City Fibre

Soulja · 12 Dec 2023 at 23:28

I'm finally able to leave VM and i've decided to go with leetline. Hopefully the ping/jitter will not be all over the place like it currently is with VM!

lee1101 · 12 Dec 2023 at 23:36

Finally got a letter through the door saying that fibre is on its way in my road. Can finally get rid of Virgin!!

edGfaCTor · 13 Dec 2023 at 20:24

A week has passed still not heard anything from cityfibre or even no one on when they will be putting the job right.

The other thing is my father is almost ready to throw the router out the window the thing is awful cant even hold stable wireless the 5g side is useless even in same room it either wont connect or connects but states no internet.

Everyday issues on 2.4 side as well and it will show as having very good signal yet connection keeps cutting out (This is on all different types of devices)

Cyber-Mav · 14 Dec 2023 at 23:13

renewed with vodafone 900 for 29 a month. will see how things are in 2 years time. cityfiber is the way.

Rawr · 14 Dec 2023 at 23:50

edGfaCTor said:
A week has passed still not heard anything from cityfibre or even no one on when they will be putting the job right.

The other thing is my father is almost ready to throw the router out the window the thing is awful cant even hold stable wireless the 5g side is useless even in same room it either wont connect or connects but states no internet.

Everyday issues on 2.4 side as well and it will show as having very good signal yet connection keeps cutting out (This is on all different types of devices)

I'd contact no one about that router too. I am not getting that experience at all with it. :S

ryhoper1 · 15 Dec 2023 at 02:31

I should probably have had a read through this earlier but I ordered no one today.

CF went live in my area a few weeks ago. My issue was I need a land line for my elderly mother she uses the phone a fair bit. When my postcode went live on the CF site voda and talk talk were showing but their respective sites said it was unavailable.

Voda eventually updated and their prices were crazy. Still no sign of talk talk.

Saw some good things said about no one and they had a pretty good package. NO CGnat, offered telephone services.

I called them this morning and asked how many ports their router had and when she said 2 I mentioned I will get my own. If you use your own router they credit back £50 to your account.

Does anyone have suggestions of a decent ppoe & vlan router for between £100-200 ?

Might have been sales talk but apparently their £29 a month offer ends today so I caught it just in time if that happens to be the case.

:confused:

I have to pay £260 to get out of my plusnet contract but going from barely 30mb to 900 it will be well worth it for me.

~cw · 15 Dec 2023 at 19:02

If you can stretch your budget a bit, the Ubiquiti UDM is ~£300, otherwise anything on OpenWRT's "recommended routers" wiki page is a good place to start.

Soulja · 16 Dec 2023 at 08:44

I was hoping leetline would send a different router, rather than their no one rougher but sadly it's the same one and only has 2 ethernet ports. Would I be okay using an ethernet switch/splitter and not notice and loss of speed/increased ping?

I'm kinda annoyed as the router picture they use is completely different to the router you actually receive.

ChrisD. · 16 Dec 2023 at 08:46

Yes, just get a cheap Gigabit unmanaged switch and connect it, you won't notice any difference in performance.

no_1_dave · 21 Dec 2023 at 23:03

So... It appears Cityfibre are now on my street and I am able to sign up to yayzi's 2Gb plan..

Has anybody got any experience with their 2Gb plan? It's really tempting

Rawr · 22 Dec 2023 at 14:06

no_1_dave said:
So... It appears Cityfibre are now on my street and I am able to sign up to yayzi's 2Gb plan..
Has anybody got any experience with their 2Gb plan? It's really tempting

I think you're best of looking at the CityFibre reddit, whenever I was looking, half the posts on there was about them. A lot of complaints about about them as an ISP, it seems like they're a small company who has bit off more than they can chew. There was some impression posts about the service itself being fine once you've gotten installed, but I guess it's whether you're lucky enough to get to that stage.

no_1_dave · 22 Dec 2023 at 23:27

Rawr said:
I think you're best of looking at the CityFibre reddit, whenever I was looking, half the posts on there was about them. A lot of complaints about about them as an ISP, it seems like they're a small company who has bit off more than they can chew. There was some impression posts about the service itself being fine once you've gotten installed, but I guess it's whether you're lucky enough to get to that stage.

I'll take a look, cheers

no_1_dave · 24 Dec 2023 at 00:23

Rawr said:
I think you're best of looking at the CityFibre reddit, whenever I was looking, half the posts on there was about them. A lot of complaints about about them as an ISP, it seems like they're a small company who has bit off more than they can chew. There was some impression posts about the service itself being fine once you've gotten installed, but I guess it's whether you're lucky enough to get to that stage.

I see what you mean about people having install issues, but I still have 1gb Aquiss through Openreach so could overlap the service and not worry about problems during install.
Definitely tempted

woppy101 · 24 Dec 2023 at 13:46

Well my connection with no one has now seemed to get to where it should be thankfully
My Broadband Ping

Glanza · 24 Dec 2023 at 14:18

woppy101 said:
Well my connection with no one has now seemed to get to where it should be thankfully
My Broadband Ping

What did they do to fix it?

woppy101 · 24 Dec 2023 at 15:43

Glanza said:
What did they do to fix it?

No idea, might have been something their end or city fibres end or even a firmware update

Nemiyen · 24 Dec 2023 at 16:04

I went from VM to Vodafone on City Fibre and it's been great. £29 for the 900 mbps connection, like Cyber-Mav, and it's a massive improvement over my £22 per month 125mbit VM connection.

Swapped the Voda router for my own Asus Gt-Ax11000 and it's been perfect since. Getting 946 down and 779 up using the speed test page on the router. Slight difference between the two but download is all I need.

mrk · 25 Dec 2023 at 00:42

Since toob partnered with City, is this the thread for toob chat in future out of curiosity

Glanza said:
No issues here, speedtest from ovh.net

Not heard of this speedtest before, seems to align with ookla:

cee-S-dee · 26 Dec 2023 at 17:45

Had no-one 900/900 now since June and its been really stable for me. I always have to chuckle when I download something from Steam. I go from the ONT into an i3 6100T OPNSense box which handles the connection without issue. I'm teetering on Virtualizing the OPN, but it runs so well on the current box. I've not had any outages that I know of (unless they were when I was sleeping).

ChrisD. · 26 Dec 2023 at 17:55

cee-S-dee said:
OPNSense

Your WAN IP is showing in the screenshot.