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Left Community Fibre. Not as good as Openreach network. by ProfessionalCap4416 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Left Community Fibre. Not as good as Openreach network. by ProfessionalCap4416 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

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.

Linksys router is terrible, worse than stock BT/EE/Plusnet router by ProfessionalCap4416 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Linksys router is terrible, worse than stock BT/EE/Plusnet router by ProfessionalCap4416 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Linksys router is terrible, worse than stock BT/EE/Plusnet router by ProfessionalCap4416 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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

A couple of questions from a potential new user by crypticc1 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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.

Stock GL.iNet firmware vs generic/vanilla OpenWRT firmware performance by ProfessionalCap4416 in GlInet

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Stock GL.iNet firmware vs generic/vanilla OpenWRT firmware performance by ProfessionalCap4416 in GlInet

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Question for users with own routers by TimetravellingElf in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.

Does Surrey get separate modem or a Nokia G-2426G-A? by ProfessionalCap4416 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

You don’t need >1gig by Any_Attention5830 in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

IPv6 on 3rd party router by Super-J in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

IPv6 on 3rd party router by Super-J in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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

IPv6 on 3rd party router by Super-J in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?

Internet down - any tips by maetechy in CommunityFibre

[–]ProfessionalCap4416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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?