I have been using SoftBank Hikari and I’ve got a BB Unit and that ONU. These 2: [https://otegal.jp/net/wp-content/uploads/hikari-softbank-bb-unit-otegal-net.png](https://otegal.jp/net/wp-content/uploads/hikari-softbank-bb-unit-otegal-net.png)
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I’ve literally got these 2 things in the same room where I have all of my devices. The distance between the BB Unit and my laptop is about 60cm – 70 cm. There’s nothing in between the BB Unit and my devices.
My devices sometimes (very randomly) can’t access internet and this happens throughout the day. On some days, this issue doesn’t happen. I believe that there’s some usage throttling going on. Even my smart phone gets this issue from time to time. This mostly happens on one of my Laptop. I use this laptop on different connections as well and have never faced this issue.
I have gone through some of the older discussions on this sub and looks like SoftBank hikari has some IPv6 plus and I’m wondering if this causing issues for my various devices.
Has anyone been facing this issue? I’m planning on buying my own Router and connecting it with the ONU and use that instead. Still I’m not sure which router to go with and any recommendations would be great.
I’ve also noticed that whenever a device is downloading a lot of content, this issue occurs pretty much every 1-2 minutes. For example, When I’m downloading software updates, this happens. And sometimes, when I’m just playing songs on YouTube music, the device can’t use internet. The signal is full, the device is connected to the network and still, I can’t use internet.
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did this just start “today” for you? I’ve been having weird ipv6 issues here, same thing where traffic on v6 randomly stops and recovers 5-10 seconds later.
What about download speed? When I download something from epic game store, steam or another online service if my download speed is more than 3 mbps, the download speed will drop to 0 and restart.
It’s not steady at all…
I have this exact same setup and I’m going absolutely insane by how unstable the internet is with. We’re on a lengthy contract with them so my wife was advise to not pay attention to the instability. It’s a feature not a bug.
That’s not what throttling is, if they throttle you, you’ll just start getting slow download speeds, they don’t just cut you off randomly from normal speed internet.
IMy colleague had similar issue (he’s using VDSL 100M for 6yrs) and seeing interruption every hour (so his online game disconnect regularly), called SoftBank to replace the device and only had little improvement. Finally he pay for early termination and jumped to KDDI Au which solves the problem.
wish i could help you. i used these devices for 4 years and never had any issues with them. anywhere in my house.
This was happening to us all the time. I bought googles router and never had a problem since.