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@nsmhd @dee.jay - how is the latency on symmetric 2Gbps VMO2?
latency is higher via VM than OR.

Ping to 1.1.1.1 is 9ms via AAISP.
Ping to 1.1.1.1 is 11ms via VM.

I am in South Wales.

Ignore latency because speedtest gives weird results, but when you speedtest both lines together: -


Pure VM result is the usual 2000/2000 you see elsewhere.
 
So my WAS-110 arrived yesterday, and my LC/ACP to SC/APC adapter arrived today, which has ultimately meant I've been able to have a play this evening to get it all set up.

Very very excited (techy for you) to have it all up and working! No more Hub 5x. Nice to see Unifi report the correct WAN IP's for a change and do away with the Double NAT'ing!
 
So my WAS-110 arrived yesterday, and my LC/ACP to SC/APC adapter arrived today, which has ultimately meant I've been able to have a play this evening to get it all set up.

Very very excited (techy for you) to have it all up and working! No more Hub 5x. Nice to see Unifi report the correct WAN IP's for a change and do away with the Double NAT'ing!
Thanks for sharing. Can I ask where you bought it? was easy to configure?

Thanks.
 
Bought mine from fibre mall, just need to flash it with new firmware and plug some details in off the VM hub, easy peasy.
 
Yer, bought from Fibre Mall (like @dee.jay). Ships from China but it arrived in about 3 days via DHL.
 
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many thanks guys for your messages, just the last question, any extra expenses for customs? Fiber mall didn't share when I asked. I'm reading your blog @nsmhd many thanks for sharing.
 
many thanks guys for your messages, just the last question, any extra expenses for customs? Fiber mall didn't share when I asked. I'm reading your blog @nsmhd many thanks for sharing.
Well nothing from customs yet but that’s not to say I won’t get a customs invoice in the next week or two will let you know if I do.
 
I've so far not had any issues with customs either. I think that's probably because the FibreMall one value when converted into GBP is around the price of the threshold for importing without having to pay any duty.

Pretty sure DHL won't even deliver it either if customs ask for duty to be paid, as it's them that pay as the courier, which they'll usually want you to pay them upfront.
 
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I've never got it to work, so have lived with double NAT for now.

That said, I did discover the world of WAS-110 over the weekend and have already ordered one - should hopefully arrive in the next two weeks!

I've even re-routed my fibre in anticipation! Virgin would only install in my Living Room, whereas i've ran a new fibre from the outside box to where my comms rack is.
Bit late to the party, but interested to know more about this, specifically re-routing the fibre, is it a relatively easy thing to do? Virgin installed mine in a not so convenient place and it would be great to be able to move it.
 
I think it's tp link has released a xgs ont recently? I believe.
 
I think it's tp link has released a xgs ont recently? I believe.
If this for a possible alternative to the WAS-110 then the reason it gets used is there is custom firmware that allows the information sent to the OLT to be changed. If the TP-Link ONT doesn't allow this (or can't be made to do this somehow) then my understanding is the WAS-110 is the only option still
 
There has been some talk of the new TP-Link ONT on Reddit and the 8311 discord channel but as far as I’m aware no confirmation that it works with VM/Nexfibres XGS-PON service.

In regards to moving the fibre there are fibre extension cables you can buy but you will need to watch the signal light levels depending on the length.

An alternative would be to have a cheap switch with a WAS-110 in where the fibre comes in and run either fibre or cat6 upto where your router etc is.
 
In regards to moving the fibre there are fibre extension cables you can buy but you will need to watch the signal light levels depending on the length.
That isn't true, dude. The length of the fibre won't make any appreciable difference to the light levels.
 
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That isn't true, dude. The length of the fibre won't make any appreciable difference to the light levels.
In most cases yes your right but just wanted to put that caveat in that you need to watch the light levels don’t go too low.
Adaptors/ couplers can introduce some loss.

Actually should have mentioned how clean the fibre is as I manged to shave -4Db off mine by cleaning the fibre at all the joints as they were dirty and not cleaned by the installers.
 
In most cases yes your right but just wanted to put that caveat in that you need to watch the light levels don’t go too low.
Adaptors/ couplers can introduce some loss.

Actually should have mentioned how clean the fibre is as I manged to shave -4Db off mine by cleaning the fibre at all the joints as they were dirty and not cleaned by the installers.
Even if you put a coupler with a 100m SM Fibre to move your kit you'll be fine. Nothing to worry about
APC isn't easily susceptable to dirt compared to PC connections
 
Still no official modem mode on the 5x? /goes back to sleep
 
Apologies for the random question, but how can you tell what exchange you're going through with the 4 letter word before core? Just interested personally.

Traceroute to 1.1.1.1 (keeping in mind I'm fairly sure the modem would be a Hub 5x possibly (not at home and I'm in a VM FTTP area atm) shows "azte-core-2a..." for me.
Missed this. Almost always no, this is the equivalent in Openreach world of the first hop that responds to your traceroute. You'll almost certainly go through other sites on your way to that first hop you just don't see it in your traceroute as the connection is encapsulated until it hits the BNG. Think BT/EE/Plusnet are the only ones that terminate connections in the exchange, everyone else sends them to their datacentres and collects subscribers up in those so they travel in PPP or Ethernet until they land at the BRAS / BNG.
 
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