fraggsta
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I'm currently on Virgin 350 Mb. I get about 380 Mb and no drops in speed at any time of day or night. The connection I get from them is good but I'm starting to want something faster and Virgin won't offer me 500 Mb/s or 1 Gb. CityFibre have been through my part of Leeds laying cables in the last 6 months and my discounted price from Virgin is ending in August so I'm thinking of leaving and going onto Vodafone. The Vodafone website assures me I can get Gigafast and that it will be 900 Mb/s.
I intend to use my own router, a Linksys WRT3200ACM running OpenWRT (Lede). I use several VLANs on my network, specify static IPs for various things through DHCP and run my own VPN on the connection, and I have a genuine need to be able to VPN into my own LAN from outside.
My house isn't actually right next to the road. I am about 50 metres from the nearest road, and have to walk down a footpath to get to one. I only ever saw CityFibre engineers laying cables along the road. I know that the Vodafone checker says I can get Gigafast, but can they actually get a connection to me? How will this be done if my house isn't right next to a road. Virgin apparently has copper cables going down these footpaths, but I don't know how this would be done on a CityFibre connection.
Can I use my own router with Gigafast? I've seen some posts suggesting it's possible but it's not really clear. Is there a modem only mode for the router that Virgin will give me? What kind of port into the house will I get, does a CityFibre connection result in an ethernet cable into the house or something else? I've seen some posts online suggesting it is possible, but many of them seem to refer to previous Vodafone products which would be delivered via different technology, using a different router etc.
I have an Intel Atom D510M0 board running pfsense. I might consider using this or getting a more powerful small computer to run pfsense or more likely opnsense. Does anyone know whether this will work with Vodafone Gigafast? Has someone got it working with pfsense/opnsense?
Lastly, do people recommend Vodafone Gigafast? I've heard very mixed opinions about it.
I intend to use my own router, a Linksys WRT3200ACM running OpenWRT (Lede). I use several VLANs on my network, specify static IPs for various things through DHCP and run my own VPN on the connection, and I have a genuine need to be able to VPN into my own LAN from outside.
My house isn't actually right next to the road. I am about 50 metres from the nearest road, and have to walk down a footpath to get to one. I only ever saw CityFibre engineers laying cables along the road. I know that the Vodafone checker says I can get Gigafast, but can they actually get a connection to me? How will this be done if my house isn't right next to a road. Virgin apparently has copper cables going down these footpaths, but I don't know how this would be done on a CityFibre connection.
Can I use my own router with Gigafast? I've seen some posts suggesting it's possible but it's not really clear. Is there a modem only mode for the router that Virgin will give me? What kind of port into the house will I get, does a CityFibre connection result in an ethernet cable into the house or something else? I've seen some posts online suggesting it is possible, but many of them seem to refer to previous Vodafone products which would be delivered via different technology, using a different router etc.
I have an Intel Atom D510M0 board running pfsense. I might consider using this or getting a more powerful small computer to run pfsense or more likely opnsense. Does anyone know whether this will work with Vodafone Gigafast? Has someone got it working with pfsense/opnsense?
Lastly, do people recommend Vodafone Gigafast? I've heard very mixed opinions about it.