City Fibre

My contract is up on 3rd December this year. Will hunt for deals next month and see what's around. If voda got deal on again for the 900 will probably just sign up with them again.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
anyone use something like pfsense to do routing on cityfiber? what sort of cpu for full speed?
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I have used both pfsense and Opnsense with cityfibre. I prefer Opnsense the machine is just an old optiplex 3020 with a E3-1245 v3 and 16GB ram very overkill. I have maxed out gigabit with an i3 2nd gen with 4GB ram. It all depends on your use case. If your running things like snort and suricata you will need a bit more power. If your doing just standard routing an i3 would be fine.
 
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jalzoo said:
I have used both pfsense and Opnsense with cityfibre. I prefer Opnsense the machine is just an old optiplex 3020 with a E3-1245 v3 and 16GB ram very overkill. I have maxed out gigabit with an i3 2nd gen with 4GB ram. It all depends on your use case. If your running things like snort and suricata you will need a bit more power. If your doing just standard routing an i3 would be fine.
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the stock vodafone router web gui is just very slow, takes ages to login and takes even longer to logout. lol
 
Cyber-Mav said:
the stock vodafone router web gui is just very slow, takes ages to login and takes even longer to logout. lol
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Put your Vodafone router in AP mode and connect it to your Opnsense machine so it serves are your wireless it's what i did worked well. Just remember to request your PPPOE login details from vodafone to set it all up.
 
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jalzoo said:
Just use the stock Vodafone router as your wireless and let Opnsense do the rest It's what i did. You will need to request your PPPOE details from Vodafone to set it all up.
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yes i do have the pppoe details from voda so thats good. but i read that routing 1gbit takes a lot of cpu power without using dedicated packet processing that these stock routers have?
 
Cyber-Mav said:
yes i do have the pppoe details from voda so thats good. but i read that routing 1gbit takes a lot of cpu power without using dedicated packet processing that these stock routers have?
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Just make sure you disable hardware checksum offloading (checked by default) and you will route at 1gbit all day long. Just make sure you get a dual port intel nic. There is some known problems using realtek chips. PPPOE is slightly heavier on the CPU then DHCP but i never go above 30-40% CPU usage when downloading legal torrents ;) at 111mb/s
 
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jalzoo said:
Just make sure you disable hardware checksum offloading (checked by default) and you will route at 1gbit all day long. Just make sure you get a dual port intel nic. There is some known problems using realtek chips. PPPOE is slightly heavier on the CPU then DHCP but i never go above 30-40% CPU usage when downloading legal torrents ;) at 111mb/s
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What sort of speed you get on openvpn?
 
has anyone got talktalk on city fibre in the midlands and what is latency like to london based servers. i had 13ms on fttc with ecc off, but ecc permanently on now so get 21ms so im thinking to swap to full fibre as its been put in my street.
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Cityfibre installed their cables a while ago now but they still aren't live. I have until the end of next month to leave virgin for free so fingers crossed they go live by then!
 
Soulja said:
Cityfibre installed their cables a while ago now but they still aren't live. I have until the end of next month to leave virgin for free so fingers crossed they go live by
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mines been down a month or so but not going live till end oct -nov .. still connecting up all the areas .. they lay the pipe then run the fiber ..
 
Ad_Augendae said:
Sounds like a good Plan... keep us in the loop!
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Well its finally installed, and so far I'm more than happy, its a bit overkill so longer term I plan to virtualise it on the same hardware. So I went for a i3-n305 8 core intel box with 4 x intel i-226V network ports. OPNSense is running and now i can max out my CityFibre connection and have a 91% idle CPU. it currently has 16Gb on board but like I said the plan is to throw ESXi and up that to 32Gb and put the OPNSense firewall into a VM. Nice and future proof - for the next few years at least.
 
DustyMiller said:
Well its finally installed, and so far I'm more than happy, its a bit overkill so longer term I plan to virtualise it on the same hardware. So I went for a i3-n305 8 core intel box with 4 x intel i-226V network ports. OPNSense is running and now i can max out my CityFibre connection and have a 91% idle CPU. it currently has 16Gb on board but like I said the plan is to throw ESXi and up that to 32Gb and put the OPNSense firewall into a VM. Nice and future proof - for the next few years at least.
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Nice, are you doing QOS or do you feel there is no point or need?
 
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