I have been on ADSL for years; for the last 12 months with John Lewis, supplied by PlusNet. We don't have high bandwidth demands so that has been sufficient, but for security reasons my internal LAN is segmented into several VLANs.
Approaching renewal time, Vodafone were offering 38Mbps WBC FTTC cheaper than anything I could find for ADSL (my exchange is Market A), so I have contracted with them and switchover is scheduled for 30/1/18.
I am aware that there is widespread dissatisfaction with the VF supplied router, and have bought and unlocked a Technicolor DGA4130 and now run DSLstats on a Raspberry Pi Zero, with data uploaded to MDWS. I was inspired by the informative thread on that here
http://forum.kitz.co.uk/index.php/topic,20343.0.htmlVF have assured me that once the line is live they will give me my broadband username and password, and judging by others' recent experience that shouldn't be a problem
. My question is, how long should I leave the VF router connected before I switch over to the DGA4130? I believe that for ADSL, the recommended 'settling in' period is 10 days, but is it the same for VDSL?
I don't know if I will be able to extract line stats from the VF router, so I am keen to start with the DGA4130 as soon as possible. (Although to be honest I don't yet understand the significance of most of the numbers!)
Any suggestions would be most welcome!
(PS to mods: if this is in the wrong place, please relocate it. Thanks!)