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https://forum.gl-inet.com/t/how-to-install-openwrt-on-flint2/39374

I accept that Zen may not be what they were but they’re still miles better than BT, EE or Vodafone. I had a truly disastrous installation experience with Kelly Comms until real Openreach engineers got involved and Zen looked after me. So I’m prepared to cut them quite a bit of slack, but I think...

I run the broadband contracts for the home offices and we went from a mix of Zen and Virgin to fully Zen then Vodafone business and now back to Zen. I have 2 lines at my own place with Upp but they are moving to Virgin in August I believe. Vodafone are cheap and when the service works, it’s...

It’s not about doubting what you’re saying, I believe you believe. it’s the veracity of the results being reported by the software that is in doubt. I’ve got an iPhone 15 Pro Max and it won’t connect at all if I set my router up at 160MHz channel width. That’s the main reason people don’t use...

As I said above, when it comes to WiFi speeds there are so many numbers bandied about it's hard to establish what the real numbers are. And I still doubt you're actually getting the speeds the software is reporting.

I'm pretty sure it's not. We sell a lot of Unifi U6-Enterprise and U7-Pro access points based on people having iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max handsets and they REALLY do well on 6E and the difference is more pronounced because they only run at 80MHz on 5GHz WiFi6. It has to be WiFi 6E. Even on WiFi6E...

@Caged, you beat me to it.

It looks like the 1Gbps Virgin Media package. They over-provision so you do get 1.1-1.2Gbps but not on 5GHz.

Strange result because the iPhone 15 Pro only supports 2x2 (80MHz) on 5GHz AX so PHY (simplex) data rates of 1200Mbps (600-ish Mbps actual maximum transfer speed). Could you be on Wifi6E and not know it?

Not being smart or anything but always test your WiFi slightly away from the antenna because it has a wavelength and if you’re inside the initial wavelength then you have to wait for a signal to bounce off something and get reflected back to you. While the wavelength of 5GHz is only 6cm if...

It’s REALLY unlikely. You’re probably looking at the simplex figure (the one they quote on the box and advertising). Your actual throughput is probably half the number you think it is. What kind of access point/WiFi router are you running?

This is not my experience and I’m certain if others were experiencing 0.1%+ of their access points ‘crashing’ there would be huge feedback from the user community. These are currently the best-selling access points in the world and they are used almost everywhere. One big Ubiquiti reference...

There are effectively two means that Zen get your data to/from the ‘internet’ - one is their own, and one they share with Openreach and their own one can be extremely troublesome. I’ve not had it myself but plenty of Zen users have complained bitterly about it. Where it’s good, it’s great. Where...

How much do you want to spend? Something like a Dahua NVR5216-16P-I has pretty much every AI feature you can think of built-in to the NVR on 16 PoE channels but it’s £635+VAT plus hard drives. Dahua NVR5208-8P-EI has 4 AI channels on the NVR but a much reduced feature set it can find and...

This is the optimal solution and it’s where most ‘enthusiasts’ are heading. For many though, they just want a single box that does it all. Even with the component model you get issues. There are folks who are having terrible performance with the UniFi U6-LR which has the same 2.4GHz chipset as...

Yes, and at the moment, as far as I’m aware the only truly working option is to stick on the original supplied firmware because that definitely works. Everything else may have improvements here and there but they all seem to negatively impact the 2.4GHz wireless performance.

And if you stick to the default firmware (and don’t use the open source drivers) they’ll all work just fine. But if you build your own snapshot of OpenWRT then all bets are off. If you buy it from Amazon and it doesn’t do what you want then you can send it back, no questions asked.

This all escalated quickly…. :)

I hear what you’re saying and technically you’re right, and in reality CAT5e works fine and it’s easier to work along skirting boards etc.

Just check that you’re happy with the 2.4GHz WiFi situation because once you move off the default firmware it can get a bit flakey depending on your exact use-case but for most users it’s absolutely fine.