Zzoomm

Zzoomm are currently burying their pink fibres all over my area and since I've been waiting for an better option than the soggy local O/R cables - I'm intrigued.

Anyone know more about the kit they provide? They are offering two wireless hubs per domestic property which would seem to be either Zyxel AX7501 which can work up to 10Gb or SmartRG (Adtran) SR400ac which seems to have a maximum speed of 1Gb.

There's also a separate fibre termination box at an exterior wall that also needs 240v. I assume that's for a fibre to ethernet converter but there's no info as to what they actually are and what size it is..

Anyone in the Henley or Hereford area know any more details?

The ZZooomm instation details are here.

It says "Step 5: A little grey ‘Wallbox’ will go on the outside wall of your property and a black ‘Fibre connection box’ will go on the inside of your property. You may want these boxes to be discreet so think where you’d like them to go"

So need for power to anything on the exterior of a wall. (if that was what you were asking about)

What ZZoomm call a Fibre Connection box performs the same function as what Openreach would call an ONT.

If you want to change the router connected to it this can be tricky if the network works the same way as Gigaclear.

They are building around here as well, unless here is where you are as well)

They have a Toby box in the road outside all properties, even if you don't want zzoomm. When you order, they will dig a trench in your garden and then stick a box on the outside wall and you router will connect to that box. They give two routers, one for upstairs and one for downstairs, that could be useful, will router the cable on the outside wall. That would save me having an Ethernet cable running down the stairs.

There are some people who have been connected and they give pretty good reviews of them, but others that have not been connected and can be, are getting a bit impatient. Looks like Zzoomm is having the same problem of getting work people than other companies.


To be honest, it looks good and if you want a peak at the instructions for the SR400ac, then look here from the zzoomm site i presume you could buy your own router if you want to. If you have a 2.5Gb/s network or faster then, you could have a small problem, but saying that , your internal network would only touch the router for going to the internet.


Manual for the Zyxel here if you want to look

I have a Zyxel router, a VMG8924-B30A that plusnet supplied when I was having issues, it is a good router, but Plusnet have changed the firmware on it so some things I want to use like the Voip will not work. but Zzoomm won't do that.

The price of Zzoom looks good, depending on what you want, for £29 a month for 150Mb/s both ways, which is pretty good, I can't see many people needing more than that. £99 a month for 2Gb/s. I think you only get the zyxel on the two fastest packages.

Have a look at their website, https://zzoomm.com


There are zzoomm Facebook groups for different areas, that is if you use facebook.

We will see what happens, suppose to be up by me in Spring next year,.

A lot of maintenance going on with Zzoomm, in our area we’ve got rerouting this Thursday and then another email came through today to say next week both Wednesday & Thursday they are doing firmware updates.

One thing I’ll give them they are very good at contacting you with regards to maintenance and outages.