In reply to a post by roundrobin:

It's been great except for a couple of days in February when there was a routing issue by SSE. Other than that rock solid at all times. I didn't have to pay any ECCs and I paid the same amount as if I was in a 3 year contract. A win win

You did well indeed. Presume you must be in a metro area / where SSE had some existing presence that they didn’t charge ECCs

Yeah I am lucky. I'm in East London

Yes of course, my brain wasn’t in gear. It would have to be London as CF are really only building in London.

Plenty of fibre assets in the ground in London, from various providers, a strong reason perhaps you were able to get a 1 year contract with no ECCs.

It's funny that they had to do a roundabout way to get me the fibre because they didn't get permission to unblock the ducts. Then this year CF managed to get permission and have all the ducts unblocked. If OR do decide to put Fibre along the street, that work is now done

In reply to a post by roundrobin:

If OR do decide to put Fibre along the street, that work is now done

I wouldn't bet on it! There have been many locations in my area where both a CF and Openreach crew have dug up the same blockage location a few weeks apart. Often more than once each.

OR have been supposed to be doing work on the cabinet on the road for over 2 weeks now. It pops up One.Network for a couple of days, vanishes afterwards, then pops up with new days. Not yet seen them on the road lol

This took quite a lot longer than expected .

It finally went live today. There were a lot of duct issues in the area. All the telephone poles now have the CF gear on them. I think I'm the first person who went live. Community Fibre's support was pretty much awol during all of this.

Yesterday the original installation team (2 really great guys) came around and attached a light source to the cable in my place. They then spent the day finding places where they needed to join it. They came back today and continued the work. I just got back after lunch and they said there's a lot more work to do and so it won't be completed.

About 10 mins later they knocked on my door and said they may have found a way to do it. Some tests in the area suggested things should be fine and they thought there was a power issue on the pole. They got someone to check it and, sure enough, it was fine.

Someone from CF came around too and they processed my account details etc in the backend. They gave me an Adtran 621i which went live about an hour later. Plugged it in and have the full 1Gig up and down.

Overall summary:
1) Really great installers. Every time they came around they kept me updated on things
2) Construction workers on the road very neat with the job they did. Lots of ducts needed to be cleared around the area but the work done was very tidy. None of the shoddy work that the likes of Kelly Comms do
3) CommunityFibre support was quite poor though. They didn't seem to have a clue what was going on. The person who did come around today was great though which leaves a much better impression of the business.

Overall, very happy so far. Speeds are identical to my Vaioni line which is the main thing.

In reply to a post by roundrobin:

Overall, very happy so far. Speeds are identical to my Vaioni line which is the main thing.

How’s your single thread performance compared to x6 on CF?

That’s the one doubt in my mind from @ft247 summary review. Are they oversubscribing-ish on some of their backhaul. Gig leased line definitely spoils you, but at an obvious cost.

Here's what I have. I literally just dropped the Vaioni router to a dropoff point so I can't show a comparison with that unfortunately.

roundrobin's single thread results are better than mine were, but he is on a business contract I believe?

I won't be able to test again on TBB until Sunday - but a Samknows box is running.

Upload multithread is a flat line over 7 days, 940Mbit with very occasional 935Mbit results.
Upload single thread is fairly random between 650 and 941. Very little correlation to time of day.

Download multithread is not quite as flat, but generally in the 890-940 range with two results out of a week in the 750 range.
Download single thread results are more consistent than upload single thread, in the range 650-700Mbit but never higher.

It is perfectly acceptable for my use, but I'd like to know what is causing the graph to deviate from its flat 940Mbit line. It won't be local oversubscription as I was one of the first in the door and it's XGS-PON. Perhaps there is limited cabinet backhaul to THN as they're not offering the 3Gbit product in my area.

What also doesn't make sense is download single thread never breaking 700Mbit, even in the small hours of the morning at any point during the 3 weeks I've had the service.

The other thing I want to test is simultaneous upload and download, but I need a better router before I can tax it in a VPN configuration.