Community Fibre
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Would mean you can get away with 2.5gb networking gear as well. It's so weird that home networking could now be the bottleneck compared to the internet connection.
Exactly.
To be honest I find 1gb to be plenty as it is. But I feel for £35 it would be fair to get the extra speed and be rid of cgnat.
Not like how much data I use has changed going from my old virgin 380mb line to this. Nothing would change again. Just would mean my download would complete faster making the line mostly idle for even longer.
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I dont even thing the hardware that commuity fibre gives u can outpout more than 2.5gb on its router.....
You need a 10gbit router mate
Not sure what you mean. The 3gb package comes with a different router that supports it just fine. They would just provide you that or a 2.5gb router.
Not checked the current router but I don't even think it has 2.5gb ethernet port. It is designed for 1gb or less I think.
Would be happy buying my own router anyway if it meant I can get 2gb without cgnat for £35. But £49 is just a bit too much.
Besides, since that day where everything disconnected my service has been rock solid as far as I can tell.
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Which loops back to this question... what is the model
?According to CF's support page, it's a Technicolor FGA5330. Technicolour rebranded as Vantiva, with the router being rebranded as Gazelle X, the (very basic) product page is here: https://www.vantiva.com/solutions/fiber-gateways/
It does state 10gb support so it won't bottleneck their 3gb package. Wonder if that means they do eventually plan for even faster packages, their current ONT models supports 10gb too.
Which loops back to this question... what is the model
According to CF's support page, it's a Technicolor FGA5330. Technicolour rebranded as Vantiva, with the router being rebranded as Gazelle X, the (very basic) product page is here: https://www.vantiva.com/solutions/fiber-gateways/
It does state 10gb support so it won't bottleneck their 3gb package. Wonder if that means they do eventually plan for even faster packages, their current ONT models supports 10gb too.
They already have it for businesses. Only £795 per month
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Does that router have a 10gbit ethernet port that can be connected back to a computer? Or does it only have 1 10gbit which is used up already by the modemWhich loops back to this question... what is the model
According to CF's support page, it's a Technicolor FGA5330. Technicolour rebranded as Vantiva, with the router being rebranded as Gazelle X, the (very basic) product page is here: https://www.vantiva.com/solutions/fiber-gateways/
It does state 10gb support so it won't bottleneck their 3gb package. Wonder if that means they do eventually plan for even faster packages, their current ONT models supports 10gb too.
It has to have it dude. How else would one get the advertised 3gb? Am I missing something here?
Soldato
Based on the FCC report, there's one available 10gb port for customer use: https://fcc.report/FCC-ID/RSE-FGA5330/4705137.pdf
I would assume the other ports (yellow) are possibly gigabit only.
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Is it the red port that's the 10gbit?
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Red is WAN. The 10G port the grey port below that. And below that is a fibre port.
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Ahh right ok cool. But if you wanted to connect more than one device to make use of oder 1gb connection you would need a new router
Soldato
Alternatively a 10gb switch. Granted that single 10gb connection between the router and and switch will end up being the bottleneck, but it won't matter much unless you have an internet connection beyond 10gb.
Hello all, welcome to all ideas!
I recently joined CF, so have a CGNAT account, as have no need or equipment for 3Gbit networks.
After the first couple of days being able to sustain 1Gb speeds via LAN (eg 30Gbytes download consistently at max speeds), I can no longer do this. Speed tests are fine and the first 1-3Gb of download is fine, then I get a almost square-shaped traffic pattern. Full speed for a second, then ZERO for 1 second.
This is not using torrent, so there should not be a high number of simultaneous connections, which I understand can cause issues for CGNAT.
They might not be using traffic shaping but could they be using other traffic management / Rate Limiting ?
I recently joined CF, so have a CGNAT account, as have no need or equipment for 3Gbit networks.
After the first couple of days being able to sustain 1Gb speeds via LAN (eg 30Gbytes download consistently at max speeds), I can no longer do this. Speed tests are fine and the first 1-3Gb of download is fine, then I get a almost square-shaped traffic pattern. Full speed for a second, then ZERO for 1 second.
This is not using torrent, so there should not be a high number of simultaneous connections, which I understand can cause issues for CGNAT.
They might not be using traffic shaping but could they be using other traffic management / Rate Limiting ?
Soldato
Huh, I haven't noticed any traffic shaping at all, and I've been doing a lot of game downloads that are easily 50gb+, and this is for both PC and PS5, both connected by ethernet. Even on my Steam Deck, although limited by its slower wifi, doesn't get throttled at all.
Is this only happening on one PC? How is it connected to the router? SSD or HDD?
It could be your storage. An SSD should be able to sustain 100MB/s write, even over a SATA interface. In fact I know they can. It might be worth checking the SMART report on your storage device(s) to see if there are any errors. If not, try doing a local transfer to the same device from an external SSD and see if it exhibits the same behaviour.
As I said my set up can support it. File being saved and temp drive are both SSD. Not SMART errors, one drive is only a month old.
Disk to disk transfer well over 1Gbit/s (150+MB/s).
Are you also behind CGNAT?
Connection is wired to PC. Tested last night. It did about the first 9GB of a transfer before the erratic pattern started, when that happens the average speed over a min is about 60MB/s rather than ~110MB/s