.
I started with a Hub 3 that was intermittently "rebooting" a few times a day. Since then I've had a new fibre "tail" from the end of the fibre at the house into the ONU (the fibre to coax box outside, I think that's what it's called), a new ONU, a new ONU power supply inside, new box on the wall where the coax comes in, new coax from the box to the hub, and a new Hub 4 (after having a new Hub 3 as well). They have also done some fiddling at the cabinet end of the connection, obviously I'm not sure exactly what went on there, I believe my connection was moved to other ports or somesuch.
On my side, I have gone from TP-Link Powerline adapters feeding two Apple Airport Extremes running as access points with the Hub 3 in router mode with 2.4GHz wifi enabled for one device that only had WPS setup, to today where I have a four pod Eero system and the Hub 4 running in modem mode. The Eero connects directly to the Hub4 into the primary pod with a short 1M or so Ethernet cable. One Eero secondary pod has an IKEA Tradfri lighting gateway and a Tado heating gateway connected via Ethernet, one has my wife's Mac Mini, and the final one has a Mac Mini and a MacBook Pro hardwired, all with around 2m Ethernet cables. There are 20 devices in total comprising of computers, Apple TV, Airport Express used as a music streamer, iPads, iPhones and an Apple Watch, plus the Virgin TiVo TV box and a printer. I have the 200M down/20M up service.
The reboots are gone, thankfully, but the junky BQM has remained. I had a final tech visit a while back but to be honest there wasn't much they could look at, it was all new.
We were away from about 1pm on Monday Nov 15th until around mid-afternoon on Thursday Nov 18th, which led to some very interesting BQMs. I'd taken the iPads, the watch and the iPhones with me, and the MacBook Pro was asleep. Something happened around 2am on the 16th and the Mac Mini I use as a media server lost it's IP and went to a 169.x.y.z. When I got home at 4pm on the 18th I woke up the MacBook Pro and fixed the IP address on the server. It's pretty clear when I was there and when I wasn't.
