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There might be, but I may have gotten lucky as I haven't asked to not have CGNAT but I've managed to host some servers online and the TBB ping graph correctly detects my outages (such as when I upgrade the firmware on the router or I turn off the power if I'm adjusting the wiring where it is etc.) with a red spike in the graph showing packet loss to my router/ip.
 
I've renewed my 1gbps connection for another 24 months, didn't mind about the CGNAT issue given I'm not really using any services that would be hindered by it at this time (and my Synology when upgraded will likely be using Tailscale or some such to get by for external access when I finally get the upgrade). Was given 1 month free so only paying 23 months at £26 + £10 for the landline (as we need it for medical calls to and from GP and Hospitals for my mother). Didn't get through to a tech team to ask about why the change to CGNAT mid contract last time but felt it wasn't a big enough issue after working out the route for the new NAS later down the line.

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Strangely, looking at my router right now, it looks like I've been taken off of CGNAT. Really weird. Will keep an eye on it and see what happens. I did prior to renewing send a query to their online teams about it before they replied back to me and told me to call them up instead. So I wonder if this is them giving me back a public IP or if it's temporary only? Time will tell I guess. But certainly nice as I can make use of it if it remains.
 
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Nope, I don't have it on for mine and it works. The modem doesn't care what you plug into the WAN port to distribute the internet connection.
 
Hi everyone, I just wanted to say I've been a community fibre customer for the past year and few months, and it has been an amazing experience. If anyone has the option you should go for it, they have great prices, internet has always been great always been getting full-speed mostly getting 1ms-2ms pings to services.
 
I had the engineers visit yesterday and FTTP installed. It went pretty smoothly. Only minor thing is that the fibre is coming from the overhead lines as opposed to underground. When you are in a semi detached bungalow like me this means the cable can come across the neighbours field of view.
I have all my core networking gear in the loft room which I work from. But CM couldn't run the fibre to the loft. Fortunately I had wired CAT6 running from every room and terminating from the loft roo. SO it was only a matter of placing the fibre termination point and modem in the living room and connecting the CAT6 cable and restarting the OPNSense router.
 
Avathar77 said:
I had the engineers visit yesterday and FTTP installed. It went pretty smoothly. Only minor thing is that the fibre is coming from the overhead lines as opposed to underground. When you are in a semi detached bungalow like me this means the cable can come across the neighbours field of view.
I have all my core networking gear in the loft room which I work from. But CM couldn't run the fibre to the loft. Fortunately I had wired CAT6 running from every room and terminating from the loft roo. SO it was only a matter of placing the fibre termination point and modem in the living room and connecting the CAT6 cable and restarting the OPNSense router.
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I've overhead line from telegraph pole which seems normal in my area, Virgin use underground cabling when I was with them, I have used three routers so far , first was a TP Link AX20 (died a few months ago after 3 year warranty), then their Linksys router and now Asus TUF AX6000 router, ironically the only one that gave me issues was their supplied Linksys router , it would not connect at all even with modem working fine, red light all the time, anyway their CS tech support fixed the issue, had to do a full hard reset ,remove cables etc and reconnect them, big pain, both the TP Link and Asus router was setup in like minutes of install.

Been with them since Jan this year and no issues apart from the one above.

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Does anyone use a Draytek router with their CF connection? Only just got told last minute at work that one of our branches was getting CF business installed, and that they did not pay for a router, so we'll have to use our own. Got a spare Draytek out and tried connecting it to the ONT, and while the lights light up on both ends, it doesn't connect. I've set the WAN port to "Static or Dynamic IP", and IP to obtain automatically, but still no connection. Left it connected for now to see if it magically connects over the weekend and will contact support on Monday, but just wanted to see if there was any other setting I'm missing. Completely different settings from the Linksys I have at home, so couldn't properly compare the more advanced settings.

Edit: Finally fixed, management member who was in contact with CF was on holiday, when they arrived back they forwarded me the details. Was the static IP settings that was missing.
 
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Avathar77 said:
Is there an effect with CF being CGNAT and not having a unique public IP?
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To put it simply, the answer is: Yes.

Been with CF for a few years now. & recently (couple weeks or so) it seems I was moved from a dynamic public IP setup to a CGNAT private IP (all unknown to me @ the time).
My IP cams, NAS Box, ASUS Router and a few other bits of kit were inaccessible away from home. I didn't think much of it @ the time as was due to be away for work.

Got back yesterday, and after some investigation noticed that I was on CGNAT. left a note via the On-Line chat thingy & this afternoon received an apology email together with un update that I had now been put back onto a public dynamic IP.

I've checked & it seems that I am now back on a dynamic public IP.
 
For anyone who signed up to Community Fibre to take advantage of a gift voucher (e.g. switching via a comparison website) - how soon did you receive the voucher after switching?
 
caff said:
For anyone who signed up to Community Fibre to take advantage of a gift voucher (e.g. switching via a comparison website) - how soon did you receive the voucher after switching?
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Not sure if it was 3 or 6 months.
 
TNA said:
Not sure if it was 3 or 6 months.
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It said 3 months. I've tried chasing them but they're adamant that it's been sent, although they are investigating.

Just wondering how long it took peeps to receive theirs.
 
caff said:
For anyone who signed up to Community Fibre to take advantage of a gift voucher (e.g. switching via a comparison website) - how soon did you receive the voucher after switching?
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60 days after you start I think. Check the T&Cs it'll state it if they've changed it. I recall I got 2 vouchers on separate occasions a week or two within the timeframe.
 
Van Diemen said:
To put it simply, the answer is: Yes.

Been with CF for a few years now. & recently (couple weeks or so) it seems I was moved from a dynamic public IP setup to a CGNAT private IP (all unknown to me @ the time).
My IP cams, NAS Box, ASUS Router and a few other bits of kit were inaccessible away from home. I didn't think much of it @ the time as was due to be away for work.

Got back yesterday, and after some investigation noticed that I was on CGNAT. left a note via the On-Line chat thingy & this afternoon received an apology email together with un update that I had now been put back onto a public dynamic IP.

I've checked & it seems that I am now back on a dynamic public IP.
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How do you check if your in cgnat if your not running nas etc?
 
Does anyone know roughly how long it takes once the community fibre box has been install outside the property for them to actually installing it inside or what the next step is? I finally after many many many year of reaching out to CF managed to get them to come around today once the council granted them permission to dig up outside to clear a blockage that was preventing CF feeding through their cable, then straight after the engineer said he'll be putting the box on the wall. The metal cover they use to cover the cable on the initial front wall isn't the prettiest thing though, and part of the cable if still visible which I guess is normal and it wasn't I had someone who wasn't keen to do a tidier job.

I'm currently with Virgin as they were the only provider I could get who offered 1Gig speed, but when my renewal was up this month they wanted to hike my renewal price up to £43pm and obviously that increases in April this year and next - after paying £35pm - £38pm previously, I was phoning CF to see if they would connect my address, something I was trying for over 2-3 year.

Once I can order it i'll be going for the 3Gig and I have to say a do smile when I think that speed is also symmetrical unlike the 120Mb that I had with virgin. Even though I may not even fully take advantage of that upload speed, it's just feels better for me at least being able to move from Virgin. I've been wanting to do that for ages.
 
Mine was done on the same day? When you say install a box outside the property, is it on it or is this something in the streets?
 
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