I got 99 problems but my WiFi ain't one

Hmmm just tried plugging the Deco straight into the CF modem (after trying to convince myself I haven't got time to be fucking around with it) and the speedtest dropped down to about 200ish on my phone. More investigation needed I think.

That does seem like a big drop? I think it's normal to have some reduction in speed for each unit within the mesh including the primary one.

My speed is 66mbps, however web pages can be horrficly slow to load, on all devices. This can't be right? 66mpbs should be reasonably fast.

Anyone got any suggestions?

Running a 4g router with simcard.

Perhaps high latency? The typical website contains a bazillion small objects so although your bulk transfer rate might be high if the delay to get the start of each request is also high you will spend a lot of time waiting. Also check your DNS performance.

Result ID
DOWNLOAD Mbps
66.67
UPLOAD Mbps
18.02
Ping ms 50 284 199

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thanks will look into dns performace on google

Ping ms 50 284 199

That's fairly icky. For something to compare on my 80/20 FTTC line to 8.8.8.8 I get
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 6.810/7.064/7.623/0.245 ms

Thanks. I consulted with @hippy on how to set up a DNS and will try that

As well as what I sent you, if you're bored you can build yourself a pihole and set its fallback DNS servers to be 1.1.1.1 or whatever.

This blocks a load of shit like ads and tracking, which has the side-effect of not wasting your bandwidth to help advertising arseholes.

I think a bunch of peeps on here use NextDNS which I think might be a paid service but achieves a similar thing with less faff than rolling your own pihole.

Set up cloudflare dns, seems improved already (qualitatively from browsing). Will have a deeper look later.

DOWNLOAD Mbps
78.62
UPLOAD Mbps
15.03
Ping ms 56 352 213

I might try moving the ariel again, up higher, now I've a bigger ladder.

I might try moving the ariel again, up higher, now I've a bigger ladder.

Under the sea will definitely be hampering your internet speeds.

You could try 8.8.8.8 as well, instead of 1.1.1.1 just for shits and gigs

Anyone after some Deco M4s? Forum friendly deal. Pack of 3.

Thanks for the dns suggestion. Setting to cloudflarw sorted the lag issue.

I have 3 x TP-Link TL-PA7017P AV1000 Gigabit Powerline Adapters going spare if anyone wants them before they go on ebay? Was using them for ethernet backhaul on a set of mesh decos which greatly improved speed but wasn't 100% stable. Now had some ethernet put in with the house re-wire.

Anyone using Community Fibre and used their own network extenders? I'd rather not pay £5 a month indefinitely for something worth £60-90

In theory it should be easy to use any Linksys Velops extender, in the FAQs, Linksys say

Can I add non-Community Fibre child nodes?
They will work depending on the ISP firmware features. Contact Community Fibre for more information.

https://www.linksys.com/gb/support-article/?articleNum=334151#T2

But am assuming if I ask CF, they will just say no and point me to the £5/m whole house upgrade.

Edit: @RodSaetan did you have any luck?

Second edit: looks like it should be straightforward
https://help.communityfibre.co.uk/troubleshooting/wifi-and-broadband-troubleshooting/i-want-to-know-how-to-set-up-my-router/-an-additional-router

We bought our own Linksys extender, works really well

https://amzn.eu/d/enqQ9jM

Great. Have taken a punt on a WiFi only extender, since that's all we need for now, fingers crossed it works.

Belated edit for anyone who's searching for the same info; yep worked fine, appears to be nothing unique about the Community Fibre Linksys Velops box, all works as expected.

The extender was a bit finicky to set up, and has surprisingly limited range from the base station, but in return has good speeds

https://www.linksys.com/gb/dual-band-ac1300-mesh-wifi-5-range-extender/WHW0101P-UK.html

Finally got around to setting up my new Asus 86U. Nothing worked, obviously.

I gave up on the mobile app and plugged a laptop in. I think the crux of the issue was Virgin cable not liking to have the routers swapped. 10min with all the shit unplugged to fix up DHCP and we were in business.

For some reason they've changed VPN Client to VPN Fusion, whatever the fuck that means. I think I've got my WireGuard profile running ok but I see none of the old options like "if tunnel goes down don't open up" or "fuck it, disable the vpn" kinda stuff. It looks like you can set up a few options slightly less clunky than previously but I don't know how easy it is to swap between them - would be cool if it detected a failure to move to another node.

Speedtest with VPN on desktop is faster than wired laptop which is odd but whatever, it's an old laptop.

I think the crux of the issue was Virgin cable not liking to have the routers swapped.

Yep. 5 minutes with the power off tends to fix that.

I gave it 10, powered on the Virgin hub, waited through white and green lights until the light went red (which stupidly means it's working) and then turned on the router and the WAN light went white instead of red and I went "fuck yes you bastard".

Virgin Tivo didn't like running through the VPN so I excluded it. Anyone had this?

Any comments on this mob?

https://heybroadband.co.uk/

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wtaf is an it professional doing using virgin smh. just use some flavour of openreach

Because it's available, fast and I watch a lot of TV and because BT wouldn't stop fucking contacting me when we left the last place until I emailed half their fucking board of directors so fuck anything associated with BT.

It has been 10+ years though so I'll maybe have a look at openreach

Looks like I can only get their 80Mbit "superfast" option and they don't show prices although BT says from £39 per month and only seem to offer 24month contracts.

Do they do monthly? Do they do faster? Do they do cheaper? If none of those then they're not much use.