Sky use city fibre and will supply a land line, and port the number from the current provider. No call package as stabdard, eve/weekend £8, 24 hr calls £17 per month. Offer on gigfast just now for £25 per month..
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Can't see any offers for gigafast (could be due to sky saying I have an account but being unable to find it...) and at the extra £17 quid a month I reckon I may just well ditch the landline when I can get Toob 900Mbps for £25, I'll just need to get used to using my mobile instead.
Just moved onto Cityfibre/Zen, 2.5gbit synchronous, and the speeds from my PC varies from 1gbit to only as high as 1.3gbit down, but always 1.6gbit up.
I'm on a Firewalla Gold Pro, Cat7 cables, PC with an ASUS XG-C100C 10 Gbps NIC. Local LAN tests hit 2500/2500 Mbps, confirming the NIC, cables, and Firewalla LAN are solid. However, PC internet tests (Fast.com/Ookla desktop app) only reach as high as 1.3gbit down 1.6gbit up. On the Firewalla CLI tests sometimes get as high as ~2000 Mbps down, and I've done multiple iperf3 tests too on Firewalla via SSH, and they hover around 1.3/1.5gbit. Upload speed is always consistent at 1.6gbit though.
Any ideas?
Edit: Possibly figured it out thanks to gemini. When performing iperf3 on PC, using htop in firewalla console the CPU maxes out when performing the test, so the CPU is being fully utilized to route the traffic at ~1.2 Gbps, and it simply cannot process it any faster for a forwarded stream. Thought these routers were supposed to be high end for the consumer?
I'm on a Firewalla Gold Pro, Cat7 cables, PC with an ASUS XG-C100C 10 Gbps NIC. Local LAN tests hit 2500/2500 Mbps, confirming the NIC, cables, and Firewalla LAN are solid. However, PC internet tests (Fast.com/Ookla desktop app) only reach as high as 1.3gbit down 1.6gbit up. On the Firewalla CLI tests sometimes get as high as ~2000 Mbps down, and I've done multiple iperf3 tests too on Firewalla via SSH, and they hover around 1.3/1.5gbit. Upload speed is always consistent at 1.6gbit though.
Any ideas?
Edit: Possibly figured it out thanks to gemini. When performing iperf3 on PC, using htop in firewalla console the CPU maxes out when performing the test, so the CPU is being fully utilized to route the traffic at ~1.2 Gbps, and it simply cannot process it any faster for a forwarded stream. Thought these routers were supposed to be high end for the consumer?
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Am looking at the Aquiss packages and these 2 are very similar: 900Mb/s City Fibre 1000 (GPON Technology) £42/m & 1000Mb/s City Fibre 1200 (XGS-PON Technology) £45/m. Not sure I'd be that fussed about an extra 100Mb/s, seems odd to have them so close unless there's some advantages I'm unaware of.
Its how ISPs are they have packages very close to each other, and looks cluttered.
But one of the ISPs came out (think was Aquiss) and said apparently that couple of quid cheaper option drives up sales as some customers are extremely price sensitive to the point that even a couple of quid will draw them in.
XGS is a much fatter shared topology compared to GPON, but it will likely also draw all the heavy users. I am still on GPON on a 1000/1000 (900/900) service. Very happy with it. But in your case I would opt for 1200/1200 based on those choices. I ordered mine when my area was GPON only. an advantage is if your LAN is gigabit, that extra 200mbit means you will never saturate the WAN, keeping QoS in perfect shape. Opting for the XGS option also gives you a XGS ONT meaning if you decide to upgrade in future it shouldnt require another home visit.
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If you go for 1200 you'll get the ONT box that allows to switch to 2500 if required later rather than having to pay a fee to get it upgraded at a later date (I just did this and it was £15)
I think you missed out on the 8 months half price deal by a day, maybe if you ask them nicely they'll offer you it.
I'm still not live here, cables have been laid just waiting for them to be activated.
Ok, hopefully by the time it is live there will be another deal
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Can’t see me staying with IDnet, was with no one/home telecom and my connection would max out at the full 920mbps at all times, whenever I did anything that needed it ie steam, switch to idnet and barely see over 600mbps even at 10am, when I questioned it they said it was strange and asked for some speedtests, which I sent and their reply was
“The speedtest results you have provided are well within specification of a 1GB service with the minimum specification being 500Mbp/s”
Still no explanation of why I’m getting 70% of the speed I was previously getting.
“The speedtest results you have provided are well within specification of a 1GB service with the minimum specification being 500Mbp/s”
Still no explanation of why I’m getting 70% of the speed I was previously getting.
What router are you using? IDNet is PPPoE and no one were DHCP so depending on the hardware you might be hitting CPU limits.
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Tplink archer AX11000 with both companies, Im sure I also used PPoE for no-one as well
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I asked why I would be getting 70% of my previous speeds and Yep they were very helpful
“I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to advise as it could be caused by a multitude of things.
We would advise factory resetting your router and making sure it has the latest firmware. We would also advise to try a different router and ethernet cable.
“I'm afraid we wouldn't be able to advise as it could be caused by a multitude of things.
We would advise factory resetting your router and making sure it has the latest firmware. We would also advise to try a different router and ethernet cable.