Hi there,

You'll need to add the following to your 'option modifiers' in your config:
supersede dhcp-server-identifier 255.255.255.255

This should stop the connection from dropping out during DHCP renewal.

As for the static IP, can you contact [email protected] so we can get this raised with our NOC to look at for you.

Best,

Chris.

Thanks for the assistance Chris about my connection issue.

It had turned out that the problem with the IP address renewing was down to my pfSense router itself, the version 2.4.4 just seemed to have issues with the connection, so I finally upgraded to the latest version and after setting up the WAN again it has been on the same static IP for well over 5+ days and no more random connection drops either. Sorted!

I couldn't be happier with the speeds, amazingly fast 400Mbps+ for the whole family, much better than BT's 65Mbps.

Some good news and some that could be improved.

The good is that the price of the 900mbit service is now only £50 pm so not much difference over the 400mbit over 18 months.

Not so good and I have let Swish know, I assume everyone receives an email that just states 'reset your password' with no explanation or who it is from.

It is from Plume and looks like your typical phishing email

Swish installed today and the guys did a great job.

Plugged my router into the WAN port on the ONT and it works without issue negotiating at 2.5gbit on the LAN side.
Added a little more CPU resource to the VM and it is happy providing access at 1gbit.
No bufferbloat either.

Router supplied is a Linksys Velop which looks OK and I might look to use as an AP as I'll stick with OPNSense for the time being.

https://www.linksys.com/gb/tri-band-ax4200-mesh-wifi...

Congrats on the install.

In reply to a post by smouty:

Router supplied is a Linksys Velop

I thought Swish always supplied a Plume pod as the router - has that changed or did you explicitly request the Linksys somehow?

They supply a different router with the 900 service now I’m told.

Just received a rather disappointing email from Swish (I pre-ordered in July of last year IIRC):

Since you signed up last year, we’ve been working diligently to bring our full fibre network to Godalming.

Building an entirely new broadband network takes an immense amount of planning and labour. We often run into bumps along the way. 

From permits and permissions to power lines and pipes, navigating underground infrastructure can be a huge challenge. 

It’s rare, but sometimes we are unable to overcome these challenges. And unfortunately, your street falls into an area where cannot safely continue our construction.

Because of this we need to cancel your order.


Rather frustrating as they've done of work in our road and in roads leading to it so assumed that going live would be imminent.

Oh well, at least Openreach FTTP is available.

Funny that. I received exactly the same email from Swish this morning.

No explanation of what the particular problem was/is. I know someone 100yards down the road has Swish, and they laid the cable and put the junction box outside my house a year ago.

Oh well there's Airband here, not quite as good (assymetric up/down speeds) but worth a try.

What area are you in, if you don't mind me asking?

We've had lots of Swish work over the past year, with quite large areas of the pavement and street dug up, etc. Would be curious to know what's actually caused the cancellation, but I'm guessing we won't be privy to that. Sadly no other altnets are active in our area so Openreach it'll have to remain for now

I'm in OX39. Lower Road, Chinnor.

They spent a few days a year ago digging the road up and putting the ducting in. Then a few days later running the fibre into the ducting, I watched them do it.

Plenty of people in the village have it, and have had it for some time, so it's a bit puzzling as to why there is a problem after they spent time and money doing the street back then.