Kitz ADSL Broadband Information
adsl spacer  
Support this site
Home Broadband ISPs Tech Routers Wiki Forum
 
     
   Compare ISP   Rate your ISP
   Glossary   Glossary
 
Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  

News:

Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 ... 30

Author Topic: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?  (Read 113907 times)

Ronski

  • Helpful
  • Kitizen
  • *
  • Posts: 4300
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #60 on: July 15, 2017, 04:59:54 PM »

Plenty of green tubing with a red stripe going in nearby, but not in my street yet  :no:

Logged
Formerly restrained by ECI and ali,  now surfing along at 390/36  ;D

Chrysalis

  • Content Team
  • Addicted Kitizen
  • *
  • Posts: 7382
  • VM Gig1 - AAISP L2TP
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #61 on: July 15, 2017, 05:30:23 PM »

ronski you going to keep vdsl or ditch plusnet?
Logged

Ronski

  • Helpful
  • Kitizen
  • *
  • Posts: 4300
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #62 on: July 15, 2017, 05:36:35 PM »

Very temped to ditch VDSL, but I am apprehensive of VM reputation, and currently their lousy upload speeds (hopefully they'll bump this up) which are not much better than what I have unless I go for a more expensive package which I don't want to.
Logged
Formerly restrained by ECI and ali,  now surfing along at 390/36  ;D

niemand

  • Kitizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 1836
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #63 on: July 17, 2017, 08:23:07 AM »

They built here too early. Think we're about the last major 'new' build, rather than an infill, that isn't FTTP  ;D

I'm sure some EPON magic will resolve the upload speed concerns though in the interim the more expensive package is the only option.

VM aren't fans of TalkTalk's approach, not least because TalkTalk don't make money on it, and aren't Sky so can't massively subsidise broadband with TV revenues.
Logged

Zico

  • Reg Member
  • ***
  • Posts: 132
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #64 on: July 17, 2017, 08:48:37 PM »

I'm not a fan of TalkTalk full stop.

Thanet is ramping up. My colleague had a few hiccups today but nothing new in our day to day business with Statuary Undertakers  :cool:
Logged

NewtronStar

  • Kitizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 4898
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #65 on: July 18, 2017, 09:51:30 PM »

Might be worth just stopping and having a chat with one of the contractors.

That I did to-day it's Virgin Fibre Optics talked to the guys that were laying down this thin green tube you call a fibre duct it looked like a core diameter of 5mm, most of Bangor N.I has had gone though the same procedure they say it takes a month after laying the duct to then become live.
Logged

burakkucat

  • Respected
  • Senior Kitizen
  • *
  • Posts: 38300
  • Over the Rainbow Bridge
    • The ELRepo Project
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #66 on: July 18, 2017, 10:29:02 PM »

. . . it looked like a core diameter of 5mm, . . .

That will probably be the tubing through which the fibre itself is pushed, whilst floating within a stream of air.
Logged
:cat:  100% Linux and, previously, Unix. Co-founder of the ELRepo Project.

Please consider making a donation to support the running of this site.

NewtronStar

  • Kitizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 4898
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #67 on: July 19, 2017, 01:00:29 AM »

Would like to see how the fibre optics are pushed through this wee duct in a real life experience and yes have watched B4RN videos on how they do it. how many strands of fibre can this green duct hold
Logged

burakkucat

  • Respected
  • Senior Kitizen
  • *
  • Posts: 38300
  • Over the Rainbow Bridge
    • The ELRepo Project
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #68 on: July 19, 2017, 05:35:47 PM »

Would like to see how the fibre optics are pushed through this wee duct in a real life experience and yes have watched B4RN videos on how they do it. how many strands of fibre can this green duct hold

The kitizen best "qualified" to answer your queries would be Walter. He has spent many hours in the company of the BT technicians (and the various contractors) whilst the FTTC cabinets were being connected in the Guildford and Surrey Hills areas.
Logged
:cat:  100% Linux and, previously, Unix. Co-founder of the ELRepo Project.

Please consider making a donation to support the running of this site.

niemand

  • Kitizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 1836
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #69 on: July 24, 2017, 11:45:07 PM »

There's really not much to see. They'll use a fibre blowing machine, nothing arcane about it.

Contrary to popular opinion it's all rather routine and simple. The tricky bit is getting the ducts into the ground, sending the fibre down them is trivial. Tons of videos of fibre being blown can be found on You Tube.

If you're curious about VM's network build more details here - https://keepup.virginmedia.com/Content/networkExpansion/doc/New_Build_Developers_Guide.pdf - going by that what goes to homes is a simple 6 mm diameter blown fibre micro tube carried inside a 54 mm duct connected to a termination box.
Logged

broadstairs

  • Kitizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 3697
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #70 on: July 25, 2017, 07:38:38 AM »

I guess one of the things which interests me is how they get the fibre across one's property and into the house. Our house for example has an all concrete/crazy paving front garden and no driveway, also ground level in the garden is some 3-4 feet above pavement level and and when I dig in the odd flower bed I find only about 18 inches of soil before hitting solid chalk. This also means that any road works within a hundred yards or so vibrate the downstairs floor (which is solid not suspended.

Stuart
Logged
ISP:Vodafone Router:Vodafone Wi-Fi hub FTTP

niemand

  • Kitizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 1836
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #71 on: July 25, 2017, 04:54:11 PM »

They'll run it along a wall or fence above ground most likely. They aren't going to be too desperate to shift a load of flags, dig underneath, then replace them. That makes the install a tad too expensive.
Logged

Ronski

  • Helpful
  • Kitizen
  • *
  • Posts: 4300
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #72 on: July 26, 2017, 10:19:55 AM »

That all sounds a bit shoddy, most of our estate has open plan front gardens,  although some have walls/fences. I suppose the majority have gardens so easy to dig a small channel to bury the cable in, but there will be many with obstacles.
Logged
Formerly restrained by ECI and ali,  now surfing along at 390/36  ;D

broadstairs

  • Kitizen
  • ****
  • Posts: 3697
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #73 on: July 26, 2017, 10:35:20 AM »

The problem here is that our house and garden ground level is so far above the footpath level and its not a slope but a vertical stone wall, also there is a concrete path all round the hose so there is no way to get anything underground easily. We have concrete steps up a narrow path into the garden but again no easy way under it and they would have to avoid the water and drainage service which run under the path/steps. So I guess it will be problematic and along the side wall is the best bet, but they still have to cross the side passage somehow.

Stuart
Logged
ISP:Vodafone Router:Vodafone Wi-Fi hub FTTP

Steven_W

  • Just arrived
  • *
  • Posts: 1
Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #74 on: July 26, 2017, 01:03:09 PM »

Hello everyone, first time poster but serial lurker!  I'm in Margate between WWX and the Hornby and have had terrible broadband all the time I've lived here.  The problem is aluminium cable in the road, I gave up months ago trying to get it swapped for copper!  I pay for 80/20 business fibre and get 11/0.5 at best!  Anyway, I have worked for Openreach both as an engineer and as an Operations Manager and also for a contracting company installing for Virgin Media (NOTE, this was just before they took over the network, in those days it was NTL).  I was running a gang of 3 guys getting cable in from the T outside and doing the internal fits.

I'm interested in what goes on with this, so thought I'd join the forum & see what's what.  Actually I wouldn't mind working for VM as a local manager seeing as they are expanding, anyone got any connections?  I tried the VM job site to no avail...

Anyway, regarding one of the earlier posts about cabling from the street into the premises, if it's anything at all like it used to be, it will be push, push, push by VM to get everything in as quick as possible.  When I was on the tools for them, we sometimes had up to 8 jobs a day and were threatened with the sack if they weren't all completed, so we used to join up with other crews and help each other out.

I really hope this ethos has changed as it just means shoddy workmanship.  We had a supervisor who would check the depth of buried cables (we used either armoured direct burial shotgun or put a length of copex in and ran the cable inside that) and if it was out of tolerance he would rip it out the ground and make us go back and do it again!  It was all performance driven, but this was in the late 90s/early 2000s (random fact, I was installing in a customers house and when we put the TV on it was the world trade towers attack and the first plane had hit, but second hadn't hit yet, we just stood there with jaws on the floor!)

In the end, we turned up for work one morning and the company went into liquidation and everyone lost their jobs.

So hopefully quality control is there and the schedule is within reason!
Logged
Pages: 1 ... 3 4 [5] 6 7 ... 30
 

anything