Sounds like a broadcast storm to me. What is the topology of your network? Routers at each tower, VLANs, etc.?
Are you filtering multicast and broadcast traffic at the CPE/customer premises? photograph Daniel White Co-Founder phone: +1 (702) 470-2770 direct:+1 (702) 470-2766 > Jan-GAMs <mailto:[email protected]> > June 17, 2021 at 23:47 > We had a strange outage on one of our networks yesterday. At first we > thought it was one customer. The symptom was very low to non-existent > internet traffic. The complaint was my internet is not working! > > Upon testing I found that the complaining customer had for a speed > test about 0.14kbps for a speed to it's AP. So I went to their AP and > tested the speed back at them, it was about the same unusually slow > speed. Then I tested that AP to another AP and that speed was about > the same slow speed. So then I tested another customer and another > and then ended up testing just about everyone in the whole network. > Everyone was operating at an unusually slow speedtest to any other > device of about 0.1kbps to 0kbps. The whole network was down and yet > the UISP was indicating everyone was up and operating with even some > traffic in the 6-10 Mbps range which I'm sure was fake traffic as none > of the devices tested would pass anything above a few kbps. > > A reboot of every device resolved the issue. > > Our gear is Ubiquiti and I'm wondering has anyone else using Ubiquiti > been experiencing anything like what I just described? Is there a > known cause? > >
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