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Hi all. Netomnia are currently installing fibre in my area with a tentative completion date of July.

I've very tempted to move to them when possible as I can only get FTTC at the moment. My only concern is as I work from home will my work laptop connect properly. I've been reading contradictory things about issues with cgnat. Work use zscaler rather than a conventional VPN.

I'll ask youfibre when the time comes but any advice would be appreciated.
 
If you pay the extra £5/month for a static IP address then you don't get put behind CGNAT. I'm also not really sure why Zscaler would care about CGNAT but the short answer is that it's difficult to know unless you try it.

When I moved to YouFibre, I didn't request cancellation on my existing line until after I'd worked from home with the new line for a couple weeks, which ultimately meant there was a month where I paid for both lines but had an easy exit if there was a problem. A small price to pay given my livelihood depends on full-time WFH. Had there been an issue, I could have just exercised the 14 day cool-off period to cancel the new YouFibre connection and stuck with my existing one.
 
Hi all. Netomnia are currently installing fibre in my area with a tentative completion date of July.

I've very tempted to move to them when possible as I can only get FTTC at the moment. My only concern is as I work from home will my work laptop connect properly. I've been reading contradictory things about issues with cgnat. Work use zscaler rather than a conventional VPN.

I'll ask youfibre when the time comes but any advice would be appreciated.
It won't be an issue.
 
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If you pay the extra £5/month for a static IP address then you don't get put behind CGNAT. I'm also not really sure why Zscaler would care about CGNAT but the short answer is that it's difficult to know unless you try it.

When I moved to YouFibre, I didn't request cancellation on my existing line until after I'd worked from home with the new line for a couple weeks, which ultimately meant there was a month where I paid for both lines but had an easy exit if there was a problem. A small price to pay given my livelihood depends on full-time WFH. Had there been an issue, I could have just exercised the 14 day cool-off period to cancel the new YouFibre connection and stuck with my existing one.
Well done on doing it in such a way that you had a backup. Saw a thread on Reddit the other day where one unlucky chap decided to have VM install the day the other one cut off. VM install experienced delays, they are now without internet altogether… If you are migrating between the same underlying wholesale provider there’s not a lot you can do, but when migrating to a different one you absolutely should keep both running.
 
Because YouFibre will run their own fibre cable from their nearest exchange (not the Openreach one), you can have both running concurrently if you wish.

I hate having a single point of failure, so we've got a 4G LTE router as a fail over in case the primary WAN goes down. I've never needed it this far with YouFibre, but it paid for itself when we were on BT VDSL as they experienced a heap of problems in the village!
 
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Because YouFibre will run their own fibre cable from their nearest exchange (not the Openreach one), you can have both running concurrently if you wish.

I hate having a single point of failure, so we've got a 4G LTE router as a fail over in case the primary WAN goes down. I've never needed it this far with YouFibre, but it paid for itself when we were on BT VDSL as they experienced a heap of problems in the village!
Not sure what you were trying to get at, but YouFibre don't have their own exchanges, they use Openreach ones.
 
Not sure what you were trying to get at, but YouFibre don't have their own exchanges, they use Openreach ones.

Indeed, they just use Access Locate within Openreach exchanges, Cablelink external from within to the street, then they run their fibres mostly inside Openreach PIA...
 
you can have both running concurrently if you wish.
Suspect the caveat here guys is they mean the fibre, not the exchange. As you can run both ISPs without issue (unlike both sharing the BTOR last mile).
 
Not sure what you were trying to get at, but YouFibre don't have their own exchanges, they use Openreach ones.
In our rollout area, there's dozens of Openreach exchanges - Netomnia have about 4. Our FTTP isn't fed from the Openreach cab in the streets, which means getting a YF line didn't impact our OR line. Our YF line is serviced from the next town over, not the Openreach exchange that is 700mtrs away (which is where our BT line is serviced from).
 
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I think Netomnia base themselves in the handover exchanges. Long term BT will look to close a number of smaller exchanges as the fibre can easily be run further and there is plenty of room in the exchanges now the older pre system x gear is gone, with more to come as copper network gets decommisioned
 
I think Netomnia base themselves in the handover exchanges. Long term BT will look to close a number of smaller exchanges as the fibre can easily be run further and there is plenty of room in the exchanges now the older pre system x gear is gone, with more to come as copper network gets decommisioned
Yup. They only use exchanges that Openreach have OLTs in themselves.
 
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