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Zen's pro and con is probably that they have their own network and routing. Some ISPs on CF rely on Cityfibre National/Entanet - and at least in my experience don't always give you full (1gig) speed on most servers.
 
LeedsFTTPmate said:
Zen's pro and con is probably that they have their own network and routing. Some ISPs on CF rely on Cityfibre National/Entanet - and at least in my experience don't always give you full (1gig) speed on most servers.
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Zen’s peering arrangements are hardly amazingly large, or diverse (320Gbps), they are dwarfed by overall capacity and diversity by Vodafone (900Gbps) and TalkTalk (1200Gbps) for example.
 
Vodafone installation completed by CityFibre on 20/01. Vodafone failed to activate the service and advised "could take up to 3 working days".

No change today, so I've cancelled and booked in the switch to IDNet instead.
 
CityFibre engineers arrived promptly this morning, a call about 25mins before to let me know they were coming.

They managed to do a decent job outside, there were some bricks outlining the tarmac driveway which they started to lift as the box was in line with this. They then ran into trouble as some bricks had been cemented in so they ended up cutting part of the driveway but they did a decent job at replacing the tarmac after laying the cable. Box inside and outside was installed neatly and next to the existing OpenReach box.
They had to take the time to go and get additional equippment and call in a support engineer from a different area while doing this but they were decent about it.

I managed to get my own router updated with iDNet's settings. The initial ISP login worked fine and speeds are good. Latest test was 869Mbps down and 659Mbps up.

I have however run into an issue with the IP and DNS, as well as setting up IPv6. Does anyone have experience with that (ideally on a TPLink router).

Perhaps this needs it's own thread but the issues;
Info: the Connection Type is done as PPPoE.
- IP Address is static, iDNet provided the address, do I need to enter that on the router? (leaving it as "Dynamically from ISP" shows same IP address).
- DNS Address, IDNet provided the addresses, do I need to enter that on the router? (leaving it as "Dynamically from ISP" shows the same IP addresses).
When I modified these the connection didn't seem as stable as geting it dynamically.
The big one is IPv6;
iDNet say: "You must configure IPv6 on your router using DHCPv6 or IPv6-PD, configuring IPv6 manually is not supported."
- I enabled IPv6 put the details in provided by iDNet but then my connection disconnected every minute then reconnected on a cycle. It is not stable. Undoing these settings and turning off IPv6 and the connection is stable with the speeds above.
Is this something that takes time to establish a connection and will become more stable or have I done something wrong?
It seems that any time I touch IPv6 it causes a connection issue, but perhaps I've not got settings quite right with this router.

Thanks.
 
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Everything comes from PPPoE, you don't need to set anything as a static value. So for IPv6 find "automatic" and leave it on that and see if you at least pull down the address with the word "feed" in it.
 
Caged said:
Everything comes from PPPoE, you don't need to set anything as a static value. So for IPv6 find "automatic" and leave it on that and see if you at least pull down the address with the word "feed" in it.
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Thank you! I haven't changed ISP in about 10 years so haven't encountered some of these things.
Looking back at the IPv6 instructions it even says "configuring IPv6 manually is not support" - my brain didn't compute that and thought it was necessary to configure it via DHCPv6 as the start of the sentence says. :rolleyes:
I'll give it all a try when there's a good time to drop the connection. Appreciate the help.
 
Looking to move from Giganet as they moved me to Cuckoo last week, They performed a scheduled maintenance and my connections been down ever since. 36 hours and counting now it's some sort of config / Authentication issue on the back end as pppoe wont authenticate and the staff at Cuckoo are so far utterly inept. Can anyone recommend a provider that deals specifically with advanced setups and not hur durr your not using the eero we provided we dont know whats up durr. :p
 
I'm back again with another question. I enabled IPv6 with all the settings on Auto after selecting PPoE and the connection has been stable, however my speed was reduced to a fraction of the 900Mbps expected.

This is a speedtest with IPv6 enabled. (85Mbps down, 92Mbps up)
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Is this normal?

If I turn off IPv6 and reconnect it's currently giving me this result. (367Mbps down, 741Mbps up)
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Both of these tests are to the same iDNet London server.

Any better way to check, or settings to add/change?
Thanks all.
 
Broken Hope said:

Aquiss - Slow performance speeds on TP-Link Archer AX50

support.aquiss.net support.aquiss.net

Might help.
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Thank you. I went through each step and checked. I only set the Application Priority speeds (wasn't showing anything), and the Port Negotiation Speed (changed from Auto to 1000Mbps).

Speedtest before enabling IPv6. 789Mbps down, 587Mbps up.
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Speedtest AFTER enabling IPv6. 74Mbps down, 87Mbps up.
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I'll keep doing some searching and maybe drop iDNet a message to see if there's any other troubleshooting.


This is how I have the IPv6 page setup:
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This is the info for IPv6 connection from iDNet
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You have prefix delegation disabled so you aren't even using IPv6 at this point, the speed drop sounds like a TP Link issue.
 
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