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For a company that tries to pride its self on transparency the ball really has dropped recently. The FireBrick platform has some good features but the trade off is an unstable internet connection at a premium cost. I’m rooting for the team to get things fixed but they might have to go back to the drawing board and admit the current platform isn’t going to work for customers. Noticeable speed drops, connection drops and lack of transparency is making me heavily reconsider who I go with next. It won’t be A&A.
Is speed not stable then? Some peeps I know who joined AAISP in 2022, were saying it was great, but thats bad news if speeds arent sustained anymore on AAISP FTTP.
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A selling point of A&A is the L2TP service that you can use if your primary service goes down. I don't know how easy it would be to provide that sort of functionality if you remove the "session" element of PPPoE and resort to DHCP. Maybe the easiest way to achieve it would be to have the L2TP and FTTP service allocate different IP addresses and relying on the end user to run a routing protocol to use their subnet on whatever connection they decided they wanted it on.
You dont need PPP auth for that, I use personal VPN setup's authing with a certificate, but it can also be done in other ways as well, I do echo XGS questions on the PPP, and with the contents of this thread have some doubts about my FTTP order with AAISP as well, the thing saving the order right now is that AAISP is only a 1 month commit, if it was the normal 18+ months I think I would have pulled the plug.
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Is that with CityFibre then? Openreach is still showing as 12 months on their website.
https://www.aa.net.uk/broadband/home1/
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Yes its a CF order, states 1 month on AAISP's website, I probably will get conformation from sales, but I am pretty sure they already told me its 1 month as well.
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Yes, it's shown as only 1 month for CF, I'm sure you are right in that case.
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I keep getting hopped over different LNS devices and it’s a bit of a lottery. I am paying for 1GB internet and I’m lucky if I get 330MB. Some days it’s 200. I had the same router and ONT with wholesale TalkTalk and I was getting 800MBs. It feels like a downgrade.
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Apparently Yayzi dont use PPPoE which has got my attention, so seems there is at least one ISP out there that isnt a Sky, VM or TT that uses IPoE.
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I keep getting hopped over different LNS devices and it’s a bit of a lottery. I am paying for 1GB internet and I’m lucky if I get 330MB. Some days it’s 200. I had the same router and ONT with wholesale TalkTalk and I was getting 800MBs. It feels like a downgrade.
Ok I think you have a different issue, if those kind of speeds were common place we would be hearing about it, seems like a potential provisioning issue to me, I would contact AAISP support about it.
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Just for clarity I also have experienced the LNS stalling issues I was told they are looking into it and they had added NVMe drives to some of the LNS systems to get things resolved.
I have contacted support about the speed issues but have been told it’s my WiFi. Again same unit as my previous ISP. I suspect it’s due to BT Openreach being my carrier instead of TalkTalk Business which had LLU’d the local exchange. I suspect that’s how I’ve been able to get better connectivity in the past. I was originally provisioned to the incorrect LNS by A&A they did fix it but I still get speed drops.
Like I said when it comes to contract renewal I’ll be looking elsewhere.
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Whilst there's technical reasons to keep PPP in the BTW and TTB networks that would be harder if it was a pure layer 2 delivery (at least in my opinion), they both do offer VLAN based handover on their EoFTTx products - which attract a fair premium, and they probably want to keep EoFTTx as their premium offering to maintain that extra profit margin, which would incentivise keeping PPP in place for their less premium offerings.
FTTx is already handed over on the L2S in the exchange as a VLAN anyway.
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