Anyone on Swish Fibre?

Gredawarha · 31 Mar 2023 at 13:38

Just took the plunge and ordered FTTP from Swish Fibre. I am currently on Vodafone FTTC and getting 45Mb/s down and 10Mb/s up. The connection in our road is not great, we seem to get regular drop outs of about a minute or two and I am paying more currently for Vodafone than Swish are charging for 150Mb/s down and up so seems like a no brainer really.

Anyone have any experience with them?

mjturner · 22 Sep 2023 at 15:52

Very delayed reply, but I've been with them for ~2 months now (1Gbps symmetric, static IP) and am very happy. Performance has been excellent (Oookla speedtest returns around 900Mbps no matter when I test, day or night) and ping times are pretty decent (see below). Only negative is that they're still in the process of rolling out IPv6.

Can't comment on the bundled Linksys Velop equipment, I'm using my own custom router running OpenBSD.

$ ping google.com
PING google.com (216.58.204.78): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 216.58.204.78: icmp_seq=0 ttl=119 time=3.487 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.78: icmp_seq=1 ttl=119 time=3.608 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.78: icmp_seq=2 ttl=119 time=3.516 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.78: icmp_seq=3 ttl=119 time=3.420 ms
64 bytes from 216.58.204.78: icmp_seq=4 ttl=119 time=3.690 ms

Gredawarha · 22 Sep 2023 at 16:13

Glad you're happy. I took the plunge in the end and in terms of service in very happy, paying for 150 up and down and when running speed tests I'm getting typically nearer 160.

My only gripe is the supplied router, they call it a plume pod and it only has two connections and one is taken by the connection to the internal box, I've also had to have it replaced as it failed. Couple of weeks ago the replacement failed but I managed to get it to restart.

I'm tempted to get a third party router.

mjturner · 22 Sep 2023 at 16:22

Ah, I didn't get a bundled Plume Pod - I think they only include those with the 500Mbps and below packages (1Gbps packages include a Velop MX4200). A third party router may be a good option - pretty much any should work. Only key thing when setting it up is that Swish don't use PPPoE, you just need to enable DHCP on the WAN interface.