Community Fibre

beachBOYken said:
Do you hardwire xbox to network?

Wondered if MS/XBOX cap the the speed on xbox or if you can max you ISP speed. I connect over wifi and always got an average of 150-180mbps on my Virgin 350 line, but moved up to 500 package and get a around 250-300mbps now over wifi, not bad, downloaded Starfield in no time.

If I had the connections available, I would test the speed via cable.
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I don't have an Xbox but my PC is connected via ethernet to my 1Gbps connection and I get a max of about 50MB/sec (though it fluctuates wildly) when downloading Game Pass games. Steam and the PS5 will usually max it out though.
 
TNA said:
Just an update. Install went smoothly. Was 3 young lads. All done in under an hour as I recall.

I get around 930-935mb. Nice 2ms pings to BBC website. Virgin was like 4-5 times worse than that.

That was a long wait from the time they popped the leaflet in the door back in Feb/Mar but it is done now and well worth the wait :D
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Good stuff! Yeah my install had a few apprentices learning from the main people (5 in total!). Your wait is in line with mine, as I got the leaflet in October and by April I got installed. The worst bit is seeing them run the cable in the street wondering when will it finally get here!!

If you set up a ThinkBroadband Quality Monitor on your line, you'll be able to see the pings (min, max and average) are really close together indicating a really good service. Reminds me to go check mine now.
 
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moogle said:
Good stuff! Yeah my install had a few apprentices learning from the main people (5 in total!). Your wait is in line with mine, as I got the leaflet in October and by April I got installed. The worst bit is seeing them run the cable in the street wondering when will it finally get here!!

If you set up a ThinkBroadband Quality Monitor on your line, you'll be able to see the pings (min, max and average) are really close together indicating a really good service. Reminds me to go check mine now.
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Thanks man. Yeah, that was the worst. I thought, must be soon, but kept dragging on. At least I did not give up and get into another 18 month contract with Virgin like @beachBOYken :cry:

I left them mid June and been suffering on unlimited mobile sims since. Those are perfectly fine for browsing, but poor at download speeds.

Will give the ThinkBroadband Quality Monitor a go soon :)
 
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@TNA After me thinking it was CF installing in my area, it seems it was BT full fibre, just had email to say its live now in my street, typically I signed up to VM just a month ago!

Oh well, see the lay of the land in a years time.:)
 
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mi9tchy said:
community fibre is live on all the roads surrounding mine but open infra seem to be ones installing on my road
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You'll get it soon. It's Shrodingers fibre, the more you look the longer it'll take :D

Check the streetworks map in your area it might give an indication when they're planning to work in your street. I think Kelly Communications were contracted on behalf of CF when I was looking at the upcoming roadworks in my area. I've said in a previous post it took about 6 months from cable running date to available install to give you an idea of the lead time.
 
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Community fibre were doing stuff in the road feb 2022 and I asked what the guy was doing, seen them doing 'something' numerous times since then, theyre in branded community fibre vans/kelly communitications and various other contractors
 
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jonneymendoza said:
Wow I was about to post here to say yes I lost connection! However it's working now as soon as I reconnect the community fibre router. I normally use my mikrotik
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Your not on CGNAT are you? Maybe not related to cgnat as I thought.

I am using the community fibre router and had the issue. Don't think it is related to the router. Loads of others having the issue it seems.
 
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