Openreach ONT Speedtest of 1.6gbs

[Bluenose_Dave]

Recently having the new EE 1.6gb/s service went live Openreach engineer said he will come and check the speeds at the ONT as EE smart hubs LANs ports are only 1gb/s,

so he come with his openreach laptop, but his laptop has only a 1gb/s Ethernet port, so any one having this service, ( make sure you have something that can connect over a 2.5gb/s LAN or buy a usb3/c to 2.5gb multigig adapter i got one coming later this week to test it myself from my end of things )

had to go via WiFi speed as it was 980gb/s it was classed as on the 1.6gb/s speeds, now my order is complete when EE call me tomorrow i will ask them to check speeds via their system

[MrCook3]

Forgive me, but why would you order a 1.6gbps service if you don't have devices capable of receiving those speeds?

[Bluenose_Dave]

As only went live Friday after 6 weeks of loss of service, so once openreach have got the service up and running, now i will upgrade router and the switches to support the new speeds

[MrCook3]

Ah okay, that makes more sense!

Hopefully it's smooth sailing for you, I'm definitely interested in the 1.6gbps package but don't think it's possible to upgrade yet.

[Bluenose_Dave]

I hope so, as it been a nightmare i was one of the few that moved from BT too EE, i was on BT 900/110, but when they changed me over i lost the connection, and had weeks of openreach not doing much to resolve it, another factor with the speeds was it worked about about £10 more with the prices at EE to get the 1.6gb/s

[Mcrobo68]

It future proofs your internet, 12 months from now IT hardware and Tech devices will be manufactured to support the faster speeds

[AmIBeingObtuse]

Hi Same boat now. They had to close my old EE broadband account down (from BT) and setup a new one as I was on fibre 900 but that's the only way they could trigger the new 1.6gbps package. Did they provide you a new ONT as my current one is gigabit only. If so what model ONT did they give you? Are you able to send a pic. I am looking forward to the new speeds. I have a firewalla gold SE (2.5gb capable) and a home server with a 2.5Gb nic. I'm just trying to find out as much info as I can about how smooth the install will go. Some people say its just a replacement ONT and should be good to go.

[timprocter]

@AmIBeingObtuse 

 Did they provide you a new ONT as my current one is gigabit only. If so what model ONT did they give you? Are you able to send a pic. 

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This is the ONT they provide mate.👍