Community Fibre

Pretty much all but one road near me have it now. Still not available for me. These are all houses like mine, not flats or anything. Wonder why they are taking to long activating my road?

One thing I can think about is other roads had more people signing up showing interest. Maybe I am the only one on my road :p
 
Community Fibre have been about to do my street for about 3 years now! I'm currently on plusnet and virgin are too expensive, but i'm going to try NOW just because they're the only ones that do a 12 month contract. Finger crossed CF get their act sorted out by then. I'm in London in a terraced house.
 
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Community Fibre have been about to do my street for about 3 years now! I'm currently on plusnet and virgin are too expensive, but i'm going to try NOW just because they're the only ones that do a 12 month contract. Finger crossed CF get their act sorted out by then. I'm in London in a terraced house.
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Have you checked if roads near you have it out of interest.
 
They only started doing it from the 29/6 so everyone else on 1GB+ won't have cgnat and will be fine. The downsides are if you need to port forward stuff as you will no longer be able too, and I believe p2p gaming is harder. It's the port forwarding that's making me leave right away
 
Sucks. But i don't think it would make a difference to me if that is all it is.

I am still waiting for them to enable my utility pole. All underground work is done. Managed to get someone to give me a estimated date and it's next month :(
 
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Sucks. But i don't think it would make a difference to me if that is all it is.

I am still waiting for them to enable my utility pole. All underground work is done. Managed to get someone to give me a estimated date and it's next month :(
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Next month hopefully the Summer Sale, so might be able to snatch a good bargain. :) ( :: edit :: Hold the phone, it looks like some of their usual bargains are up now. The 1gb connection is up at £25 a month for all 24 months right now. )

As for the CGNAT issue, that's a shame, would have thought the 1gb connection would have remained non-CGNAT, but I guess their uptake is a lot higher now and they can't keep offering it without CGNAT given the limited availability when via IPV4. :(
 
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They only started doing it from the 29/6 so everyone else on 1GB+ won't have cgnat and will be fine. The downsides are if you need to port forward stuff as you will no longer be able too, and I believe p2p gaming is harder. It's the port forwarding that's making me leave right away
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Had a feeling it would happen eventually. I joined a few weeks back but I haven't tested if I'm under CGNAT, pretty much what I play now doesn't need port forwarding and I moved my local Minecraft server to a cloud host before winter.

Alternatively, would something like Wireguard work, to create a local virtual network?
 
Why is having CGNAT an issue? Is it bad/worse for an average user? We're on the 1GB package and I think use port forwarding for my Emby server.

Pending moving house, was just going to transfer over as the new place has CF.
 
doodah said:
Why is having CGNAT an issue? Is it bad/worse for an average user? We're on the 1GB package and I think use port forwarding for my Emby server.

Pending moving house, was just going to transfer over as the new place has CF.
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CGNAT is basically a group of users sharing an IP address, and it does this by allocating certain ports to each user. Which makes port forwarding impossible. For most things that don't require direct IP connection, this won't affect you, but for those who needs to open ports then it will block you from doing this.

There is IPv6 but I haven't had a proper look in the Linksys settings if it can port forward via that.
 
Orcvader said:
CGNAT is basically a group of users sharing an IP address, and it does this by allocating certain ports to each user. Which makes port forwarding impossible. For most things that don't require direct IP connection, this won't affect you, but for those who needs to open ports then it will block you from doing this.

There is IPv6 but I haven't had a proper look in the Linksys settings if it can port forward via that.
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Ah, thank you. So this might be an issue with the likes of running an Emby server. Research for the weekend - knew £25pm for 1GB up/down was too good to be true :p
 
Depends how you want to access the server - if it's just you or a couple of people you invite then make a Tailscale or Zerotier VPN and CGNAT won't matter
 
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Eh if you're running it exposed to the public internet then you probably want to sort that out anyway, so being forced to is as good a time as any to make the move. There are documents describing how to get it working through a Cloudflare tunnel as well.
 
Orcvader said:
CGNAT is basically a group of users sharing an IP address, and it does this by allocating certain ports to each user. Which makes port forwarding impossible. For most things that don't require direct IP connection, this won't affect you, but for those who needs to open ports then it will block you from doing this.

There is IPv6 but I haven't had a proper look in the Linksys settings if it can port forward via that.
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That doesn’t sound great, but Im no tech wizard, I’m thinking about going BT instead, I was going to wait for CF to build in my area, personally though I think these guys and a few others will be sucked up by the big companies eventually and the prices then rocket.
 
One way of guaranteeing that the smaller players get acquired by larger companies is if you avoid giving them your custom because you're concerned they might get acquired by a larger company ;)
 
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Caged said:
One way of guaranteeing that the smaller players get acquired by larger companies is if you avoid giving them your custom because you're concerned they might get acquired by a larger company ;)
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Lol. That is exactly what I thought. Sorry Ken, your post made no sense. Not like you are signing up to a 10 year contract. If that ever happens, you can always leave?

What happens if BT buys them? :p:cry:
 
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CGNAT is basically a group of users sharing an IP address, and it does this by allocating certain ports to each user. Which makes port forwarding impossible. For most things that don't require direct IP connection, this won't affect you, but for those who needs to open ports then it will block you from doing this.

There is IPv6 but I haven't had a proper look in the Linksys settings if it can port forward via that.
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It seems you got lucky. I finally managed to a date out of them and it is end of August. So CGNAT for me it seems. Not that it will matter for my use case, but still :(

I always did think what is the point of IPv6, never see it being used. Should that be not used instead?
 
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