Community Fibre

TNA said:
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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I was talking about that CGNAT thing more so, and CF isn't available to me anyway yet, and BT fibre will likely be in my area first, I was just saying CF will likely get sucked up that is all.
 
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beachBOYken said:
I was talking about that CGNAT thing more so, and CF isn't available to me anyway yet, and BT fibre will likely be in my area first, I was just saying CF will likely get sucked up that is all.
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Haha, fair enough. Do you do port forwarding or anything that would have an impact on you? :)

So you have openreach building FTTP in your area also? Lucky!
 
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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You kind of twisted my words there, I was talking about CGNAT. CF isn't available to me either yet. All I was saying is CF will possibly be sucked up by BT/Virgin/Sky. I wasn't concerned about price.
 
TNA said:
Haha, fair enough. Do you do port forwarding or anything that would have an impact on you? :)

So you have openreach building FTTP in your area also? Lucky!
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Nope, if thats what its for not an issue for me then.

Ive not checked on BT fibre yet, need to phone them. I did see a ton of BT vans done my street a month back, no idea what they were doing. the checker still says by 2026 for me. But I might move to BT FTTC for now, providing I can get a similar speed to what I have.
 
beachBOYken said:
Nope, if thats what its for not an issue for me then.

Ive not checked on BT fibre yet, need to phone them. I did see a ton of BT vans done my street a month back, no idea what they were doing. the checker still says by 2026 for me. But I might move to BT FTTC for now, providing I can get a similar speed to what I have.
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My FTTC to my house is atrocious unfortunately. Only option is Virgin if you want decent speed.

Dying for community fibre to arrive. Hope they stick to end of August based on theirs plans.
 
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TNA said:
My FTTC to my house is atrocious unfortunately. Only option is Virgin if you want decent speed.

Dying for community fibre to arrive. Hope they stick to end of August based on theirs plans.
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Who you with currently?

I have VM 350 and its been perfect for years, just the price is a little high, I want to see what BT can offer and then if Im prepared to switch I will go the cancel route and see what deals come my way, if not switch to BT.
Its amazing how many times they call up when you cancel, my brother did it recently when he switched to BT full fibre, they must have phoned him at least 5 times in the space of 2 days.
 
jonneymendoza said:
why did comunity fibre enable CGNAT?

is there a workaround it?

Seems like it offers no benefit at all

When did they enable this and how can i check if i have it?

i got my line setup around march
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Won't have a impact on you. It benefits them due to a lact of Ip4 addresses which costs them money to buy is my understanding.

Read the posts above explains everything.
 
beachBOYken said:
Who you with currently?

I have VM 350 and its been perfect for years, just the price is a little high, I want to see what BT can offer and then if Im prepared to switch I will go the cancel route and see what deals come my way, if not switch to BT.
Its amazing how many times they call up when you cancel, my brother did it recently when he switched to BT full fibre, they must have phoned him at least 5 times in the space of 2 days.
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I recently left Virgin. Was also on 350mb. Was paying £25 a month but I also have a O2 sim. They wanted £29 for 1GB. I told them Community Fibre which have a better network are offering that for £25. They said sorry we can't match them. I did not want to enter into a new 18 month contract so I left.
 
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TNA said:
You can laugh, but actually... You get the best response from their twitter team when you dm them. It is not just me saying this, others say it too and it has worked for me.
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Sadly have to agree with this. Their actual website is rather basic. You don't even get an account or anything to easily check bills and contract details. Seems to be mainly phone or social media.
 
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TNA said:
I recently left Virgin. Was also on 350mb. Was paying £25 a month but I also have a O2 sim. They wanted £29 for 1GB. I told them Community Fibre which have a better network are offering that for £25. They said sorry we can't match them. I did not want to enter into a new 18 month contract so I left.
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Yeah, far too many companies are like that. BT for me. When I called up asking about offers, I got all sorts of crappy deals, worse than what I was paying for (or barely comparable to what I was already paying which was already extortionate for not that much). Then CF and 900/900 became available and jumped ship. THEN offers were available... :rolleyes:

But it was far too late at that point, as they couldn't compete on price for what performance I'd be getting (BT has no FTTP infrastructure around where I am, so £25 for 1gb was not only impossible to match price, they couldn't match any of the higher band speeds). So the best they could do was compete on the 100/100 package CF has through GFast, but the 100/100 package was going for what amounted to as £12.50 (with VOIP), which BT knew they couldn't offer (with their £60 odd a month GFast at the time), not for another 6 years until Openreach "mishgt" finally would even look to install FTTP here that is (£900 for 6 years vs £4320 odd).

Companies really need to see the picture; some would be OK to staying, even with minor discounts to avoid the hassle of changing. But when you're outcompeted, you really have nothing to blame but yourself over the loss of a long time customer who was effectively giving you free money.
 
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If they using CGNAT you’ll be assigned a private address, they do this on mobile networks.

Check your router for the address assigned to you.

If it is private you have no way to do inbound NAT/PAT as your not actually at the public edge.

Explains why fixed address isn’t an option.
 
beachBOYken said:
You kind of twisted my words there, I was talking about CGNAT. CF isn't available to me either yet. All I was saying is CF will possibly be sucked up by BT/Virgin/Sky. I wasn't concerned about price.
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I think this is overstated a lot, but I really don't see CF being bought up in the current climate. The entire value proposition is based on have a third competitor in the open access market, Sky have just signed an exclusivity deal for the next 3 years with BT and Virgin are pushing ahead with their Nexfibre business to roll out FTTP. CF have a real opportunity to be a strong competitor to BT/Virgin (Sky just want the best access deal they can have, they clearly don't want to run their own access network).
 
CF in this thread means Community Fibre, and I think you're talking about Cityfibre. Community Fibre don't wholesale and their agreements with MDUs are pretty lucrative, I doubt they're getting acquired any time soon because they just aren't a good fit for a wholesale provider with a national focus. In the same way Hyperoptic have avoided being an acquisition target.
 
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