Gigafast

Our area will be getting Gigafast this year. Does anyone know if speeds are restricted i.e usenet or streaming ?

when I spoke to an advisor about my install he said it was completely unlimited with no restrictions so interpret that how you like.

although It seems that I have to wait a bit longer for install as my actual distribution point isn't enabled yet but it should be in the next 2 to 3 months.

Thanks for the reply, can you keep me informed as to what it is like once you get connected. Many thanks.

I had my Vodafone Gigafast installed on Weds 02/02 morning here in north Milton Keynes. It seems pretty good but with a few concerns.

The Vodafone router seems OK so far and appears to be stable and providing much improved wifi speeds. I have been able to manually change the DNS on it and the overall speeds that I'm getting are much better than before but I've yet to see anything like the 900 mbps that I'm supposed to be getting. Having said that, the main gigafast connection into the property and new router have been installed at the back of our TV which isn't a position that I'm easily able to connect a device directly into for testing. So all my tests are going through gigabit switches and gigabit powerline adapters and generally wifi, where the optimal speeds are unlikely to be achieved. I will have to connect a laptop to it when I get a chance.

However, my main PC which is upstairs and is connected directly to a gigabit powerline adapter is getting wildly fluctuating speed tests. Anything from a respectable few hundred up and down to less than 10 or 5 mbps. Oddly, whatever the result, I haven't noticed any real world slow downs in performance. Maybe it's just a case of early days and letting things settle down a bit. We'll see.

It did take me quite a bit longer than expected for me to reconfigure everything onto the new network and I consider myself to be pretty tech savvy, but it looks like I've got there. Not sure how someone less so would manage.

One thing that concerns me is that if the new router rather than the line does go down then there's a lot going down with it as the phone also runs through it. Just waiting for the old phone number to move over to the new system.

I'm new to Vodafone as an ISP and so far I've had no welcome email or updates, or progress reports on how the service is moving over, etc. The original sign-up letter that I received doesn't even have a clear contact number for them and when I do speak to them I'm not entirely convinced that they know what they're talking about. Hopefully my old number will get transfered OK.

Congrats!!. Any pictures of the installation i.e. ONT, splice point?

Edited by max360 (Fri 04-Jan-19 14:44:41)

There should be no "settling in" phase. It should be top speed from the start. To be fair, I'd ditch those powerline units if you can.

Are you able to setup a VPN on the vodafone router ?

No router VPN config option by the looks of it.

Yeah ditch the powerlines and go for mesh Wi-Fi if you can.

hi
I am from Milton Keynes and I have fibre line from 07.january. My connection 100Mbit/s download 100Mbit/s upload
Speed :
Speedtest.net Result

I have a problem with downloading files, should be 12.5MB/s and max I have 2MB/s. Downloading on port 80 works fine , any other ports have same limits? download 2MB/s upload full speed 12.5MB/s.
Customer service said- That is not their fault ( thats not true )

http://www.ovh.net/files/ I have max 2MB/s ( should be 12.5MB/s )

http://speedtest.tele2.net -- easy way to test FTP upload/download. Same result for me

Edited by ffgmat (Sun 13-Jan-19 00:08:46)

In reply to a post by ffgmat:

http://www.ovh.net/files/ I have max 2MB/s ( should be 12.5MB/s )

http://speedtest.tele2.net -- easy way to test FTP upload/download. Same result for me

The download speed I get from ovh is much slower than this website or speedtest.net would show by a factor of about 5. I doubt the problem has anything to do with Vodafone.

Difference is probably down to the Speedtest.net server being in Milton Keynes i.e. on the local network

We see a mixture of results from people, so yes wider network performance does appear more variable than you would expect

speed test - random servers EU

Amsterdam - 100Mbit up/dow


Paris - 100Mbit/s up/dow
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7953881239.png

Warsaw - 50Mbit/s100Mbit
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7953890372.png

Berlin - 50/100
http://www.speedtest.net/result/7953895694.png

FTP is still limited to 20Mbit/s I cant understand why?
I done many test and result same, I try some UK FTP servers and always 20Mbit/s (2,2MB/s)

I still have BT line (76Mbit/s download ) and no problem I have full speed on FTP

Edited by ffgmat (Sun 13-Jan-19 15:36:56)

If testing with Ookla servers abroad you are a long way from testing your Internet connection, but if you do trace routes to all the servers you may find a common route that pops up on the slow servers