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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I'd really like to know what speeds it manages running QoS, but tbh I don't think I'll meaningfully need that on gigabit FTTP anyway. The only real bummer is that it's 2x SFP+ and then gigabit copper. It'd have been really nice if they'd made it SFP+ and 2.5Gb at least. Alas, I think they were aiming at undercutting the UDM stuff.
The page is long, and gives all the various speed results (small file sizes through to large file sizes, hence the 'steps' in the speed graph), all the latency info for up and down, etc.
