openreach

Go Gig or Go Home

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Install day was today and I’ve finally gone to FTTP. Installation was an absolute breeze, I’d put in a draw cord to get the fibre into the house and the Openreach engineer even took down the copper as well so nice and tidy. I have a neat little ONT in my house next to the living room patch ports and we are running a CHR with Gb internet.

Before install from a wired in connection during a working day.
Following install but before ONT upgrade
After ONT upgrade and a PPP drop and reconnect, this was Steam downloading a game on my CHR.

As you can see, the move wasn’t flawless, following the upgrade, my download speed held at the 55Mb I was profiled at previously but following an ONT firmware upgrade and then a PPP disconnect and reconnect from the CHR, we released the full power. My laptop couldn’t even manage to get the throughput due to the USB dock for a speedtest so a Steam download on the main gaming/editing PC was in order to show it off.

Broadband Upgrade

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I’ve been a little bit AFK over the last month or so, real life duties have had to take priority and then more recently broadband issues! I’ve now had to take the step and put in a copper based line however me being me wanted to use MikroTik kit. to do this I needed to use a stand alone modem so opted for an ex-BT Huawei HG612 3B and then used a PoE splitter to power it so I didn’t have any nasty power supplied stringing around my front room.

A 50cm Tandy high quality twisted pair DSL cable took the duty of getting the service form my master socket to my modem.

Although not the full 80/20 I am now getting a good packet loss free 55/16