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Jaymoss 30-04-2026 22:35

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36214681)
Interesting, great pic. Did you chat to the technician?

Yeah it was quite an amusing convo

SnoopZ 13-05-2026 22:42

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36211590)
So I've had Zen FTTP Full Fibre 900 for a month now and it's been great and rock solid. I usually get pretty much my expected speed on Ethernet and after changing my DNS to use Cloudflare if I was to game online I can expect a latency of 8 at best and 21 at worse with both being very stable.

Even though I have zero packet loss on all the tests I've done my Thinkbroadband quality monitor looks a little iffy though showing a little packet loss but my connection doesn't appear to represent what the graph shows so I'm not worrying about that. On my VM connection if the graph showed packet loss I would experience it my end.

I see my package is £5 cheaper per month so that's a little annoying.

So my FRITZ!Box 7530 AX router received an update and since then there is zero packet loss showing on the graph which is nice, although I never actually experienced any in my testing.

daveeb 14-05-2026 10:50

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36215429)
So my FRITZ!Box 7530 AX router received an update and since then there is zero packet loss showing on the graph which is nice, although I never actually experienced any in my testing.

I got one as well. Don't know if you're registered with MyFritz!.net but they send monthly bulletins about useage/system etc and also tell you when an update is on it's way.

SnoopZ 14-05-2026 11:03

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Originally Posted by daveeb (Post 36215466)
I got one as well. Don't know if you're registered with MyFritz!.net but they send monthly bulletins about useage/system etc and also tell you when an update is on it's way.

Don't think I am registered.

Do you have a thinkbroadband graph setup so you can see the difference the update made to the graph?

daveeb 14-05-2026 11:14

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36215467)
Don't think I am registered.

Do you have a thinkbroadband graph setup so you can see the difference the update made to the graph?

I do but haven't looked yet, don't look so often now as I don't have the "busy" VM connection to ponder over.
Just had a look, doesn't look a lot different really. Pretty clean chart on the whole before and after.

SnoopZ 14-05-2026 15:39

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 
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Originally Posted by daveeb (Post 36215470)
I do but haven't looked yet, don't look so often now as I don't have the "busy" VM connection to ponder over.
Just had a look, doesn't look a lot different really. Pretty clean chart on the whole before and after.

I had loads of red on mine but the update cured that, I'll post images tomorrow morning as I'm at work until 10. Did you have the same model of Fritz as me?

daveeb 14-05-2026 17:04

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I do get some dropped packets showing (red) but never notice any issues in real time useage and haven't seen any in the few days since the update.
Yes I have the 7530AX also a Fritz 3000AX repeater that I bought direct from Germany rather than rent one off Zen.

---------- Post added at 18:04 ---------- Previous post was at 17:59 ----------

Edit..Having looked a bit more thoroughly I do have dropped packets after the update, similar to before really. Nothing that shows in real world useage though.

SnoopZ 14-05-2026 18:50

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 
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Originally Posted by daveeb (Post 36215502)
I do get some dropped packets showing (red) but never notice any issues in real time useage and haven't seen any in the few days since the update.
Yes I have the 7530AX also a Fritz 3000AX repeater that I bought direct from Germany rather than rent one off Zen.

---------- Post added at 18:04 ---------- Previous post was at 17:59 ----------

Edit..Having looked a bit more thoroughly I do have dropped packets after the update, similar to before really. Nothing that shows in real world useage though.

Not a single dropped packet so far, as like you no real world packet loss when I did get them though.

SnoopZ 14-05-2026 22:28

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After the update.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1778800273

Before the update.
https://www.cableforum.uk/board/atta...1&d=1778800337

Paul 14-05-2026 22:45

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I dont think you saved the attachments.

SnoopZ 14-05-2026 23:13

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36215550)
I dont think you saved the attachments.

I could see the images before but I've redone it so hopefully all visible now.

I think I've got a very memorable IP address.

Paul 15-05-2026 01:04

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Well I suppose you could consider the last two parts of it easy to remember. ;)

SnoopZ 15-05-2026 07:43

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36215556)
Well I suppose you could consider the last two parts of it easy to remember. ;)

I only need to remember the first 2 digits because there is my birth year in there too.

In all seriousness it's just a number I can't think of an everyday use that I would need to remember it.

SnoopZ 13-07-2026 22:02

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CityFibre are now laying the cables in my street so in 14 months time I have a faster cheaper option than Openreach available to me, although I can't see the point of more than 1GB download with my devices limited to that but the higher upload may come in handy.

Paul 14-07-2026 01:21

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36219562)
CityFibre are now laying the cables in my street so in 14 months time I have a faster cheaper option than Openreach available to me, although I can't see the point of more than 1GB download with my devices limited to that but the higher upload may come in handy.

Thats why I got the 900/900 from YouFibre, my home network cant do more than that down (it doesnt quite hit 900 down) but the fast upload is great.


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