New plusnet line modem recommendation

[rob77]

Hi guys

I've just transferred from vodafone to plusnet fibre and I thought that I was connected to a huawei cabinet. After testing it with an unlocked hg612 and looking at line stats it comes back as an eci cabinet. I have switched the modem back to an old eci I have had since 2013 or so as I thought this would be a better match. I kinda miss having the stats shown so was wondering what others on an eci cabinet use? I see the draytek gets good reviews but would it be a good match for my cab?

Also when I first got fibre years ago when it first became available I was getting the full 80Mb down. Over time it's just dropped and dropped and now sits at 53Mb. It's stable and the pings are great just wondered why the drop. Changing providers over the years has made no effect. I don't think I have a noisy line either but would need to test.

Cheers

 

[rob77]

Thanks mate

I too run pfsense but on its own hardware. It took my line around 3 days for it to settle and I was getting around 46Mb down, now it's 53Mb with better pings. Do you know what type cab you are connected to?

 

[rob77]

Thanks Stephanie

It's a little Celeron pc with 6 x lan ports that pfsense runs on. No throttling as even downloading over openvpn uses only 10% cpu.

 

[rob77]

Thanks TJM

Yes I have the split data port that the bt engineer installed. I've plugged in the HG612 and speed has dropped a tiny bit but nothing much really. I've now got full stats to be able to monitor it and see how it performs over time. Pings are roughly the same.