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Trooli 2Gb worth it?

My connection isn't being installed till Monday. Have you got a single 10 or 2.5Gb on a PC/Mac to do a full speed test?
Ah ok mine was literally a swap from the old Gb router to the Zyxel.

Thankfully, the router isnt locked down so you can get in and configure your own WLAN etc. if you choose to.

No, i am going to order a 2.5Gb Eth -> USBC adapter for my Macbook M1 air and run the test as at some point, ill be ordering an M3 MBA which i believe can do 2.5Gb ish wifi speeds.

Probably one of these

 
well, after getting completely nowhere trying to get hold of their 'tech support' i thouight i might have a go myself.

So, i do actually have an IPV6 address assigned by the ISP, but i havent got a clue how to get it working on the Zyxel so maybe someone could give me some pointers?

Ill attach screen shots of the settings i have found!

Any help very much appreciated!

Edited to add....

If i enable the setting "IPV6 Address from DHCPv6 server, it appears to dish out IPV6 addresses to clients and pulls in the ISP supplied IPV6 DNS but i still cant get connected.

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Good lord.. 340Mbits of connection overhead lol. Shouldn't laugh, still huge parts of the country stuck on less than 10Mbits ... no reason why these large scale fibre upgrades couldn't have happened a decade ago.

How do you mean 'connection overhead'?

Does that mean 'bad'?
 
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How do you mean 'connection overhead'?

Does that mean 'bad'?
No.. probably should have used the word 'headroom'.. you are paying for 2Gbits.. and their bandwidth limits is set to allow you to download at 2340 so there's 10+% of headroom. At 2Gbits, a little bit of headroom by % is an enormous amount relative to other people's internet connection.

On topic of the thread, I don't have the 2Gbit connection yet, I am still on my peasant 1Gb speed.. and I actually had to download a large game a some other stuff today, at the same time, while working from home, 1Gb it more than fast enough for one person lol. Steam at 1Gb nearly maxes out my CPU doing decompression of that data lol.
But if you are large house hold or a student flat, 2Gbits will be very welcome.
 
Also signed up to the 2G/2G Trooli service with the Zyxel EX5601-T0. Can confirm it's a 2.5 service marketed as 2.0. The ONT, installed Jan 2022 was not changed.

2355 down, 2103 up on today's test.

Also having trouble getting any ipv6 site to work since the new router was installed, exactly like the user above. Will update if I get this working.
 
Also signed up to the 2G/2G Trooli service with the Zyxel EX5601-T0. Can confirm it's a 2.5 service marketed as 2.0. The ONT, installed Jan 2022 was not changed.

2355 down, 2103 up on today's test.

Also having trouble getting any ipv6 site to work since the new router was installed, exactly like the user above. Will update if I get this working.

Yeah it's certainly a setting in the router somewhere as it was working fine with the old Technicolor, and all i did was unplug that and plug in the Zyxel.

After rooting around i enabled the DHCP setting and clients now get ipv6 but cant get out to the web.

Ive also got routing issues i think as i get buffering occasionally (which started happening just before the upgrade) and (for eg) BBC News homepage loads with no pictures (just square grey boxes), but will then suddenly appear (amongst other website issues etc).

Never, ever had this problem before the upgrade and trying to get someone to even speak to in their support team is impossible.
 
Slight update, tried to watch Glasto on Iplayer catch up last night and had several occasions of very slow initial loading, and once had to come out and start again.

Seemed to work ok after that.

Something aint right.
 
What do you get in the Zyxel login - Maintenance - Diagnostic screen if you try and ping Google DNS ipv6? I get no connection at all. I used 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8888 and Ping 6.

common_ping: hostname 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8888
PING 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8888 (2001:4860:4860::8888): 56 data bytes

--- 2001:4860:4860:0:0:0:0:8888 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss
 
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Slight update, tried to watch Glasto on Iplayer catch up last night and had several occasions of very slow initial loading, and once had to come out and start again.

Seemed to work ok after that.

Something aint right.
My internet became much more stable once I disabled the WAN and LAN ipv6 settings. ipv6 isn't working.

Something isn't right with this Zyxel router too, once settings have been changed, its often impossible to undo the change. Other than reset the device, of course.

I'm currently contemplating exporting the settings and editing the backup/restore file to fix the settings I've tried to change. I don't really want to do a full reset as I've set up lots of port forwarding and static IP rules already.
 
I tried to ping the same DNS as you and it just freezes so i have to refresh the page to clear it.

Not sure if i mentioned but it worked fine with the old Technicolor router.

I'll try disabling v6 later when everyone has finished as i suspect the router will reboot.

Did you just select IPV4 only under the general, mode instead of dual stack?

Ah, just spotted an "IPV6 Active' toggle under Home Networking so ill disable that as well.

Its a pain really as i have a few clients that work very well with it enabled.
 
Got mine hooked up yesterday. I have an existing Open Reach 1Gbit PON and the installers were fine/preferred to add a second one for Trooli, rather than using the same fibre from the street hatch.. Which is good by me, as it's easier to change to another supplier in the future.


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I spent hours trying to get the Zyxel router to work with my Ubiquity switch/router.. it refused to provide the Ubiquity device an regular LAN IP address.. in the end I just got the PPPoE details from the Zyxel router and directly connected the Ubiquity WAN port to the fibre box. Put the Zyxel back in the box. Connection works fine, copied the Mac address for good measure. Trooli do say that's ok on their site, but don't expect any support. I would have left in the provided router for a couple weeks for it to 'settle in'.. as it were (doesn't mean anything today), but I was fed up with messing with it. Especially when their support lines close at 17:30.

Doing those speedtests, it does struggle to get the 2Gb, however this might be my Mac, as the speeds the Ubiquity router itself tests at are fine. 2.2Gb ish down and 1.97Gb up.
 
Got mine hooked up yesterday. I have an existing Open Reach 1Gbit PON and the installers were fine/preferred to add a second one for Trooli, rather than using the same fibre from the street hatch.. Which is good by me, as it's easier to change to another supplier in the future.


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I spent hours trying to get the Zyxel router to work with my Ubiquity switch/router.. it refused to provide the Ubiquity device an regular LAN IP address.. in the end I just got the PPPoE details from the Zyxel router and directly connected the Ubiquity WAN port to the fibre box. Put the Zyxel back in the box. Connection works fine, copied the Mac address for good measure. Trooli do say that's ok on their site, but don't expect any support. I would have left in the provided router for a couple weeks for it to 'settle in'.. as it were (doesn't mean anything today), but I was fed up with messing with it. Especially when their support lines close at 17:30.

Doing those speedtests, it does struggle to get the 2Gb, however this might be my Mac, as the speeds the Ubiquity router itself tests at are fine. 2.2Gb ish down and 1.97Gb up.
Looks good.

Although i tested mine direct from the router 2.5 port on a M1 MBA with a 2.5gb to USBc adapter.

Have you got your IPV6 up and running?
 
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