In reply to a post by baby_frogmella:

I hope your neighbours appreciate how lucky they are

I did pop a note through each door this morning to let them know they can now order Ultrafast. I don't expect much take up though as everyone here gets full 80/20 FTTC.

Thanks everyone.

Looks like FTTPoD is the route i will go.

Just waiting for the neighbours to make up their minds so that i can order the survey.

My FTTPoD installation date is Friday - quick question for anyone who has already gone live with Cerberus - when do you receive your login credentials (is it PPPoE?) Will I be able to connect my pfSense router straight away once the ONT has been installed or is further work required before the connection is live?

Mine went live last Thursday and I was using PfSense with FTTC prior to install.

You will receive an email from Cerberus containing your connection details, if you already have ppoe configured for fttc then you literally just need to change the username and password.

Luckily it was as simple as that, I wasn't 100% sure till I tried.

So finally had my FTTPoD installed this morning - changed the connection details on my pfSense box and ran a few speed tests - getting in excess of 300Mbps on the download now.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/15538575517...

Does anyone have the IPv6 configuration details as I want to set that up as well on the pfSense router?

My ping has also reduced by 2.3ms to under 4ms:

--- newswww.bbc.net.uk ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 3.302/3.365/3.473/0.077 ms

Edited by brookheather (Fri 29-Mar-19 11:14:17)

Nice speed test and latency there.

I'm unfortunately still waiting for Openreach to sort out subsequent mess ups with the order. Now there's apparently an issue with mapping and test results, it honestly feels like a never ending list of problems where one potentially gets fixed another seems to happen.

On the bright side however, I saw news recently that potentially a local business (altnet provider) is intending to rollout 1 gigabit symmetrical FTTP over the next few years to most of the city I live in and cheaper than Openreach's FTTP. Interesting times ahead!

Edited by Ixel (Fri 29-Mar-19 11:23:12)

Nice! i bet you are happy.

This evening is the first time i've seen the speed tests show anything but 310Mbps, i guess this is some network congestion. Still, can't complain at 280Mbps at peak times. Latency is still at 4ms, like yours.

It's also the first Friday evening i've used the internet/run a speed test since the install last week.

Why do you want IPv6 setup? I've not attempted or considered getting it configured.

Also seem to get better speed results via speedtest.net for some reason:

Multi connection:
https://www.speedtest.net/result/8149789653.png

Single connection:
https://www.speedtest.net/result/8149791900.png

Ping

Ping statistics for 151.101.64.81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 4ms, Maximum = 4ms, Average = 4ms

Ixel, that must be really frustrating! You was almost complete when i was having my fibre ran and jointed

All be worth it in the end. What are you using for your router when it's finally complete?

In reply to a post by rman:

Why do you want IPv6 setup? I've not attempted or considered getting it configured.

I've not had a chance to play with IPv6 before as Plusnet don't currently support it so wanted to set it up just as a technical exercise I guess.