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?

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> 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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