nice, I wonder if I'll get one, my FluidOne service is *hopefully* about to go live as Openreach turned up this week, unexpectedly, and completed the jointing and installed the internal kit.

I'm just waiting now for the Openreach handover document to Fluidone so they can activate the serivce, apparently that can take "a couple of days"...

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nice, I wonder if I'll get one, my FluidOne service is *hopefully* about to go live as Openreach turned up this week, unexpectedly, and completed the jointing and installed the internal kit.

I'm just waiting now for the Openreach handover document to Fluidone so they can activate the serivce, apparently that can take "a couple of days"...

In my case it took around 10 days for Openreach to hand the line over to Fluidone, service went live on the date Openreach activated the ONT ( had an Engineer visit). So hopefully not long to go now for you. I take it they�ve now installed the necessary fttp hardware at the terminating exchange?

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Had to decode the binary: 'DATA DELIVERY NETWORK'

I thought it was just a series of random zeros and ones lol

As soon as I saw it, I thought it looked like ASCII, the hard bit was writing it down from the side on image!

Yep the FTTP hardware problem seemed to have solved itself early. Unexpected, but not unwelcome!

I got the e-mail today from Fluidone saying that the line was active. Just done some tests and whilst upstream is about where I'd expect it to be at 25Mbps, downstream is only 28Mbps, so something pretty wrong there, hopefully just some tweaks to configuration needed to make that work.

Possibly interestingly, I was chatting with the Openreach engineers doing the installation and when they checked, my line length is about 21km, which seems like quite a long way!

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Yep the FTTP hardware problem seemed to have solved itself early. Unexpected, but not unwelcome!

I got the e-mail today from Fluidone saying that the line was active. Just done some tests and whilst upstream is about where I'd expect it to be at 25Mbps, downstream is only 28Mbps, so something pretty wrong there, hopefully just some tweaks to configuration needed to make that work.

Possibly interestingly, I was chatting with the Openreach engineers doing the installation and when they checked, my line length is about 21km, which seems like quite a long way!

That's great news! Welcome to the FTTPoD club

FWIW my line was also not getting speeds anywhere near 300 Mbps at the beginning, however a few hours later Fluidone support fixed this and its been at ~310/30 Mbps ever since - though there was a few days outage in Nov as some numpty at the exchange decided to mess up my line profile which was solved by a re-config at the exchange.

Well looks like it just needed a bit of time to settle down. This morning we're getting 260Mpbs-280Mbps which is pretty good and I have a feeling the bottle neck is more the Unifi security gateway we're using as a direct connected laptop was getting 300Mbps

Upstream is 28Mbps which is pretty close to the target as well.

I'm now very happy to be a member of the FTTPoD club, it's taken a while but worth it if we can keep this sort of speed up.

I would agree with the Unifi Security GW being the bottleneck. I love the Unifi devices and I love the deep packet inspection, but the small box isn't powerful enough and does get REALLY hot.

I am going to stick with my PFSense based router.

I have a question, how are you using Unifi USG, I thought it was a requirement to use the Juniper Router that Fluidone provide?

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I thought it was a requirement to use the Juniper Router that Fluidone provide?

You can plug any third party router into the Juniper and use it as an access point, eg for wifi coverage as there is no wifi built into the Juniper. Though its relatively simple to bypass the Juniper altogether and use your own kit

as baby_frogmella says you can plug your own kit into the Juniper box.

To provide a bit more on my experience, they provided me with a /31 subnet, so essentially two addresses. One of which was assigned to the gateway and the other of which was avaialble for assignment to my USG.

As an aside Windows really does not like /31 subnets, I was doing some initial tests using a Win 10 laptop, and it wouldn't take /31 as a mask you had to just lie and enter /30. The USG also wasn't too happy with that but after a couple of attempts it took the change ok.

I'll maybe look into pfsense boxes. what I really want is something which will run ntop-ng which is great for monitoring traffic, and on top of that just some basic packet filtering and port forwarding.

It's less relevant now I've got decent speeds, but when I was on 10Mbps total ntop-ng was very handy for identifying what was chewing my bandwidth

Possibly interestingly, I was chatting with the Openreach engineers doing the installation and when they checked, my line length is about 21km, which seems like quite a long way!

Crikey, 21 km?! Dare I ask how much you were charged in install costs?

I am 4.6km away from a fibre enabled cabinet myself, and I thought my line length was bad... Running a business from home, a 4mbit line (upload sub 200k) just won't cut it, so I might look into FTTPoD myself in February, once the pricing changes.

Since I live in Aberdeenshire, I am apparently eligible to participate in the gigabit voucher scheme. Does anyone know if it can be combined with a custom FTTPoD install?