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YouFibre
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Orange means the WAN is connected at 2.5Gb.
Got You2000 installed last week and upgraded to You8000 (I absolutely don't need it but cant say no for £50/month 
). The ONT is connected to my Intel X550-t2 (pfsense) and flashes blue for the 10G link but my download is stuck at 2Gbps and upload is only 4Gbps 
). The ONT is connected to my Intel X550-t2 (pfsense) and flashes blue for the 10G link but my download is stuck at 2Gbps and upload is only 4Gbps
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This, always this
I absolutely don't need it but cant say no for £50/month
A number of time I said to my self I don't need it but in the end I thought why not, it was still cheaper than my old GigFibre rate from VM when they would no longer discount me.
YF just switched it on, zero pain, apart from the bill of course
took about 5 mins, refreshingly quick for YF, I was ready with backup internet and everything Download seems solid, upload a little more bursty
Needs some power to use that speed downloading on Steam, CPU gets hammered but 100Gb down pretty quickly
When is wifi 8 out, this just won't do
not sure why upload is always so bad on handhelds.
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love it, i'm at 2.5G NICs, i need to upgrade 1 end device to 10G .. then life will be completeA number of time I said to my self I don't need it but in the end I thought why not, it was still cheaper than my old GigFibre rate from VM when they would no longer discount me.
YF just switched it on, zero pain, apart from the bill of course
Download seems solid, upload a little more bursty
Needs some power to use that speed downloading on Steam, CPU gets hammered but 100Gb down pretty quickly
When is wifi 8 out, this just won't do
Those 8000 package speeds are mental. We finally got ours installed a week ago and going from speeds around 100-200 in different places to symmetrical gigabit is way beyond any needs we have. The supplied WiFi 7 router gives me coverage that extends a decent way down the street.
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And that's great. It's important to buy for the use-case, imho. Not only does it make more sense, but it's cheaper on equipment as well as the package itself. My sister recently asked me about the 1 gig 'deal' VM were hounding her about, but I told her not to spend a penny more than the (100 Mbps?) package she already had.
She said they told her she'd go faster. I asked her "Faster at what?". She listed off the usual suspects — Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube on her phone... Yeah, no. I mean you want some overhead for TCP ramp-up and initial burst/buffer-fill, but 100Mbps is ample for that. WTF would she do with a gigabit pipe over WiFi to her phone (she has no PC/laptop)?
She understood in the end. My homelab on the other hand? What do you mean, they still *ONLY* do 8Gbps? LOL...
And that's great. It's important to buy for the use-case, imho. Not only does it make more sense, but it's cheaper on equipment as well as the package itself. My sister recently asked me about the 1 gig 'deal' VM were hounding her about, but I told her not to spend a penny more than the (100 Mbps?) package she already had.
She said they told her she'd go faster. I asked her "Faster at what?". She listed off the usual suspects — Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube on her phone... Yeah, no. I mean you want some overhead for TCP ramp-up and initial burst/buffer-fill, but 100Mbps is ample for that. WTF would she do with a gigabit pipe over WiFi to her phone (she has no PC/laptop)?
My homelab on the other hand? What do you mean, they still *ONLY* do 8Gbps? LOL...
Always need more for a home lab. Second connection viable?
I've considered a cheap Openreach package as failover, as we have the fibre and ONT already. Ultimately, YouFibre's been so reliable I haven't bothered getting around to it (yet?). My uptime is at 99.99% for the last 365 days, and I only dropped that far because that particular monitor's on a local Proxmox box rather than off-prem (Alpine LXC ftw). One thing I really dislike about Proxmox/Debian in general is that it's (ironically) rather fast-moving for my taste. My *EL boxes are set to security updates only, and only need rebooting for a 20 seconds a few times a year.Always need more for a home lab. Second connection viable?
I need to move the uptime monitor now I think of it. I've already got a server in Manchester INX running smokeping, so it may as well go on there. At least then, local server updates (outside of the network edge) don't affect the results.
Damn, I can't wait until mine is fixed! Customer service leaves a lot to be desired but apparently it's an ONT config issueA number of time I said to my self I don't need it but in the end I thought why not, it was still cheaper than my old GigFibre rate from VM when they would no longer discount me.
YF just switched it on, zero pain, apart from the bill of course
Download seems solid, upload a little more bursty
Indeed CS are not the best informed, I was told I needed a new router etc to get You 8000, I had to inform them that no I have all the appropriate hardware already, installed as part of the 2gb install I already have, explained what the ONT was and what the Router was after that they were happy to upgrade me.
I still had to go through re confirmation that my phone can't be used in emergency etc too, I mean I know this, I already have it and we have done this for my prior install.
So yeah, CS, not the best but perhaps they don't document what each user has.
Had the complete opposite
Chap on the phone upgraded for me on the Saturday at end of day when I called upgraded me in 2 mins, said it's going live in 30 days as you just hit the billing cycle, as you already have your own 10G capable router to call in Monday and the tech team will flip the switch
I called Monday and this lovely lady said ..hold my beer, 2 mins later, all done your ONT is syncing at 10G
Hope I dont have to ever speak to them again
Chap on the phone upgraded for me on the Saturday at end of day when I called upgraded me in 2 mins, said it's going live in 30 days as you just hit the billing cycle, as you already have your own 10G capable router to call in Monday and the tech team will flip the switch
I called Monday and this lovely lady said ..hold my beer, 2 mins later, all done your ONT is syncing at 10G
Hope I dont have to ever speak to them again