Hi All,
I recently upgraded from G-fast driven fibre 250 to FTTP fibre 900, as the cost benefit differential made it seem like a fairly easy choice. Unfortunately, I only wish the reality was that easy.
First couple of weeks seemed fine, I was hitting c900Mb by ethernet and c400Mb by Wi-fi. Then one day, it all went pear shaped. As most people are nowadays, I do a fair bit of V-Con by Teams or Zoom. I was in a meeting and over half an hour I got the ‘network not stable’ and ‘poor network connection’ 4 times. I thought, it can’t be me, I could speak to Mars with the speeds I’m getting… unfortunately, it was…
The speed was all over the place, but c100Mb and not stable on the Wi-fi and between 200-450Mb but not stable by ethernet.
Long story short, I’ve had 2x open reach and 1x cube engineers - both openreach engineers said it’s not the fibre (respliced and very strong light levels) or the ONT, 2 routers later and the last openreach guy said it’s definitely the router and probably linked to the recent firmware issue. Spoke to BT in Exeter and the lovely lady I spoke to had no idea what I was talking about when I relayed what openreach engineer said, so she went off, talked to her manager and was given an update… I’ll not go into what I think about the fact that the guys on the coal face didn’t even know.
I’ve read a number of threads and pages of comments spanning a couple of years and the common denominator is the absolutely terrible smart hub… whether it’s the hardware, software, or indeed a combination of both it is dreadful.
I’ve just invested in a Linksys Velop MX10600 system and am going to try to set the thing up with the PPPoE and throw the SH2 as far to the back of a cupboard as it will go… I’ve tried using it in conjunction, but even with CAT8 into the ethernet on the SH2 I’m only getting 600Mb , but the Velop pushes out 500Mb of that over Wi-fi 6.
I’ve had to invest in a couple more nodes to replace the BT Wi-fi discs, which I believe are redundant if you don’t use the SH2 - is that the case, before they get pushed in the same cupboard?
Also, have any of you tech experts got any advice on the PPPoE route?
Many thanks in advance.
yours
Frustrated (and now skint) from Lancashire…
