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[blairhartley]

Lucky enough to have FTTP despite living in the middle of nowhere.  All good.

Since Openreach enabled us, they've quoted a maximum upload speed of 220Mbps... yet my ISP doesn't offer it, nor do any others I've looked at.  Assuming this isn't an OR error, any ideas where the disparity comes from?

[Alex Atkin UK]

Lucky enough to have FTTP despite living in the middle of nowhere.  All good.

Since Openreach enabled us, they've quoted a maximum upload speed of 220Mbps... yet my ISP doesn't offer it, nor do any others I've looked at.  Assuming this isn't an OR error, any ideas where the disparity comes from?

I believe it is only offered for business packages, not residential.

[j0hn]

[blairhartley]

Thanks both for your replies... makes sense (though still frustrating).

[dee.jay]

Only way to go above that is a point-to-point ethernet service such as Openreach EAD (Ethernet Access Direct). The markup on that for Openreach is phenomenal, so this is why you will never see a symmetrical or high upload PON based FTTP product.

[adslmax]

[j0hn]

[adslmax]

UnchainedISP SoGea, SoGfast and FTTP also on expensive side but their service is top class, always excellent support and service feel like a business grade! But I was surprise to see Faelix are way too expensive ISP.

[dee.jay]

[Alex Atkin UK]

Don't know about Starlink but I've had tons of problems with L2TP over Three 5G.  It makes my whole connection unstable if the L2TP is unstable, because the firewall is constantly bouncing. 

Although I did notice pfSense was set to reset all states on loss of a WAN instead of just states for the connection that dropped, so it may have been that which was the bigger problem.

Another problem you wouldn't have though is pfSense doesn't seem to support L2TP over PPPoE, it only lets you choose real NIC interfaces in the L2TP configuration.  I ended up downgrading L2TP to the Lite package, so its there if Zen have any routing issues and for general testing.

[bogof]

[Alex Atkin UK]

[adslmax]

Why is Zen FTTP so expensive than rest of other ISPs?

[Alex Atkin UK]