Last week I switched from a Giganet 500/70 service over Openreach, to an EE 900/110 service. I'm in the Brighton and Hove area. My first impressions:
- Migration to EE was near seamless (as much as good be). old connection went down at 0105. I only needed to update the userid for the ppp connection to get EE to spring into life
- Useful text etc messages to clarify what was happening
- able to get the full speed (ie ~930 Mbps/110 Mbps on some devices)
- routing noticeably better than my old ISP. Pings dropped from ~7ms to 3-4ms to key sites (my old ISP moved me to a POP further away) ([aside more traceroute timeouts from hop reports, but that's not unusual due to router config]
- occasional glitches with old ISP are gone - including also oddities like not getting full (ie <500) from a few sites whilst most were ok. Probably peering limitations
- IPv4 fine. Nice to see no CGNAT (as I knew)
- IPv6 also working fine with a /56 prefix allocation. In fact this is accounting (as previously) for around 90% of my traffic
- Being a large ISP, the IP ranges (though only had 2 so far as I connected. Later in evening rejigged some things, been connected for week) are known to be in UK, so occasional incorrect country issues are gone.
I've not contacted anyone (as long as base service is ok that's on me - technical) nor am I using the ISP router. Too basic for my needs (which I knew up front)
I was **very close** to going with a smaller specialist ISP, but ultimately decided I could live with limitations of a mass-market service (no fixed ip etc) whilst taking advantage of some of the strengths.
Less keen on some of the sales/marketing aspects, price rises, negotiation. Been through that in the past. But at a technical level, a better service worth paying slightly more for. A bit like EE mobile really. put that off as more expensive for a long time, once onboard it's clear that frankly it works better ... 😉
Note: I am using my own router (a toptron n100 miniPC with 4 x 2.5 Gbps I226-V ports, 16GB ram, 512GB disk, running proxmox with WAN passthrough and LAN via a linux/proxmox bridge). DNS is via quad9. running full ipv4/ipv6 dual stack.
