City Fibre

orangeman2003 said:
Will see how this 18months go and which ISP's are here by then "which im hoping will grow by then"
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Those were my thoughts originally when I switched to Vodafone especially with all the negativity you see around the ISP, but since I had no issues it made no sense to switch (renewed for another 24mnths).
Don't think it's going to get much better than this in my case with the latency I have.

The choice of ISP's is very nice as it keeps the pricing competitive, that would probably be the only reason I consider switching, but as of right now Vodafone are keeping prices pretty low aswell.
 
0007 said:
Those were my thoughts originally when I switched to Vodafone especially with all the negativity you see around the ISP, but since I had no issues it made no sense to switch (renewed for another 24mnths).
Don't think it's going to get much better than this in my case with the latency I have.

The choice of ISP's is very nice as it keeps the pricing competitive, that would probably be the only reason I consider switching, but as of right now Vodafone are keeping prices pretty low aswell.
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Yeah your latency is spot on. I would definitely be happy with that. Spoke to Vodaphone yesterday, still can't order C/F version yet 900meg, but the woman said it's £60 atm anyway the half price promo ran out in January which is the kinda deal I'm looking for.
 
mr griffin said:
Yeah your latency is spot on. I would definitely be happy with that. Spoke to Vodaphone yesterday, still can't order C/F version yet 900meg, but the woman said it's £60 atm anyway the half price promo ran out in January which is the kinda deal I'm looking for.
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That’s expensive for CF.
 
It may be a long way away but renew during Black Friday period.
Or just keep checking their website weekly.
Until then choose one of the slower options because you can upgrade or downgrade at any time.
 
mr griffin said:
Yeah your latency is spot on. I would definitely be happy with that. Spoke to Vodaphone yesterday, still can't order C/F version yet 900meg, but the woman said it's £60 atm anyway the half price promo ran out in January which is the kinda deal I'm looking for.
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It's not £60, it's £35 still & on the site it says it will run until 31st March.

For reference, if your postcode doesn't have Gigafast and thus doesn't show the GigaFast prices you can always use an area which does have it already. That's what I used to do.
Here's a MK postcode that has Gigafast available: "MK5 7EL" (CityFibre Area)


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0007 said:
It's not £60, it's £35 still & on the site it says it will run until 31st March.

For reference, if your postcode doesn't have Gigafast and thus doesn't show the GigaFast prices you can always use an area which does have it already. That's what I used to do.
Here's a MK postcode that has Gigafast available: "MK5 7EL"


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wow thanks for that. I'm pretty sure it will be up and running in my area by then and Virgin goes out of contract 18th April so can have both going for a month crossover period
 
mr griffin said:
If you have some spare time would it be possible to do a tracert on this address so I can see what Vodaphone latency is like, it's in Germany and on virgin I get on avarage 35 - 40ms. Tbh anyone on full fibre.
Here it is... 185.242.115.55:27065
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22ms on Zen (OpenReach).
 
here is mine for their servers it's a bit crap - hence another reason wanting to move from VM to FTTP

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Vodafone 900.

Tracing route to 185.242.115.55 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms vodafone.broadband
2 13 ms 13 ms 13 ms 84.65.0.1
3 14 ms 13 ms 13 ms 63.130.127.213
4 15 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae15-100-xcr1.slo.cw.net [195.2.2.217]
5 20 ms 14 ms 14 ms ae4-xcr1.ltw.cw.net [195.2.24.34]
6 * * * Request timed out.
7 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms be2350.ccr42.lon13.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.51.137]
8 21 ms 21 ms 21 ms be12488.ccr42.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.51.42]
9 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms be2814.ccr42.fra03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.142]
10 30 ms 28 ms 28 ms be2846.rcr22.fra06.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.37.30]
11 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms 149.14.210.66
12 27 ms 28 ms 28 ms scrub.scrub.scrub.first-colo.net [212.224.104.49]
13 28 ms 28 ms 28 ms ae1.3906.ce3.fra4.de.first-colo.net [212.224.104.13]
14 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms fra4.mx240.ae3.fc.as48314.net [84.200.7.114]
15 58 ms 59 ms 48 ms fra4.cc1.as48314.net [45.91.100.54]
16 27 ms 27 ms 27 ms 185.242.115.55
 
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mr griffin said:
If you have some spare time would it be possible to do a tracert on this address so I can see what Vodaphone latency is like, it's in Germany and on virgin I get on avarage 35 - 40ms. Tbh anyone on full fibre.
Here it is... 185.242.115.55:27065
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Getting a steady 16ms when pinging, that's about as low as it can get for a server in Frankfurt.

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Just found out City Fibre are doing my road soon - that’ll mean I can get Openreach (currently with them), Virgin Media (confirmed to be one of their newer FTTP builds, not hybrid coax) and City Fibre :D


The latter is the best news for me as it’ll give me symmetrical FTTP speeds, useful for the amount of data I work with :)
 
Hi all,
I am new to this forum so please move my thread if this is not the right place.

Yesterday, my new Giganet (FibreCity) broadband connection has been installed and it works flawlessly so far. Now I have one challenge I am hoping someone who was in the same situation could advice me on.
The wireless router they provided is a Technicolor DGA4134, however I would like to use my own ASUS RT-AC86u as I had two in a mesh running so that the house and garden were covered at all time.
It seems I do not need the Technicolor in bridge mode as I can take the signal directly from the ONT. The PPPOE setup seems to be straight forward but the VLAN ID tagging is a bit unusual (Needs to be setup in the IPTV section of the ASUS firmware). Also, I found an article for another ASUS router saying that you need to setup dual WAN what I actually don't really understand as I am not planing on a failover. So I guess my question is if someone has done this config successfully before with this Asus wireless router Model or a similar? The VLAN ID has to be 910 so I definitely need to set it but so far no luck with getting it to work.

Thank you
 
@Gregor Honer Would you be able to send a traceroute to bbc.co.uk or 1.1.1.1, I'm interested to see how well Giganet compares with their latency.
I'm not familiar with the ASUS router so I probably won't be of much help, but yeah you are correct in saying you can plug your router directly into the ONT as long as you have the PPPoE & VLAN tagging setup correctly.

Maybe this and this helps?
 
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So I've had a nightmare of a time getting connected to Cityfibre. Signed up to Vodafone on 23 January, install date 1 March. On that date, 1 man came at 2pm and at 6pm, 6 people and 3 vans later, they figured out a stretch of cable outside my property was damaged and would need replacing. That was done 2 days ago. Later that day, another man came to finish off the install inside the property. Cue another 4 hours, 3 men and 2 vans later, they still couldn't get it working. Finally yesterday, after another 4 hours outside replacing more cabling, the team of 3 finally managed to get it working.

Gone from:

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Worth the wait at least!
 
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