Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 

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.

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 

I did Thinkbroadband for years with both my VM and Zen connections. The Zen graph was usually very clean with not much happening whereas the VM chart was far "noisier" latency wise. Also it would regularly go red with 100% packet loss even though the connection was still working. I suspect the pings were being blocked but could only resolve it by either enabling/disabling flood protection or rebooting the router.
Has the price of the 900 meg service gone down? it was £50 last time I looked (openreach service).

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 

Youfibre put a leaflet through my door today, saying they are now available.

I rang up to question this with them and the confirmed it went live a few days ago.
Apparently they feed the BT poles, so I'll get another overhead line (same as my current FTTP).

Order placed for the end of the month (900 up/down).

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 

The price is £45 on their website now and it appears to not be on sale.

My thinkbroadband graph is very clean apart from some red but it's not affecting my connection quality at all so it doesn't worry me.

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Nice, it's a shame they can't use the same cable and ONT. I'm reluctant to move to Cityfibre when it becomes available because of lack of space for another ONT.

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 

I have space for two, I'll probably run dual FTTP for a a few months, like I did with VM when I first got FTTP.

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 

I wish for us older tech guys they just called the ONT a modem which technically it is just a fibre modem instead of a DSL modem or a Coaxial Modem. Remember years ago when you got sent a USB Modem by Openreach suppliers? and had to set up an AD Hoc network because you could not connect it to router? (I also know technically it does not need to modulate and demodulate because it is digital to digital but it still converts light to electrical and back again )

Re: FTTP who to buy it from - Recommendations please
 

YouFibre Installed today.

Looking good ;

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