FACTCO/CityFibre High quality

[roughbeast]

I have made my move from Vodafone/City Fibre to FACTCO/CityFibre.

I moved because Vodafone's line quality was unreliable and latency was 40ms at times, even via ethernet. VF's practice of shifting user's Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) as part of their load balancing strategy produced variable latency rather than their claim to provide low latency for gamers. Shoot'em up gaming was affected in our house.

FACTO uses City Fibre's local and national networks. For £29.99 a month, + £5.00 for static IPv4 and IPv6 static IPs, I get a 1Gb symmetrical connection.

Pings to Cloudflare and the BBC give me an average latency of 6ms.

[SnoopZ]

I wish I had other good options, where I live it VM or 50mbit from other suppliers.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

I wish I had other good options, where I live it VM or 50mbit from other suppliers.

XGS-PON is your best hope then, but you won't get a symmetrical connection. I know most people don't need over 100Mb/200Mb, but it's like with anything. If people have it, the technology and the demand soon follow.

[roughbeast]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

I wish I had other good options, where I live it VM or 50mbit from other suppliers.

For an extra £4.99 FACTO have supplied me a static IP and IPv6. Apparently IPv6 is provided by City Fibre to any ISP that uses its national and local network combined.