Up and running

Had a good experience on Monday morning. Initially noticed a M J Quinn Openreach van outside a neighbour’s house around 9:00am, my appointment was 1:00pm onwards. Looking out again around 10:30 and the Engineer was atop of the pole outside our house. Waited for him to descend and he asked if he could make an earlier start!

I gave him my requests, remove copper drop-wire, fit the CSP inside the garage and run the internal fibre through about 5 metres of 25 mm pvc conduit. He was happy to oblige and all connected up by 12:30. Tea, biccies and Eccles Cakes on hand.

I ordered A&A’s 1000/115 service, which I thought if nothing else will stress test my kit. So far this appears to show that the Technicolor DGA0122 Router supplied by A&A has better download speed capability than my DrayTek Vigor2762ac Router. However that was using a Dell Win10 64-bit pc in the garage rather than my home office pc which is somewhat better. Unfortunately I need to arrange for an additional Cat5/6 cable to serve that pc direct from the Technicolor router (which has 4 LAN + 1 WAN ports) compared to the DrayTek’s 3 LAN + 1 WAN, currently via a gigabit switch.

I will update in due course.

Some photos: https://ancient-mariner.co.uk/public/2023.08.01%20-%... and https://ancient-mariner.co.uk/public/2023.08.01%20-%...

For info, the external drop-fibre(?) dimensions are 5.3 mm x 3.1 mm (the previous single-pair drop-wire was 5.4 mm diameter) and the internal fibre (black) is 5.0 mm dia. overall and after strip back the white inner is 2.85 mm dia.

Cheers!

Edited by Ancient_Mariner (Wed 02-Aug-23 14:41:44)

Does that pair of flourescent give issues in any way?

Not to my knowledge.

Over the next few days I intend a thorough speed test with the two routers together with a few speed test sites.

My pc's etc are all hard wired, the Tapo remote switches that I use are via a separate WIFI access point.

Cheers!

Looks good, enjoy!

I have over the years come acorss situations where flourecent lamps cause issues with a wide range of devices. The "noise" can be enough to saturate the front end of a radio receiver - in your case the WAP, or even have a nasty effect o the Ethernet. Just with the lights sitting there with WAP antenna each side ...

When you run your speed tests, look carefully at upstream too, with lights on and off.

And maybe try a Wireless test from 10m away - lights on and off and see if there are noticable differences.


And I have not forgotten how much you know on RF either!

AFAIK your Draytek 2762 is limited to 300Mbs WAN throughput. I had a similar situation and moved to a Draytek 2927 as it has 950Mb WAN throughput on each WAN port.
Have to say though, your setup looks very neat !

Yeah i was thinking of the lights too but you asked the question as well.. And yes Clive did a fab neat job - jell and impressed 👍👌

Welcome to the full fibre club. We have been looking for someone to represent the growing number of members, know anyone extremely good at doing that?

I like the way you put it all on a board, I would do that if I had my own place, able to router the cables though the walls and floors.

Very tidy job, looks great.