Morning. I replied to a similar thread, but perhaps best to start my own. Just looking for clues really... We’re experiencing WAN dropouts. We have BTNet 100mpbs supplied to the Meraki MX68W as wires only, then into a Draytek 3910 for our GW firewall, DHCP. Internet connection drops once a week, maybe 2 weeks, but on the Draytek the WAN shows as still live/connected. It will recovery by itself after a few minutes. But we’re using BT cloud voice, so users lose their calls for a few minutes. I’m suspicious of the Meraki. We had an issue with it a few months back, where randomly one morning we could not get any internet access out from the Draytek at all, but BT could see the Draytek inbound, so stated the connection was fine. If I connected a laptop directly into another port on the Meraki it worked (is that wires only?!). So at a loss I changed the Draytek to that port on the Meraki and it resolved it! I made no other chages to anything on the network/router apart from changing to another port on the Meraki. BT refused to replace Meraki as it was now functioning. I’m pretty certain it’s nothing inside the network, everything on the LAN side still works fine (Database/CRM, file servers etc). BT state no errors on the Meraki/line, but state that we are regularly using all of the bandwidth. I do see 95Mpbs usage reported on the Draytek at various times throughout the day (we have 60+ users). Is that a likely cause for connection instability/dropping temporarily? I can upgrade bandwidth, but reluctant too spend if that's not the problem. What doesn’t sit with me is the period of time between the drops, why only once a week or two.
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