Getting mine installed today, what's the benefit of not having seperate ONT? also what is ONT
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ONT is a modem but for fibre, Virgin has it built into the hub, Have you gone for 2gig? symmetrical speeds?Getting mine installed today, what's the benefit of not having seperate ONT? also what is ONT
Ah ok mate, no we can only get BT here as it's above ground, Virgin said it was out of their budget to install here.
Finally in though, after nearly 5 years of waiting for it to become available!
With the way things are going, I could see houses needing 2gb + in the next 5 years.
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To use your own router directly connected to 'TP', it needs to have port to accept insertion of a special 'fiber cable interface'.
Like these two ports (~2" deep holes) in this router. The cable optical end is inserted into that interface which in turn is inserted into one of these two ports.
In Canada, major companies supply their own modem/router box (ONT). You can unplug the fiber cable, remove its interface from the box and insert it into your own router (properly configured for that). That supplied box then goes into storage (since you have to return it eventually one day).
The best thing about fiber is symmetric up/down speeds, or at least it can be symmetric, some providers put a damper on it. Around here typically 1GB, higher speeds capable of 2GB (2.5GB, 10GB) require next step in modem technology. Companies around here are not supplying that and if they do, their hardware ONT may not support it and you need to invest into your own better router, not cheap, usually only for enthusiasts...
In case of 2 GB, your LAN switches if you have them and computer also needs network interface capable of those speeds, otherwise you can't take advantage of it, pple sometimes tend to forget when they go beyond the today's standard 1GB speed.
To use your own router directly connected to 'TP', it needs to have port to accept insertion of a special 'fiber cable interface'.
Like these two ports (~2" deep holes) in this router. The cable optical end is inserted into that interface which in turn is inserted into one of these two ports.
In Canada, major companies supply their own modem/router box (ONT). You can unplug the fiber cable, remove its interface from the box and insert it into your own router (properly configured for that). That supplied box then goes into storage (since you have to return it eventually one day).
The best thing about fiber is symmetric up/down speeds, or at least it can be symmetric, some providers put a damper on it. Around here typically 1GB, higher speeds capable of 2GB (2.5GB, 10GB) require next step in modem technology. Companies around here are not supplying that and if they do, their hardware ONT may not support it and you need to invest into your own better router, not cheap, usually only for enthusiasts...
In case of 2 GB, your LAN switches if you have them and computer also needs network interface capable of those speeds, otherwise you can't take advantage of it, pple sometimes tend to forget when they go beyond the today's standard 1GB speed.
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ahh, I thought you were getting Virgin! my virgin is all installed above ground, via the open reach poles
had free internet for like 8 months now haha :P
Yeah, when I had Virgin come out before they said it was out of budget and they weren't offering above ground where I live.ahh, I thought you were getting Virgin! my virgin is all installed above ground, via the open reach poles
Tbh mate going from like max 20mbs to 1gb is a god send lol, and if the Mrs was streaming anything or playing ******* sims it would just be unusable for me lol.
Speeds are up and down at the minute, guessing this is normal because we are the first ones to have fibre out of the 5 houses near us?
speeds should be solid from the get go o.0 what you getting? who you with? BT or someone else?
We have access to up to 8gb download/upload residential and 10gb commercial in my town. I was a beta tester for their 2gb line before they released it, and although the speeds are incredible, honestly, right now they're not worth it.
Most households will not be able to make use of over 1GB speeds due to the technology they have. When I got the 2GB installed into my property, my motherboard on my PC could only handle up to 1GB so I had to buy a PCI-E adapter to make use of the speeds. Every other piece of tech in the property couldn't handle the speeds e.g my Laptop, Series X, Mobiles Phones, Smart TV's etc.
Definitely can see the faster speeds being adventurous in the future, perhaps 5-8 years. Right now its just a waste of money, though I do wish I could make use of my providers 8GB product hahaha
That youfibre? I could get them where I lived previously, and the cost isn’t even that bad 8000/8000 for £99. I would probably get it, my home is 10gb networked up to the balls , even my pc, and even now currently on 2 gig, with a decent ish pc, my steam never goes higher than 160mb, yeah sure speed tests show 2gig, but it’s so useless atm lol, I’m prob going to stick with 1000/1000 that I can get on virgin for around £48 2gig would be £90, if it was around £60 might have done it just because I can lol.
Yeah YouFibre. They started their operations in my town and surrounding village but they're very quickly expanding into all surrounding towns, cities, villages etc.
My experience with them has been incredible so far, very stable, incredibly reasonable prices and they're **** hot with their engineers when something goes wrong.
I've also stuck to the 1GB for now just because I couldn't justify the 2GB when I finished the 6 month beta testing if I couldn't use it on all my products. But for £31.99 per month of a 1GB line and x2 Eero Mesh Routers, I can't complain at all!
When I knew I was getting fttp in the area I networked the whole house up, so luckily don’t need to rely on WiFi, although I do have a ubiquiti access point seems to serve the whole house luckily, tempted to get the u7 pro haha, but costs a bit atm
I like the bandwidth as it gives me overhead on backups and running a media server for friends and family. Long live Plex.
FTTP was the best thing to come to our area as we didn't have Virgin in our area, so the fastest we could get was like 70/80mbps with Sky/BT but they are so overpriced it was ridiculous. These guys come in and pretty much took all their customer right away. I've moved house since they first came into the area, but I do wish I hard wired everywhere.
Fastest I could get was 20/5 haha, virgin installed their new network in the area, really fast, there is altnet grain nearby but looking on a map they done like 5 roads and virgin did a whole town
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Still double what I could get :P
