I searched for 'the' Aquiss thread on here, and realised there wasn't one. 
We have a thread for most of the providers, so I'm starting this rather than tag onto the main BT/FTTP thread. I ordered 'Family Pure Fibre 1000' with a /29 IPv4 and a /58 IPv6 last Friday. The MD (Martin) has been very responsive and helpful, I can't fault them so far. Openreach called today to drop fibre from the pole to the front of the property. The chap was excellent, and did a really nice job negotiating a badly placed soil pipe and some other obstacles, hiding the drop across the street name sign and down behind a drain pipe, so it's virtually invisible. Top marks.
The fibre isn't actually lit atm. Openreach previously said a node is being repaired/completed further along in the area, and it'll be finished by tomorrow or the day after. Then the fibre will be lit, and we'll get a formal install date in the next couple of days. Can't wait.
I'm planning to get a RackyRax 12u wall mounted cabinet, PDU, patch panel and shelf installed this week so I can finally tidy up what became, but was never intended to be, the 'network corner'.
I was debating replacing the venerable x86 router (Pentium G4560, 8GB DDR4, 512GB m.2 SSD, VyOS) with either a GL.INET Flint 2 (faster than an MP to the expenses office, uglier than Boris Johnson making a baby, non-rackable), or the Q4 2023 released TP-Link ER8411 10Gbe (fast, unobtrusive looks, rackable). As it turns out though, the IPv6 ACL and firewall is lacking in the TP-Link, which is typical of them in new releases. Maybe in a couple of years when it loses £100 and gains some maturity! There's also the possibility of a nice little Beelink EQ12 (N100 based mini-PC with 8GB DDR5, 256GB NVMe, dual I225-V3 2.5Gbe NICs). I foresee Openreach matching VM in the next year or two on at least the 2Gb front, so it'd make sense to get something along these lines now while I'm having a shuffle around.
I found Aquiss' WhatsApp channel a handy place for 'breaking news', core router upgrade info, emergency works etc. Join if you haven't already (it'd probably help if you're a customer, though
). So, Aquiss customers assemble!
We have a thread for most of the providers, so I'm starting this rather than tag onto the main BT/FTTP thread. I ordered 'Family Pure Fibre 1000' with a /29 IPv4 and a /58 IPv6 last Friday. The MD (Martin) has been very responsive and helpful, I can't fault them so far. Openreach called today to drop fibre from the pole to the front of the property. The chap was excellent, and did a really nice job negotiating a badly placed soil pipe and some other obstacles, hiding the drop across the street name sign and down behind a drain pipe, so it's virtually invisible. Top marks.The fibre isn't actually lit atm. Openreach previously said a node is being repaired/completed further along in the area, and it'll be finished by tomorrow or the day after. Then the fibre will be lit, and we'll get a formal install date in the next couple of days. Can't wait.
I'm planning to get a RackyRax 12u wall mounted cabinet, PDU, patch panel and shelf installed this week so I can finally tidy up what became, but was never intended to be, the 'network corner'.
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| RUCKUS R710 |
| WALL MOUNT |
| WIFI AP |
|_____________|
||
||
.__________________||___________________.
| RAS PI 3B+ (DNS) |
| RADXA ROCK 5B (DNS & DHCP) |
| SYNOLOGY DS218+ 40TB (*arr stack) |
| BEELINK SER 5 (PROXMOX HOST): |
| - ROCKY LINUX LXC: Docker stuff |
| - OPENBSD VM: httpd/reverse proxy |
|-------------- 1u SHELF ---------------|
| x86 ROUTER (VyOS/OpenWRT) |
| PATCH PANEL |
| NETGEAR PROSAFE L3 SWITCH |
| - - |
| P D U |
[_______________________________________]I was debating replacing the venerable x86 router (Pentium G4560, 8GB DDR4, 512GB m.2 SSD, VyOS) with either a GL.INET Flint 2 (faster than an MP to the expenses office, uglier than Boris Johnson making a baby, non-rackable), or the Q4 2023 released TP-Link ER8411 10Gbe (fast, unobtrusive looks, rackable). As it turns out though, the IPv6 ACL and firewall is lacking in the TP-Link, which is typical of them in new releases. Maybe in a couple of years when it loses £100 and gains some maturity! There's also the possibility of a nice little Beelink EQ12 (N100 based mini-PC with 8GB DDR5, 256GB NVMe, dual I225-V3 2.5Gbe NICs). I foresee Openreach matching VM in the next year or two on at least the 2Gb front, so it'd make sense to get something along these lines now while I'm having a shuffle around.
I found Aquiss' WhatsApp channel a handy place for 'breaking news', core router upgrade info, emergency works etc. Join if you haven't already (it'd probably help if you're a customer, though
). So, Aquiss customers assemble!
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