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My first thoughts are it's a bit early for host season this year? Normally it's at least another month before this happens (eg historically after exams and when the student summer starts), and they normally go bump between then and Feb.

Just because they started to offer CF connections doesn’t explain why the company can email users and notify them of policy changes, announce the sale of its IP ranges on YT and somehow not tell frontline staff till customers contact them. I don't doubt Zen generally offers a better than...

Who in the name of <whatever imaginary friend you choose to believe in> is saying that? Zen has been on a downward slope for years, staff are literally being informed by customers about policy changes at this point, that's not a situation that should ever exist.

Don't worry about it, much like most of the conversation in this thread, the comment went slightly over your head. Just try not to make sweeping flawed generalisations and obvious contradictions in your statements and it's all good :)

It was more than twice that for BT line rental, likely closer to three times that if paid monthly rather than annually. Cable was £10/m for phone and £3.50/m for basic TV, 512K was £50 (they actually initially pitched it higher). The hilarious part isn’t the line rental cost, it’s the £100+...

Tell me you know nothing about how a UK ISP works without telling me... That’s a bit like saying all PC’s are the same because they all use Intel or AMD CPU’s and I’d hope anyone here appreciates why that is painfully inaccurate. Vodafone don’t investigate routing issues and have a nasty habit...

The advice will be the same as given at the start (other than we now know about the poor quality structured cabling). Run cables between devices and test. DO NOT USE ANY OF THE STRUCTURED CABLING.

For those on CF already reading about the OR issues Aquiss have had, this feels like a 'Hold my beer!' moment. CF avoid telling anyone anything in advance wherever possible.

Honestly, not a feature I would imagine you using much unless something is horribly wrong, I ran Unifi AP's for something like a decade, if they went down properly and the normal controller reboot option wasn't working, it usually ended in a reset button job rather than a forced reboot. As you...

A few random thoughts: Unifi doesn't have to be all or nothing, you can mix and match to get the best results depending on your needs. For example, I use Deco mesh and a U6 Pro because mesh works well for me, but I need wireless VLAN support which Deco can't do, if I wasn't using VLAN, I would...

You'll struggle - it's woefully under specified in terms of PCIe lanes to accommodate a 10Gb SFP+ port, let alone the two you would want, you need a better CPU with more PCIe lanes and that will bump the price significantly, which makes the older desktop route the more logical as it's cheap to...

I can't say a lot of positive things about reliability when it comes to CF. Ideally you expect to be notified of planned works and them to be carried out at anti-social times of the day, unfortunately that's rarely the case. Things just happen, and it's generally only by checking other CF ISP's...

If you have the details on email they will honour it. Just because whoever you spoke to can’t doesn’t mean VM won’t. Simply that he personally may lack the credit limit and inclination to.

I considered doing this after a recent loss of service with another provider that lasted 38hrs. After the initial annoyance, I realised that it’s probably not worth the expense for a once in decade event. Depending on the router, you’re looking at anything between £15 for a dongle to £35 up to...

QoS will likley fix your issue, but it shouldn't ‘need’ fixing unless you are saturating the connection, which it doesn't sound like you would be normally.

And just think, in 5+ years, it'll break even vs buying a sub £50 ex corp. desktop... more like 6-7 since power prices dropped/continue to drop.

TBH the router you have is perfectly capable of gigabit or as near to it as you will get, you're going to spend £120-190 and not get much for your money now, and later on that money will buy you more/better kit when you have the option of a faster profile. If you have a Unifi ecosystem, then...

Gaming traffic shouldn't need prioritising and you're only doing that on your network, not your ISP's. The Flint2 runs OWRT, it has QoS options if that's what you're asking, but fibre is fibre, you should be able to get any profile OR offer on that connection eg upto 1.6Gb, not just 100mb (I was...

The other mildly contentious option (yes, it should work regardless) is you use a decent wifi ecosystem which potentially makes more sense anyway. I'm a big fan of separating routing/firewall, switching and wifi, it means you can choose what suits your needs best in each area and upgrades can be...

Meanwhile in the real world many of us have been running 10Gb over 5e for a long, long time at this point, the supported range is smaller, but unless you live in a home with a servants wing or try and wrap your house in a single piece of 5e, you shouldn't have an issue. Oh and if you're actually...