Community Fibre
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Community Fibre working on the corner of my street at the green box, by the time my VM contract is up should have a good choice for full fibre, typical though that I hold for ages waiting for full fibre, decide to resign with VM and 3 weeks later BT full fibre is live and now CF are doing stuff, lol.
I can't even use that as on CGNAT. Lol
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We're in the same area but mine was working fine around that time. I guess I got lucky based on reports though.
Yep. Weird how that works. Jonney is further away than you are from me and got it before you, yet he had issues too.
I thought I would be on CGNAT as well since I got in so early! That's a shame yes, I haven't looked too much into it but I take it means you couldn't host servers with port forwarding right?
The installers are being trained so quickly so the quality isn't amazing, however that should hopefully clear up and when that is sorted the reliability (network wise, not physical damage) is okay. In my anecdotal view currently CF are behind BT (FTTP) in terms of reliability then TalkTalk and then Virgin Media.Last time they went down (a few weeks ago), turned out they clipped a wire doing some work round the corner. They do go down quite a bit more than Virgin but still worth it for 1GB up and down.
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I received a flyer though the door recently and yes they are available in my area. I had a chat with them and forgot to ask a question (I also read through this thread and didn't see it mentioned here): how does CF identify individual customers/connections? Obviously on Openreach they use RADIUS because the infrastructure is shared across multiple providers (at least up to a certain point), but how does CF do it?
I had a chat with them and forgot to ask a question (I also read through this thread and didn't see it mentioned here): how does CF identify individual customers/connections? Obviously on Openreach they use RADIUS because the infrastructure is shared across multiple providers (at least up to a certain point), but how does CF do it?So is this tag programmed into the ONT or modem? Is it associated with my account when I sign up?
On Openreach infrastructure, my ISP account credentials are entered into the modem e.g. [email protected] or [email protected], which authenticates at a RADIUS server on Openreach´s network. If CF do not use this mechanism, how do they know to associate (for example) daily or monthly traffic volumes to my specific account?
Openreach do not require PPPoE, and those credentials are not seen by any Openreach equipment. They insert a tag onto the traffic and this is how the ISP determines what traffic flows belong to what subscriber. This is how Community Fibre will also work.
OK, so in the case of CF (or other fibre ISPs) what inserts the tag? Is it the ONT in the property? The box on the telegraph pole? Something further upstream?
Have you considered simple curiosity?But why are you asking is the question
They obviously have a system in place.
For those on the 3GB plan, can someone confirm exactly what router is supplied with installations? A model number of the Technicolor router would be great.
I'm trying to figure out whether I can put together the hardware to justify the package.
I'm trying to figure out whether I can put together the hardware to justify the package.
Lol agreed on the need. It would be more to be free of CGNAT than actually needing 3GB.Looks like you'll be the first!
No one will ever need 3GBit /s
Also, I'm paying the equivalent of the 3GB package on BT at the moment for 500MB! However, I'm flip-flopping and just not sure whether I'd really justify 3GB and throwing away money each month.