SIRO - ESB/Vodafone Fibre To The Home

Got Vodafone FTTH connected a couple of days ago, totally delighted! I'm using my own Asus RT-AX86U router and it's totally rocking (getting 940Mbps/100Mbps)! What a difference for online gaming also, ping reduced by 40% on average, jitter from average 4ms on Virgin to 0.5ms on Vodafone FTTH. What a time to be alive

Btw VM offered me 35e for the first 6 months and then 71 for 500Mbps, Vodafone is 39.95 for 12 months for 1Gbps

schmoo2k wrote: »

3.5TB (up + down combined) - which is high I know!

I'd be sticking with VM:pac:

Douglas Eegit wrote: »

Exact same, the fibre is rolled up on the ESB pole outside the house. Thought it would be a quick process as the ESB feed to the house is right there but something is not adding up.
Where's the holdup does anyone know? Is it Siro or ...

It's Siro (according to digiweb).

dionsiseire wrote: »

Just wanted to add back that I've been toying around trying to figure out why I'm getting only 260mb down.

Finally changing DNS to a public provider transformed it instantly. Now I'm getting 800mb almost consistently the last 30-60 mins

That doesn't sound right - the DNS simply translates web address like www.google.ie to IP addresses like 74.125.193.94 and it will only do it once for a large file download...

Now having a fast DNS server is important for things like initial web page loading time so making your change is a good thing. FYI I use:
1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1 as mine which were at the time the fastest (see https://1.1.1.1/dns/ for more info).

Just got Siro installed from pure telecom today. Supposed to be 1GB download. What's the best way of testing the speed. When I test it over wi-fi on a laptop I'm only getting about 50mb/s and when I plug the laptop into the router I get about 400 mb/s.

It's perfect for what I need but curious how I can see if I'm getting the 1gb I was promised.

Sunny!! wrote: »

20mb all day normally 250mb.
Has anyone come across this before? Could it be the modem?

Try connecting to the 5Ghz network on your Gigabox router, you’ll have faster wireless speed on that.

FrasierCrane wrote: »

Just got Siro installed from pure telecom today. Supposed to be 1GB download. What's the best way of testing the speed. When I test it over wi-fi on a laptop I'm only getting about 50mb/s and when I plug the laptop into the router I get about 400 mb/s.

It's perfect for what I need but curious how I can see if I'm getting the 1gb I was promised.

Firstly if you signed up for the 1GB service then your download speed should be between 880-942mb with a ping of about 5 connecting the laptop to the modem via cable. Also is is best to use either a CAT5e or 6 cable. (use www.speedtest.net and select a server like Blacknight for example).

Also does your laptop support 5ghz for wi fi? You will know this if you see 2 versions of the same modem on the available networks option. If this is the case click on the 5ghz one and enter the long WLAN network key and click connect. You should see faster speeds of on average between 200-460mb depending on distance.

Lastly on the day of installation did the installer do a speed test on his laptop before he left, showing you the speeds he was getting?

cunnijo wrote: »

Firstly if you signed up for the 1GB service then your download speed should be between 880-942mb with a ping of about 5 connecting the laptop to the modem via cable. Also is is best to use either a CAT5e or 6 cable. (use www.speedtest.net and select a server like Blacknight for example).

Also does your laptop support 5ghz for wi fi? You will know this if you see 2 versions of the same modem on the available networks option. If this is the case click on the 5ghz one and enter the long WLAN network key and click connect. You should see faster speeds of on average between 200-460mb depending on distance.

Lastly on the day of installation did the installer do a speed test on his laptop before he left, showing you the speeds he was getting?

Thanks. Will try the laptop again tomorrow.

He didn't show me any speed test and I tried to stay away from him doing his work under the current circumstances.

The Fritz box router is connected to the Siro box on the wall via a LAN port on the router. Is this normal? On the old Vodafone router it was connected to the wall socket via the DSL port.

Hey Guys,

Every second night, for the last year, at 10pm my SIRO connection with PURE drops consistently for a few minutes.



Thoughts? Cheers..

alan4cult wrote: »

Could be your DHCP lease refreshing? It last for 24 hours I think. Is your IP changing?

IP address remains the same.

stamjoe wrote: »

Hey Guys,

Every second night, for the last year, at 10pm my SIRO connection with PURE drops consistently for a few minutes.

Thoughts? Cheers..

Where did you get that output? I'm with pure the last couple of months only, and it's generally been excellent, but I've noticed the odd drop recently and it would be handy to be able to see when they occurred if I need to get on to their tech support.

CoBo55 wrote: »

Probably a router log. Maybe he has his own router that gives more info. 10pm is a very annoying time to be going down:mad:

Yeah it's the log on the fritzbox, quite annoying being down for 3/4 minutes, it's really strange to happen every second night for almost a year now, think I'll just switch from Pure, I was with Airwire, great support there, not getting much from Pure hence a post here.

I checked my fritzbox and I have the same event log at 1:30am every second day. mix of errors and successes. Same IP address.

alan4cult wrote: »

Trying turning off the router at say 11pm and wait and see if it moves to 11pm drop the following night.
Sounds like a DHCP lease renewal to me but could be something on their side too.

I'll try something like that, 10:30pm couldn't be a worse time for me.