Where were you connecting iperf to?
My fluidone connection seems fine right now, but have only been testing with speedtouch-cli mostly (which under reports). My only direct connect from my mac got >300Mbits as expected, but this was during a working day.
If I could set up iperf against something on a crontab I'd be confident it was ok - and I want to play with my firewall config anyway and make sure I don't introduce anything bad for my environment!

Nice one, hope your improved speeds remain stable. 7+ months later my speeds are still a rock solid 310/29 Mbps day & night, if (and its a big if) my speeds stay like this for the full 3 year term then I will look into the possibility at staying with FluidOne beyond my min term, on a new/cheaper FTTP contract. Hopefully by that time they will be selling OR/BTW based 1 Gig FTTP

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Glad to hear you got the service installed in the end, did the install go smoothly?

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

Glad to hear you got the service installed in the end, did the install go smoothly?

Openreach engineer arrived on time but needed to wait for a colleague with a cherry picker to arrive to run the fibre. It was the new connectorised installation - Openreach had installed 8 strands to the top of a nearby pole (lucky neighbours!!).

The engineer ran the fibre into my house and installed a new style ont (one box containing the ont and battery).

I take the Ethernet from the ont and run it across my own fibre using a media converter where it connects to the jupiter and then my unifi usg3 then back to my house and other outbuildings over my fibre.

All works very nicely and see 200mbit real world from my 5ghz wifi and the full 300+ from desktop machines.

So very pleased!

So I've got a VM running on a hosted box which I run the iperf3 server on. I just shoved it up on a high port, to minimize the number of people using my server for free speed tests

The script I knocked up to extract the data from iperf is https://github.com/raesene/iperf3-ruby . that generates a new CSV file for each data and puts one line into the CSV file per run, so you can use cron to do it periodically and keep an eye on speeds that way.

Well I guess my luck had to run out sooner or later

Over the last week or so, I'm getting slow downs in the evenings from 7pm to midnight, around 150 Mbps instead of the usual 300 Mbps during the daytime. Fluidone have raised this with their carrier (BT Wholesale) to see what's going on. It can't be congestion at FluidOne's end as their live 'weather maps' never go above 25% load at any time of the day so its most likely a congestion issue somewhere on the BTW network or at the exchange.

@jabes
@raesene

How's your Fluidone service holding up so far?

In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

How's your Fluidone service holding up so far?

I've never felt my Fluidone service is "top speed". But then it hasn't been poor enough for me to care, it's still extremely fast.

I take the ethernet from the ONT and use a TP-Link gigabit media converter to throw it over fibre into my garage, where it comes back onto ethernet and into the Juniper router. From there it goes into my Unifi USG3 and on to my network.

I suspect the USG3 is a little underpowered for the full 330Mb (although some people run faster links on them, depending on settings) and I've never felt sensitive enough to try and track down the last 30mb or so. When I test the speed I've seen >250mb usually which has been fast enough for me.

If you want me to do some "real" testing at certain times of day to compare something, let me know and I'll try and set something up.

... and what do you get with the Juniper connected straight into the ONT ?

Urrrrgggghhh....getting just 116 Mbps this evening:

http://www.speedtest.net/result/7685505605

Fluidone have forced me to plug the Juniper SRX300 back into the Openreach ONT as without the Juniper they cannot help me - apparently being on a '"managed install'' i have to leave the Juniper plugged in at all times. The Juniper gets re-packed and goes back in the loft collecting dust once this is resolved though

In reply to a post by Zarjaz:

... and what do you get with the Juniper connected straight into the ONT ?

Never tested it. If I had to guess my weak link would be my USG3 configuration.
I did test the Media Converters when I got them and they can do line speed 1gig...