BT Infinity & FTTx Discussion

scgf said:
I have the same product with Plusnet, £23 a month cheaper than the Aquiss product. I pay £31.99 a month with £140 payment card incentive:

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Nice one, any chance of what is your BQM is like? Someone saying my BQM is very high spiked almost 160ms - see mine here live BQM: https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broa...hare/40abf5aa64c7269e6b157203af517df67f0a1540
 
I use my own equipment - a TP-Link ER605 router, and a Deco BE25 mesh system for wifi. I have no idea about BQM and it’s not something I’m bothered about since I have zero problems and everything works without a hitch. My speeds are always what I posted, and have been for the past couple of years or so since fibre came to my neck of the woods.
 
Finally found out why it caused high spiked. The AMD Ryzen 3700x PC does doing it. But I did try on my old PC, Intel Sandybridge i7 2700K running on Firefox and the upload has now stopped high spiked from TBB BQM.

https://www.speedtest.net/result/18722609072.png

You can see both download and upload just low latency now.

Must have be better Intel ethernet network card on it than AMD ethernet network card.

Intel network card: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (NDIS 6.20)
 
After a bit of advice - my Virgin contract is coming to an end and I’m going to ditch them and go FTTP.

I’ve got the option of both Openreach and Community Fibre based connections - I was going to go back to Zen (Openreach) as they were excellent for the FTTC connection I had at my old place, but the Vodafone 900Mbps up/down option for £30pm feels like a no brainer - what’s the general consensus?

I’d want to use my own equipment (UniFi UCG Max) rather than an ISP supplied router - I know this isn’t an issue with Zen but is it easy enough to get the PPPoE details out of Vodafone or are you tied to their router?

Cheers!
 
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