Thanks for pointing that out, I was looking at Zens residential packages.

See? I *AM* worth it after all!

Edited by deleted (Sat 17-Jun-17 05:59:29)

Hi

On Fluidone's website there is now a page with their FFTPoD details.

They mention "QOS Bandwidth Management..." - could you shed some light on this? Do they give you a portal where you configure QOS settings for your traffic?

Thanks

In reply to a post by Bill100:

On Fluidone's website there is now a page with their FFTPoD details.

Indeed there is:

http://www.fluidone.com/data/plus-business-fttpod/

In reply to a post by Bill100:

They mention "QOS Bandwidth Management..." - could you shed some light on this? Do they give you a portal where you configure QOS settings for your traffic

I can't see any 'QoS Bandwidth Management' settings on my account portal but I will ask their support team more about this. I did ask them for a pure/unadulterated connection so shouldn't have any QoS applied to my service. If i did want QoS I could easily do this on my Netgear X10.

Probably the most useful feature I find on the portal is the 'WeatherMap' which gives a live snapshot view of the traffic load on their network between all the various nodes - I've never seen this go above 25%:

https://s1.postimg.org/6sew9oarz/weather_map.jpg

I can also see how much data I've used even though its an unmetered service:

https://s1.postimg.org/5f0pai8fj/usage_stats.jpg

Edited by deleted (Wed 21-Jun-17 22:11:34)

In reply to a post by Bill100:

They mention "QOS Bandwidth Management..." - could you shed some light on this?

Queried this with them, they said its disabled by default on all of their xDSL and FTTP services however they can enable it for a customer upon request.

Thanks for looking into that. Having your own online QOS system upstream could be a nice touch.

That "weather" graph looks quite interesting too.

Thanks for the information, it's very useful. I'm just about to start the order process with FluidOne as my exchange (WSLOD) has FTTPoD available and the cabinet I'm connected to is about to get it's FTTC upgrade finished, so I should be good to get started soon.

I'll be interested to see what the install process looks like for our house as there are pretty much no ducts involved it's all overhead poles...

I'm hopeful Openreach might be geared up to do some Fibre installs in my area as for some properties (that aren't connected to the cabinets 'cause they're next to the exchange) they're offering the "ordinary" FTTP product and some of the residents have had visits from Openreach to see who wants connected.

with your managed firewall, did FluidOne say what the process was to get firewall rule changes done? thinking if you wanted to open a port for a website or VNC/RDP/VPN access...

Edited by deleted (Thu 22-Jun-17 17:40:46)

Yes pls do describe your FTTPoD installation journey, will be interesting to compare our stories You won't have to chase Fluidone for updates wrt build progress , their Service Delivery team are excellent and will automatically update you - weekly at least.

They can remotely configure the Juniper if necessary, so you shouldn't need to touch any settings on it (it's locked down anyway). I think the Juniper's main function is to provide the routing to their servers, i can still define firewall rules on my own router and I can even get Openvpn working on my router in DD-WRT firmware.

With their FTTPoD service do Fluidone give you a block of IP addresses?

In reply to a post by Bill100:

With their FTTPoD service do Fluidone give you a block of IP addresses?

The service comes with one static IPv4 and one static IPv6 address as standard (I'm using the former) but you can request a block of addresses free of charge.

Edited by deleted (Thu 22-Jun-17 18:41:20)