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June 5, 2024 at 1:35 pm in reply to: ASUS TUF-AX6000 – Official Thread New ASUS TUF-AX6000 Firmware version 3.0.0.4.388_32432 Version 3.0.0.4.388_32432 2023/08/16 Bug Fixes and Enhancements: 1.Added OCN(Open Computer Network) Support . 2.Updated the IPTV settings to ensure improved compatibility with Singtel-Others MIO... #32436
TUF-AX6000 also has OpenWRT support but definitely look at the TUF-AX4200 (imo OpenWRT > Merlin). You can also look at the RT-AX59U. It has identical hardware to the TUF-AX4200 but only has 1 Gbps ports.
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December 4, 2023 at 5:10 pm in reply to: Netgear XR1000 (AX5400) WiFi Gaming Router – Official Thread Latest Firmware Version 1.0.0.64 New Features: Supports the Ad Blocker feature Supports DNS over HTTPS (DoH) Security Fixes: Fixes security vulnerabilities. Download: https://www.downloads.netgear.com/files/GDC/XR1000/XR1000-V1.0.0.64_1.0.49.zip In a completely sane world, madness... #28340box.co.uk is currently selling this for £125.58 on Ebay
Would you take this over the DSL-AX82U I hear it’s similar hardware?
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November 13, 2023 at 12:17 am in reply to: Time to switch? So had a look at the Black Friday deals and well BT are just having a laugh, they want around £35 a month for the 150 FTTP connection I currently... #28019I’ve not done the maths but I’m pretty sure the BT black friday deals are worse than the prices they have year round. 3 months free but the price is jacked up.
I’m still waiting to see what the actual black friday deals are e.g. vodafone have black friday deals on right now but:

Conveniently it ends the day before actual black friday. If nothing really tempting I think I’m just gonna stick it out till April to avoid the price increase (and recommend others do the same). The monthly price has to be like £4 cheaper than standard prices to make buying now worth it over the contract length.
Something like £22 for 150 Mbps or £27 for 500 Mbps are my biting points. Vodafone had 500 for £28 2 weeks ago so I’m maybe hoping they go to £27 plus vouchers.
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kev, you should have a look tomorrow after 9am there should be some interesting deals on BT. Tomorrow is the proper launch of EE services including 1.6 Gbps FTTP. They are also integrating netduma into their router: https://netduma.com/blog/ee/
I’m hoping BT follow.
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Must have just been a sync problem I put the Billion back in and I’m getting the same upload now. Kind of wish I had an outage so it resynched higher but oh well.
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I’m so confused what they have done. My package does say Fibre 2 but then my upload was always 10 Mbps before. The billion is a totally dumb modem so you can’t access anything in modem mode.

I think maybe they haven’t changed anything but since my Billion has been connected for literally months it’s never resynced at the higher rate. I might plug it in later to see but for now I’m relatively happy.
I have also set up a BQM just to see.
The red is when I flashed merlin and configured cake. See if it helps with spikes.
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Decided to put in the DSL-AX82U last night. Found a potential loophole for speeds. My BT limits are:


I know for a fact that my upload was capped around 10 as I did alot the past few months. That was on a Billion 8800NL modem and eero setup.

The Asus DSL seems to just ignore this limit for some reason. I’m getting about 50 Mbps download and 18 Mbps upload now even with cake configured.
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I’d be curious to see how the Sky wifi 6 router performs can’t find much about it.
I was also thinking of sky as they seem to be pushing the gaming side of it but the dhcp stuff put me off. It seems like you either keep their router and hope range is good enough or Asus merlin. Not much choice compared to a PPPoE provider.
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I got the sceenshot from here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suy6xJrcsZY
They show dsleports but not much. I like waveform because you get numbers after the test to draw some conclusion from. It also generally coinsides with own pings tests when running so I tend to believe it. It’s much more recent than dslreports test also.
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You would think that but I’ve seen it be pretty bad on some 1 Gbps lines.

63ms jitter and 256ms average ping!
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I don’t know if I should wait for YouFibre. I got someone to run a Bufferbloat test for me.
https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=9228ce1c-2739-49c5-8505-a3e33778b07d
You don’t even need sqm it seems.
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If you have those options it should not matter much when Openreach decide to do your area.
If you want to find out it though: https://www.openreach.com/fibre-broadband/where-when-building-ultrafast-full-fibre-broadband
Scroll down a little and you will see a map. Put in your postcode and it will tell you if they are building in the next 12 months.
Also put your postcode and building into https://bidb.uk
This will tell you of any other prividers laying fibre in your area.
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Damn is it really 2025 for you? If so yeah not much you can do. Definitely no altnets building soon via https://bidb.uk/ ?
I’m still thinking about who I should go with. I quite like TalkTalk as another choice. Might be a refreshing change to have a non PPPoE provider and it will allow more flexibility in router choice. I really want to try out the non 6 series of Eero as I heard they are really great. Couldn’t do that since the older Eero generation doesn’t support PPPoE.
It’s so complex right now. I’m in contact with BT for trials of their latest broadband speeds and router but apparently their whole system is having ordering problems which won’t be fixed for afew weeks so it’s not even started. I either get that which should be good or I wait till Netomnia builds in my area which is apparently mid December I could get it. That means YouFibre 1Gbps symmetric for £27.99 but then I don’t trust them as much to solve problems. Plus BT has allowed me to just download whatever I have wanted with TB per month and they have never said anything. I doubt I’d have that luxury on YouFibre.
There’s also the small thing of Black Friday being pretty close (most companies start around the start of November) so that’s another plus on me waiting to see.
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