Matisyahu's Blog

It has been a month since it was announced that Spark would start offering DHCP connectivity for fibre customers but it would be a gradual roll out – I received confirmation today that Skinny customers can now switch over from PPPoE to DHCP. I wasn’t expecting much of a change but I was in for a bit of a surprise. For starters there was a speed increase when it came to downloads – I haven’t got the original test but it was run from the UDM router itself with a top throughput of 500Mbps however I switched over to DHCP, rebooted my router and got the following result:

That was running the test directly on the router itself to avoid any variables that are unaccounted for. I’m located down in Wellington and the test server is located in Auckland. It has been a few hours and I haven’t received ‘high latency’ messages in the UniFi Dashboard which is a big improvement than the regular high latency messages I’d get every day. Although I have moved from PPPoE over to DHCP I have kept the Cloudflare DNS settings because I’ve had a bad run of DNS issues in the past using my internet service provider’s own DNS server and although it is resolved now it is a whole lot easier just sticking with Cloudflare because it has been working reliably for months.