Random Disconnections
I have been having short random disconnections to my downstairs network for some time, I have investigated as follows.
Network setup - Upstairs Broadband router (Draytek) connected to 8 port unmanaged switch and a PA8010P V2 1300Mbps.
Downstairs PA8010P 1300Mbps connected to 8 port unmanaged switch and RyZen 3400G computer. Both PA8010P V2 are straight into sockets.
The wiring from the upstairs socket is a 16amp Radial into it's own mcb and downstairs is a 32 amp ring main into an mcb on the same side of the consumer unit.
I purchased a small program which pings three outside servers (Google, Level4, OpenDns) at user set intervals and logs the results of any loss of feedback from the servers.
First I ran it on the Ryzen downstairs computer. These are just short examples, I ran the computers for 24 hours with the same but longer results.
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20/11/2019 19:36:03 Log Start
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Failure Start Length
20/11/2019 20:04:17 0:00:23
20/11/2019 23:06:13 0:00:34
21/11/2019 02:01:07 0:00:57
21/11/2019 02:29:56 0:00:35
21/11/2019 04:04:58 0:00:37
21/11/2019 07:55:55 0:00:22
21/11/2019 08:24:02 0:00:45
21/11/2019 08:41:19 0:00:54
21/11/2019 13:50:20 0:06:09
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21/11/2019 18:23:48 Log End
Monitor Duration 22:47:44
Failure Summary:
Count 9
Total Downtime 0:11:20
% Downtime 0.83
Minimum Length 0:00:22
Maximum Length 0:06:09
Average Length 0:01:15
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Now I connected a laptop running the program directly into the upstairs 8 port switch
With exactly the same program settings there were no disconnections.
I then set one of the pings on the program on the Ryzen (downstairs) to ping the network gateway every 1 second
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21/11/2019 19:13:45 Log Start
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Failure Start Length
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22/11/2019 16:09:58 Log End
Monitor Duration 20:56:12
Failure Count 0
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No disconnections.
If I run a computer directly into the upstairs network before the PA8010P no disconnections.
If I ping the network Gateway every 1 second no disconnections.
The mode in the Utility program is set not to sleep.
If you draw the same conclusions as I do that one or both of the PA8010P are taking a nap on the quiet would you please concoct some way of fixing the problem or if you have any other ideas please put them forward.