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In reply to a post by jon999:

That's correct they supplied an Adtran SDX 602x, which is different to what is provided with the 1Gb service, and the router is Zyxel AX7501-B0.

The Adtran connects to the Zyxel via 2 SFP+ 10G T modules, however you can connect directly to the Adtran.

The service is very good. I've only had a couple of issues - once with a faulty Zyxel router, and the other day there was an outage for a 2-3 hours but that's only happened once in 8 months.

I suppose that though you still have to use a 602X box for actual ONT duties, having a pluggable SFP+ LAN interface in that box, you could easily swap out the 10GBaseT for a multi/single/BiDi fibre pluggable (for distance etc.) or a 10G DAC arrangement. So actually quite a degree of flexibility there.

Update on my end.

Community Fibre came around today to perform the upgrade. They had both an Adtran and Zyxel. To my surprise, and initial horror, the Adtran was the 621X SFU. The issue there is that it uses 10GBase-T whereas my switch uses SFP+. Luckily, they had an SPF+ to 10GBase-T converter and it even worked in my Juniper switch which can be a bit special about non-Juniper coding.

It didn't work initially with my network but that was due to the network config on my side. We confirmed by connecting directly to a laptop that it was fine. Interestingly, they had a USB-C to 10GBase-T dongle for this. Worked fine on my Macbook with no drivers. Even though I didn't need the Zyxel, I asked could I keep it just in case.

When they left, and I finished work (tethering via my phone), I got down to getting it to work. I guess a bit off topic but here's what I needed to do:
1) As it is no longer a fixed IP, I had to enable DHCP in pfSense. Interesting, IPv6 now works no issue. You seem to have 1 or the other with CF.
2) I forgot to update the gateway settings which stopped everything from working.
3) When it was all working, I was still stuck on 1Gbps speed tests. It turned out my connection from Esxi to my switch was an 1Gbps connection. I changed some settings around to fix this.
4) I was getting speed tests of approx 1.6Gbps. The CPU in the pfSense VM was maxed out. I added some more CPUs in Esxi but it only hit 2Gbps.
5) I spent about 1.5 hours looking at what CPU upgrades I'd need, as well as other hardware. On a walk I realised I had Suricata on pfSense enabled. Getting home and disabling it has it now at 2.5Gbps which has me feeling much better.

It was an interesting journey. I will say their Customer Service can really make Virgin seem amazing though. Luckily, I never really have to call or email them but I dread it when I do. I just looked at the lovely BT line coming into my house and wonder will the street ever get Fibre from BT. Haha

Cool 👍

Great that you can get 2.5 Gbps through pfS on virtualised HW. Nice one.

Yeah me too. May play around with TNSR but it's been a while since I used that.

I've got the ISO for TNSR here but have-not bothered to load it up to have play

When I used it last (at launch ) it maxed out the CPU on Esxi even when doing nothing. I kept wondering why the fans kept revving up.

Why are you only getting 2.5Gbps? You should be getting around 3.5

Yeah I need to optimise things a bit more on it. When I have time I'll connect it directly to my laptop to check.

Well I'm getting 3.3GB/s with them using my own router Asus AX89X there customer service team are ok but there network team can be a bit rude.