Community Fibre
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Nope, no issues with Disney+ in my six months with them.
Had this yesterday also. Images on certain websites would take ages to load. I put it down to something dodgy going on with CGNAT.
Have had a few small issues like this with them. With Virgin it always worked.
We might be selling and buying a bigger house soon so might end up back with Virgin anyway as only half the houses I have shortlisted have Community Fibre and all have Virgin
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At least with VM they don't even have IPv6 so don't have to worry about thatHad this yesterday also. Images on certain websites would take ages to load. I put it down to something dodgy going on with CGNAT.
Have had a few small issues like this with them. With Virgin it always worked.
We might be selling and buying a bigger house soon so might end up back with Virgin anyway as only half the houses I have shortlisted have Community Fibre and all have Virgin
How is everyones experience with CF so far? I've had it since around August and no issues, except I can't port forward but thats fixed by a tunneling service. I see a lot of bad reviews on some of these networking forums for CF, but I havent had any issues.
Guys how long does it take to install Community Fibre?..I've checked and it's available on my street in London, my Virgin BB expires 1st March contract wise, so thinking of giving them 30 days notice at end of Jan, does CF take more then 4 weeks to get up and running from applying online?
What has your experience been like time wise?
What has your experience been like time wise?
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Go to their site and input details to see how long until install available now to get an idea. Should not be more than a few days and on the day should be an hour or less unless you have special requirements.
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At least with VM they don't even have IPv6 so don't have to worry about that
I think VM do have some form of IPv6, there are a few threads about it here and how its caused major issues for many especially with 3rd party routers or with pfsense/opensense etc
Disabling IPv6 apparently does not work either, it can break the connection or cause other issues.
There is another thread where someone mentioned VM tried to enable IPv6 and found it wasn't working right so left it or partially removed it so it would not break more connections, but this could just be hear say talk not sure.
I hope if CF or VM do IPv6 they do plenty of testing and trial and error!
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When I joined I had a pick of install dates ranging from a few days later to a couple of weeks so I just picked one that suited me.
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I forgot to update, but about a week after I found out IPv6 wasn't properly working any more (no issues since install in June all the way to Dec), I noticed my CF connection went down. Restarted both modem and router, decided to turn back on IPv6 and everything was working completely fine again.
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I’ve not had any issues. I like you couldn’t initially port forward but I queried it with them and they have switched me over so that I now can.
Just seems to work for but I have noticed that if you lodge a support ticket it takes them about a week to reply.
Latest tickets logged is I want a longer fiber drop cable, current is too short and the install engineer had run out of longer, took them a week to reply with an Amazon link telling me to buy it from there. Second ticket is my current months bill is higher than normal and again they’ve not replied yet.
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Stuck with the provided router since it's pretty decent for an ISP supplied one (Linksys Velop MX4200). I'm not using the WiFi (using UniFi APs instead for coverage reasons) but when I did test it, it was around ~800mb when in the same room.
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Own router
Guys finally have CF coming Friday for installation, I ended up with free installation and 1 Gig speed for 25 quid a month. My Virgin contract ends 14th of Feb so have one more payment with them, they offered me a crappy deal of 125m speed and weekends free phone calls for £38 a month, waiting time was over a hour and that was with Virgin autobot messenger. Glad I'm moving to CF Friday 
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I'll try and use my own router after it is up and running.
.I'll try and use my own router after it is up and running.
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I’ve only got 150mbs and they gave me a CF branded Linksys MX5500. I also have an MX5600 as a Wi-Fi repeater.
I have powerline adapters which has Wif-Fi extenders as well, but my Wi-Fi is good without the extenderss on, my Wi-Fi on the router reaches every room, I probably do a speed test with Wifi and my powerline adaptors ethernet wise for top room and see which is faster, guess I could also turn on the Wi-Fi extenders to see if that speeds the Wi-Fi up as well.
Regardless will be faster then my 120Mb speed I have at the moment with Virgin since I'll be on 1Gb package.
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I'm up and running with the Community Fibre, I removed the white Linksys mx5400 router which sits on top of their modem and plugged the ethernet cable from their modem to the WAN port on my TP Link router and was up and running within a minute or so . My wifi speed is actually faster then my wired powerline adaptors, so I will be running an ethernet cable from bottom of house where the router is to the top floor so I get the full 1Gb speed, regardless it's over twice as fast as my Virgin speeds and cheaper monthly .
Very impressed how quick it was all installed, also snappier on webpage loading and no settings to change on my router , my router was already set to DHCP, all it needed was power off and reboot.
. My wifi speed is actually faster then my wired powerline adaptors, so I will be running an ethernet cable from bottom of house where the router is to the top floor so I get the full 1Gb speed, regardless it's over twice as fast as my Virgin speeds and cheaper monthly .Very impressed how quick it was all installed, also snappier on webpage loading and no settings to change on my router
, my router was already set to DHCP, all it needed was power off and reboot.
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