In reply to a post by Thinker27:

he cleaned the face of the fibre on a special fabric that the sleeve of his jacket was made of.

Ha ha. And I bet he washed it with a bit of the special cleaning solvent that he keeps in his mouth

A mouthful of vodka (Ukrainian of course) will make it all better. 😎

In reply to a post by ryan125_hst:

We also still need to contact them to organise a Static IP.

Overall though, so far so good and the speed bottlenecks are keeping me busy in the hunt to try and get the best out of the connection!

If you have time are you able to provide an update?

How has the service been since going live?

Did you get your static IP address sorted for free?

Thanks

The service has been great so far. It would be difficult to run an Ethernet cable to my PC in my room (a powerful, very heavy desktop!) so it's difficult to get the maximum speeds, however the fastest I've seen is 859 Mbps down and 823 Mbps up on my phone standing right in front of the router. Can't argue with that! It's slower in my room but I actually did a speed test on my phone earlier and I got 501 Mbps down and 320 Mbps up which was very good for the WiFi upstairs and through a few walls. My personal Backblaze backup was completed in just over a week and it would have taken until into March on the old connection! I've had no dropouts or anything while working, Teams calls have been fine and I even managed to download a 150 GB Virtual Machine in a few hours last week.

My Dad contacted them via email to request a static IP address. He had to supply a reason and once given they sorted it quickly. The only thing I do need to ask is how do I check this as the IPv4 address on the router starts with 100.64 which seems to be a CGNAT address, but I might be wrong here. Is there a way to prove whether the IP address is static or CGNAT? It's caused us no issues so far so I've not looked into it further but it would be good to check it.

100.64.0.0/10 is a CGNAT block. I did skim through, but didn't see why you want a static IP address. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT#Shar... refers

Thanks for the update.

I too have relatives with access via Full Fibre Ltd but it is such a gamble to recommend as there is no way of knowing what the service is going to be like in a specific area. It is a pity the Trust Pilot reviews do not give their location so you know if a specific location is having problems.

In reply to a post by ryan125_hst:

The only thing I do need to ask is how do I check this as the IPv4 address on the router starts with 100.64 which seems to be a CGNAT address, but I might be wrong here. Is there a way to prove whether the IP address is static or CGNAT? It's caused us no issues so far so I've not looked into it further but it would be good to check it.

If the IP address is still in that range it is CGNAT.

Does anyone know if you need to restart the router or even the ONT for IP address changes to be picked up?