toob users, what router did you get given by them? Just been installed, they left me a Linksys Velop MX4200

Looks like toob is doewn for most of SE as of around 05:30 this morning. Currently using my phone's data connection via USB tether and wifi hotspot (work laptop for WFH), kinda glad mobile networks and phones these days can offer super fast data connections :p
 
They had 2 planbned maintenance days last week which was communicated by email btw, it was in the late hours after 1am.

This week's downtime was a big network outage with one of their switches which didn't failover correctly going by the email we got sent last night. Was down for a few hours:
 
Do you have a BQM enabled to track how often it happens and if it's the same time each time?
 
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Looks like toob have suffered a major outage this week, affecting everything inc their own site etc... Switched to EE backup (phone tether).

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They have posted on twitter:

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Now back.
 
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We will likely get an email this evening explaining what the cause was this time round.
 
All been fine as of late, the BQM is also flat now apart from the instances of heavy downloading or uploading.

All's well in the world. Still can't believe it's £25 a month really, good mesh router provided too, yet to need to reboot it a single time. The best part is uploading media at 117MB/s, bit of a game changer from the 12-15MB/s that I was getting on VM Gig1 :cool:
 
5-6ms seems the average ping whereas I was seeing 4-5ms before - Seems fairly nominal variance really. Still get full speeds up and down.
 
About 6 months, assuming no doddery residents object to fibre being laid or a pole being put up in their area which requires much political faffery etc.
 
The latency is the same basically as any other fibre provider, you can expect 4-8ms variance in latency depending on how busy your network is I'd say but most will see ~6ms.

This is my 24hr snapshot of an average weekday where 1 connected PC is gaming essentially all evening:

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4PM yesterday had some up/down traffic hence those spikes.

Speedtest right now:

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The ones like the other week happen infrequently really. I can recall more outages with virgin media for example or sluggish performance, especially with DNS resolution. Nothing of that magnitude here so far. There was that one major outage months ago but that was related to a rack power issue if I remember the statement that came out after it was sorted.

Otherwise a solid service, and one machine downloading something at 100MB/s does not seem to impact the machine gaming etc too. Plus the symmetrical upload speed has been hugely beneficial as I upload to youtube a lot and an average video can be 20-30GB.
 
You can only get the BQM working if you have a static IP, if you did not opt for a static IP at a few quid extra a month then by default you're on a shared IP and BQM won't work.

You can add an IPV6 address into the BQM to monitor though and see if that works as only IP4 is on the CG-NAT. Filtering anon internet requests is the option on the router's control panel in security.
 
Good shout, yeah forgot that literally everything can have its own net facing ipv6 address :p
 
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