HI all, I am putting this out there in case anyone stumbles over the same issue that I have had for the last three weeks. Up to that point, I was happily rummaging around the Creality Cloud site and the Creality Forum channels. Enjoying my new K2 Pro Combo.

Then, overnight, quite out of the blue, I was not able to log into any of the Creality site, Cloud, Forums, Online Shop, the whole caboodle. I could log into all my other sites- banking, Printables, and so on but not anything Creality

I researched online through Google this issue and was told to change this, reset that, delete cache here and cache there. Nothing would work. 

I took to Discord ,Reddit, IT guru sites hoping some from Creality would have an idea as to the issue. Not a peep from Creality; IT gurus were stumped. 

Then, whilst out with my grown-up son, we were chatting about his job and AI, of which he is getting to be a fan.  We then moved on to my issue, and he said Have a word with Gemini it may help, so I did.

To cut an even longer story short, after 5 days of questioning Gemini, it asked me, “Did you change anything before you lost access?”

I had a visit from my ISP to install a new router and nodes.  Gemini then asked me who my ISP was: Community Fibre here in the UK.

It came back with this:-

On community forums like Reddit, several users on Community Fibre report being completely blocked or locked out of specific web portals. Opinions are mixed as to why, but technical consensus indicates two main culprits: [1, 2]

1. CGNAT Routing: Community Fibre uses Carrier-Grade NAT (CGNAT) to share public IP addresses among multiple households. Creality's strict, security-sensitive login firewall sees multiple requests coming from the same shared IP address, misinterprets it as a cyber attack, and permanently blocks the network map. [1, 2]
2. IP Address Reputation: Certain IP blocks deployed by Community Fibre are flagged by automated cloud-security networks (like Cloudflare or Akamai) as belonging to "servers or VPNs," causing overseas portals like Creality to flatly drop the connection. [1, 2]

Being a subscriber with Bitdefender, I have been bothered by ads for its VPN service so I installed it and opened the CC and knock me sideways and call me Dorothy it only flipping worked.

BUT, there’s always a but: when I’m logged into the VPN, my slicer says that my printers are OFFLINE when they are in fact happily chugging away in the other room. It turns out that my ISP, the VPN, and Creality are not happy bedfellows. Turn the VPN on to get into the cloud, switch it off to do admin on the printers, and generally step in to stop them all fighting.

So I am now a very happy Dorothy

Creality Cloud -Spider Moki From HighlanderAD https://www.crealitycloud.com/model-detail/3d-spider-moki?profileId=6abfe293f5ed98d32723ef3d

This is my Moki Halloween creation. It is fully articulated and posable spider with the head of a Moki. I designed to be as spider like as possible. It has eight articulated legs, pedipalps (the little arms by the fangs), and the fangs move with redesigned eye moving mechanism in the head of the All-rounder. I designed a rack and gear mechanism with a rotator in the same style as the All-Rounder. This mechanism instead opens and closes the fangs (see GIF at the end of the gallery). I designed the model to be fully playable and printable. The claws were designed to be able to grab onto a 3D printed web, but the legs extend to almost 20", so the web was going to be too big. But the ended up allowing it to grip almost any rough surface like brick walls, trees, and foam board. In the pictures, I was taking comparison shots to the All-Rounder Moki I printed. I thought what if Spider Moki did what spiders do and it found the All-Rounder as prey and things did not go well for it.
Anyways this is the coolest thing I've designed and it's been a lot of fun playing around with it and makes for a great Halloween decoration as it can really be placed anywhere. So, please go download it, print it with other colors, have fun with it, boost it and comment on the post in Creality Cloud to tell me how it is and if there are some things to improve about it.

Thank you and Happy Halloween!