In reply to a post by dowbulldog:

Hi speedy,

I also live in Shrewsbury (Harlescott) I signed up on Thursday and the engineer is coming Monday (i Hope).

How are you getting on with Squirrel, I hadnt heard of them before so im a little apprehensive.

Many Thanks

Steve

Hi, to be honest the speed throughput isn't very consistent and there's a lot of retransmissions but it looks like it might be a local issue. Will be interesting to hear how your service turns out.

Hey @miken06 Did you have to do anything exotic (VLAN Tagging?) to get OPNSense working with Squirrel, I'm struggling to get any sort of DHCP response, but have solid connection on the ONT :/ ?

It may vary by network but on MS3 no VLANs were needed just DHCP.

Is it a new install? Perhaps Squirrel haven't set it up yet.
I'd recommend live chatting them in the morning, they have been very helpful the few times I've contacted them.

The connection has remained pretty problem free, averaged 5TB/month down for the last year.
The previously experienced brief drop outs seem to have stopped but I think that was an MS3 issue anyway.

We've just moved to Squirrel for fibre 900Mbits. They gave us a free installation of fibre, too, so it's the first time we're experiencing it (previously we had Virgin/Three).

Not been a great experience, to be honest.

Speeds via ethernet to the (cheap) router are around 860Mbits download, and 920Mbits upload. OK, not to be sniffed at but I believe that indicates quite serious contention. No matter which speed test I use, upload is always faster than download. Their support chat says this is fine and just the way it is because the network is busy sometimes, y'know?

IPv6 worked initially, but has now died. Don't know why. No device on the network has an IPv6 address now.

Carrier grade NAT for IPv4, too, so it'll mess-up any VPN connection. £2 extra gets you a static IP.

And then there's the price. They're cheap as chips, which is probably why there's so much contention. I got a deal and just as they were about to do the fibre install, they dropped the price again. I asked if I could have the better price. They basically told me to f*** off. You might think this is OK but, well, it's not great customer service.

I'd advise people to take care with this company. It might be a classic example of an aggressive startup outpacing what it can actually offer.

In reply to a post by lulubonkers:

We've just moved to Squirrel for fibre 900Mbits. They gave us a free installation of fibre, too, so it's the first time we're experiencing it (previously we had Virgin/Three).

Not been a great experience, to be honest.

Speeds via ethernet to the (cheap) router are around 860Mbits download, and 920Mbits upload. OK, not to be sniffed at but I believe that indicates quite serious contention. No matter which speed test I use, upload is always faster than download. Their support chat says this is fine and just the way it is because the network is busy sometimes, y'know?

IPv6 worked initially, but has now died. Don't know why. No device on the network has an IPv6 address now.

Carrier grade NAT for IPv4, too, so it'll mess-up any VPN connection. £2 extra gets you a static IP.

And then there's the price. They're cheap as chips, which is probably why there's so much contention. I got a deal and just as they were about to do the fibre install, they dropped the price again. I asked if I could have the better price. They basically told me to f*** off. You might think this is OK but, well, it's not great customer service.

I'd advise people to take care with this company. It might be a classic example of an aggressive startup outpacing what it can actually offer.

Depending where you live, you could be on Gigaclear backend services, and Gigaclear is running extremely hot at the minute is certain parts of the country.

We're in South Manchester, on the Warrington border.