Hi all,
firstly, I got my BT FTTP 900 installed and sorted and it's brilliant, even when using Nord's VPNs I'm hitting 300-400Mbps, trying ExpressVPN next month. my LG B8 OLED TV with its 100BASE-T NIC could only manage 93Mbps - but on 5Ghz Wi-Fi it was getting 300Mbps.... mobile is about the same and between 750-910Mbps download on the PC via G/Bit LAN, ping is between 10ms and 18ms ...happy days
secondly, my experience: when the linesman first arrived
(it was a very young lad from M.J. QUINNS, and said he had been on a 2-week training course for it, and this was his third month in on the job.), he said he wasn't going to do it, because it was going to be 'time-consuming' coming in through the back of the flat, and they are "paid per job" (3-4 per day) and running along where the copper is was no option he said, and it was left in place as he didn't want to 'waste time' removing it, I said just run it through the kitchen (as an external wall JB is there), along the ceiling and down and into the stud wall, behind which is the router and plugs!!??
- so he rang his boss, while i worryingly rang the BT connections dept. who spoke to him and suggested pulling the fibre from a pole facing my living room, which he did, and it turned out to be a better prospect for both of us regarding the speed of the job for him, the cables are now very close to all LAN devices etc, the ONT is behind the TV of course to hide it, had the nosey neighbour downstairs asking him a million questions, such as "why did no one come out to install his fibre?"
(could see the guys face drop like he was sick of explaining it hehe) - he explained it's the 'last mile is copper' to him - to which he very surprisingly didn't moan about, BUT asked who it was for (nosey bugger) and he told him. I wouldn't be surprised if I got a letter from Bernicia Housing saying there has been a complaint!
So this leads me to some questions I'm hoping my fellow Kitizens can help me with?
1) How do you turn off the
'BT Wi-Fi Hot Spot' as I don't want ANYONE using my connection, I'm not bothered about using theirs on the go, i never would have.
2) is there a better router than the HH2, I still have the Zyxel VMG8924-B10A I used on Plusnet. but don't know if it's better than the home hub 2?
3) I would like a router that has AC/N Wi-Fi, but also allows you to try out 3rd party firmware, so you can get extra features, I'm after one that will let you run your choice of VPN through it.
thanks in advance