I have an update, after months of being messed about BRSK installed FTTP at my address yesterday afternoon and I'm now 1000/1000mbps. - SK5. Now is it worth complaining about being messed about to get some type of compensation?
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CGNAT is only an issue if you genuinely need inbound connections ( where the connection needs to be initiated from the outside. ) It may seem as though smart home devices fall into that category, but unless you know different ( and you would, because you'd have to set something up such as port forwarding on a router or whatever ) then in 99.9% of cases that's not true. There's a cloud service that acts a a broker - your smart home devices use an outgoing connection to hold open a link to this broker service, as does your phone app or whatever you use to control them.... so in most circumstances and for most home users, CGNAT is absolutely fine.
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Would changing to a static ip affect latency in anyway? I don't have a need to connect to my home devices from outside my network but the brsk site it says static ip is better for gaming also. Would a static ip lower ping in games or is that just some marketing spiel?
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It's highly unlikely... whilst technically the router on their network will have to modify the packets, we're talking nanoseconds. There's likely to be far more of an effect if they route CGNAT and static IP via different parts of their network, but you wouldn't know the details of that and it's just as likely that static IP traffic would have higher latency. Again though it's highly unlikely that you'll notice a difference.
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It's been 6 months so far for me.
Not sure I am going to bother anymore, the reason for ordering it (the main one) has now passed, so happy to stick with my 5G unless they can do it before the summer arrives.
Soldato
Ordered mine Nov 2022, still waiting! ive just signed up to another 18 months Virgin Media, when BRSK goes live, il have Dual WAN, my PFsense if ready for this glorious day! lolIt's been 6 months so far for me.
Not sure I am going to bother anymore, the reason for ordering it (the main one) has now passed, so happy to stick with my 5G unless they can do it before the summer arrives.
