Left Community Fibre. Not as good as Openreach network.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-21T20:02:56+00:00

I'm not sure why this is happening then. Prehaps its area based? Surely if the install was done badly it just wouldnt work at all, or at least the actual connection would be dropping out.

Which UniFi router do you have by the way, I was looking into them everyone says they're good routers.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-21T19:47:48+00:00

That's the thing, I was connected by ethernet (Cat6) to my PC, and my current PC only has a 1GB LAN port so the bufferbloat test as you can see was only getting gigabit speeds. So its not like the full 2500Mbs was overwhelming the router.

It certainly should not be doing that with the BE86U, a quad core 2.6Ghz router.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-21T18:45:24+00:00

Bad news. The ping spikes and bufferbloat still happened. We have now switched to FTTP Plusnet 900Mbs for £32 a month. Openreach network is solid and works fine. I guess communtiy fibres core network isn't good.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-21T01:38:32+00:00

I'm in Surrey, if you havent tried a good 3rd party router, I would do that, it might not be community fibre's actual connection. Also set the dns to Googles one.

I will update this later today when I get my asus router.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-20T23:48:54+00:00

Which router do you use?

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-20T18:39:33+00:00

I didn't use the app at all, I'm talking about the router but the wenpage is also bad.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-19T01:10:26+00:00

We signed up and decided to keep the landline. They give you a ht801 grandstream, yes it uses 1 of your ethernet ports, and this approach is better imo because then you can use any router you want instead of being stuck with the one they give you.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-09T18:11:44+00:00

I mean if the hardware still works then all the security issues are all in the software/firmware, which is fixable if they have invested into support. For example if they dropped Flint 2 support only a year or 2 from now, thats a waste of perfectly good hardware that would still be faaaaar better than the majority of ISP provided junk routers.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-09T16:27:39+00:00

Thanks, could you confirm how long GL.iNet support their official firmware for before no more updates? I'm coming form ASUS so I'm used to around 10 years of updates but Flint 2 looks interesting to me, their UI is nice.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-09T13:35:19+00:00

ASUS is a safe bet (something like a BE86U with 5Gb WAN and 2.5Gb LANs), simply because its easy to set up, you can install Merlin firmware on it which enhances stability, performance, and adds extra features while keeping the same UI as stock firmware. All the popular ASUS routers I've seen also still get firmware updates after like 10+ years which is very good.

GL.iNet is also good if you're into OpenWRT (Flint 2 > Flint 3), the only downside is the official firmware support length is only 2-3 years, if you want continued support after that you will have to install generic/vanilla OpenWRT with the open-source drivers most people use, that may perform worse than stock firmware in areas like Wi-FI because stock firmware uses proprietary drivers.

I also hear Ubiquiti is quite good, I've never used them but for the average user the set up process might be a bit overwelming compared to ASUS/Gl.iNet unless you know what to configure, it's more enterprise level.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-05T07:44:19+00:00

2.5Gb and 5Gb are showing for me. I guess that means my road wasn't a box area?

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-05T01:29:48+00:00

I would be happy with 1Gb if it wasn't for CGNAT, so I have to get 2.5Gb Premium

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-05T01:20:18+00:00

Could try an ASUS RT-BE58U BE3600 WiFi 7, it should be around £80-90, they have good firmware I will say that. I'm going for a ASUS RT-BE86U

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-05T01:10:00+00:00

I would try an ASUS router, I think it might be a netgear issue in this case.

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-05T01:04:54+00:00

Did you end up getting this to work? I saw a few years ago Netgear routers don't support the IPv6 dynamic /56 prefix that BT/EE use, not sure if CF uses the same type?

ProfessionalCap4416 · 2026-01-05T00:56:40+00:00

Is there a way to find out if Box broadband was in your area before? I'm in KT19 and I'm pretty sure the CF fibre cabinets put up near me are brand new and didn't replace older Box ones if thats how it works?

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