BRSK

Yeh, I was hoping it would be lower, it does seem to vary though- just got 9ms when I ran it now

Overhead install in Bolton, engineer was accommodating and installed the ONT exactly where I wanted

Overall still much better value for money compared to any of the Openreach suppliers (who all wanted to increase prices in April every year a minimum of 10%!)
 
Just upgraded from Virgin Media 250, a bit disappointed with the ping? Main use gaming (up to 3 devices simultaneously)

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Not sure how much lower you are expecting? I have had 11 or so before, but it does hit lower like today.

Your ping during upload/download seems high though, would be worth looking into bufferbloat and if your hardware supports it.

 
TEST BEFORE QOS


TEST AFTER QOS


Ive set QoS to 500 but max speed without QoS hits 520 easily, is it worth increasing and is it normal for max download to decrease slightly when enabling QoS. Wasnt expecting it to make such a difference

Im using TP Link Deco X55s (they do QoS but not SQM)
 
It is normal for the speed to decrease in order to reduce bufferbloat. To be honest I would leave it set as you have it, you are losing very little bandwidth, or if you value the bandwidth then see if you actually face any issues in various use cases like online gaming.
 
I placed my order for BRSK over the weekend. Should be getting installed on Thursday.

I was toying with it or a standard ISP, as I currently have various ports open for Plex etc & didn't fancy paying another £5/month for a static IP to allow me to do this. After a bit of playing around, I've got a cloudflare zerotrust tunnel setup instead, which works well without any ports needing to be open & it's free (other than needing a domain, which I've bought at $5/year)
 
I placed my order for BRSK over the weekend. Should be getting installed on Thursday.

I was toying with it or a standard ISP, as I currently have various ports open for Plex etc & didn't fancy paying another £5/month for a static IP to allow me to do this. After a bit of playing around, I've got a cloudflare zerotrust tunnel setup instead, which works well without any ports needing to be open & it's free (other than needing a domain, which I've bought at $5/year)
I thought it was against plex terms to use Cloudflare’s zero trust tunnels. They can ban
your account. It’s only available for cloudflare enterprise customers only. I may be wrong. But do double check
 
Hi,

Just joined here the forum, been a lurker for a long time.

I have BRSK and just want to to check if people are seeing degraded latency from the North of England.

Had the service since April, was getting pings of around 8ms to UK based data centre. 2 months later degraded to 15ms, reported it to support, lots of tests conducted they say its fine not an issue. I believed at the time it was starting to show a degradation on their core.

Fast forward to now, getting 22ms now. Testing with a device plugged straight into the ONT without a router get the same results (so not my equipment). Tracert stats show 1st hop after the router is always good at around 5ms, it then bounces around in their network and exits at about 21ms, before the remaining journey takes about 1ms.

Throughput is as expected for my package 500mpbs. both up and down.

I want to raise another ticket, but its a PIA as they will have me unplug my own router to use theirs for tests that breaks my home setup (WFH) so is really disruptive, when the data I supply them always shows the router hop and 1st WAN are always low. If others are also seeing the same it adds weight to my claim and allows me to be a bit more forceful when they come back with an 'everything' is fine our side response.

I suspect their success is catching up with them, and their core network is beginning to creak a bit under load and they are tailoring for throughput rather than latency as that is what most will see.
 
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I thought it was against plex terms to use Cloudflare’s zero trust tunnels. They can ban
your account. It’s only available for cloudflare enterprise customers only. I may be wrong. But do double check

I came across a few things about this when I was looking at it. AFAIK, there's nothing from Plex's side that's a problem, I assume it was a typo from you & you meant it's against Cloudflare's terms? From what I've been able to find, it's changed a few times, some being explicitly against it, some only prohibiting it with a cached service etc. From looking around myself at the terms, i've not been able to find a mention of it, but the general concensus I've been able to find online by others that have done the same, is that as long as it's fairly low usage (e.g. it's not a plex service you're charging 10s/100s of users for & it's all heavily used), then the data usage is minimal enough they don't do anything about it anyway.
 
Hi,

Just joined here the forum, been a lurker for a long time.

I have BRSK and just want to to check if people are seeing degraded latency from the North of England.

Had the service since April, was getting pings of around 8ms to UK based data centre. 2 months later degraded to 15ms, reported it to support, lots of tests conducted they say its fine not an issue. I believed at the time it was starting to show a degradation on their core.

Fast forward to now, getting 22ms now. Testing with a device plugged straight into the ONT without a router get the same results (so not my equipment). Tracert stats show 1st hop after the router is always good at around 5ms, it then bounces around in their network and exits at about 21ms, before the remaining journey takes about 1ms.

Throughput is as expected for my package 500mpbs. both up and down.

I want to raise another ticket, but its a PIA as they will have me unplug my own router to use theirs for tests that breaks my home setup (WFH) so is really disruptive, when the data I supply them always shows the router hop and 1st WAN are always low. If others are also seeing the same it adds weight to my claim and allows me to be a bit more forceful when they come back with an 'everything' is fine our side response.

I suspect their success is catching up with them, and their core network is beginning to creak a bit under load and they are tailoring for throughput rather than latency as that is what most will see.
I've been online since the 20/08/25 and my pings have been 12-13ms consistently since go-live, no other issues of note. I do have 24/7 monitoring on my connection from a VPS so I'll keep an eye on it and see if the latency does increase.
 
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I've been online since the 20/08/25 and my pings have been 12-13ms consistently since go-live, no other issues of note. I do have 24/7 monitoring on my connection from a VPS so I'll keep an eye on it and see if the latency does increase.
Thanks.

I've setup a TBB monitor now, wish I'd have done it from the beginning as it would have helped me prove my point to support.

Where are you generally located. I am around the Bradford area, would be interesting to see if its a location things as well.
 
If I wasn't having such latency issues I'd have started a new 18 month contrct for the 1Gpbs package at that price

Just an update. I have a TBB monitor going for 48 hours now, I'm seeing lots of spikes in latency even when the connection is not being used much. Raised a ticket with support not had a reply yet. On Mon eveninjg I was even getting mild packet loss.

WinMTR shows lots of latency at the 5th hop, so I think they have a capacity or routing issue.
 
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If I wasn't having such latency issues I'd have started a new 18 month contrct for the 1Gpbs package at that price

Just an update. I have a TBB monitor going for 48 hours now, I'm seeing lots of spikes in latency even when the connection is not being used much. Raised a ticket with support not had a reply yet. On Mon eveninjg I was even getting mild packet loss.

WinMTR shows lots of latency at the 5th hop, so I think they have a capacity or routing issue.

Post the WinMTR results.
 
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