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Author Topic: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?  (Read 113763 times)

Weaver

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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #375 on: May 31, 2018, 03:56:44 PM »

Does VM do FTTP as well as cable now?
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #376 on: May 31, 2018, 04:43:47 PM »

Does VM do FTTP as well as cable now?

In certain area's they are doing full FTTP installs, but they're not advertised as such. They're still advertised as their same tiers.
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #377 on: June 01, 2018, 01:07:33 AM »

Does VM do FTTP as well as cable now?

New deployment areas tend to be full FTTP.
The fibre is converted to coaxial inside the customers property. Their modems and TV boxes still use exclusively coaxial.
I believe they still use DOCSIS 3.0?

They use RFOG (radio frequency over glass) to carry the DOCSIS signal over the fibre.
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #378 on: June 01, 2018, 02:01:21 AM »

New deployment areas tend to be full FTTP.
The fibre is converted to coaxial inside the customers property. Their modems and TV boxes still use exclusively coaxial.
I believe they still use DOCSIS 3.0?

They use RFOG (radio frequency over glass) to carry the DOCSIS signal over the fibre.

So even with an actual fibre into your house it still uses the same "signal to everyone" setup that normal cable modems use?

Edit: Realise this is kind of a stupid question, its been a long time since I lived somewhere with VM but I remember provisioning/contention being pretty abysmal, with the more houses connected to your streets node causing worse and worse peak time slowdowns, I attributed at least some of this to the way DOCSIS worked with VM, sending the same signal to every house and having actual streams separated by TDMA/CDMA, so more houses = worse performance, not like other topologies with fixed contention ratios. Is this still the case even with their FTTP?
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #379 on: June 01, 2018, 02:40:26 AM »

Unhelpful comment alert: The RFoG docs I read were just confined to the (analog) physical layer basically the simplest optical-to-electrical transceiver/media converter, assuming I read it right. It was all about saving money and getting backwards compatibility at all costs because they don't have to swap out so much kit, nor have two lots of separate systems in some parts of the setup. Seeing that costs (which does include reliability) not performance are where it is aimed, then I wouldn't be too surprised if someone told me they were still using the same horrid broadcast system. But I have no idea, haven't found anything in my reading yet. Performance should be really good though because if the low SNR.
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #380 on: June 01, 2018, 09:34:52 AM »

The vast majority of FTTP uses a horrid broadcast system?
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #381 on: June 01, 2018, 10:14:43 AM »

@Johnson VM used to have loads of congestion issues, but thanks to the new average peak time speed advertising and the very bad press they got on BBC Watchdog last year most areas have been vastly improved. I've certainly had no issues yet  :fingers:
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #382 on: June 01, 2018, 11:33:20 AM »

Been on VM for a month and rock solid so far.
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #383 on: June 01, 2018, 01:57:53 PM »

From my experience, it's very area-dependant with regards to their capacity issues. I know where I live that I can get VM up to 350, but I just couldn't put myself through it again (I’ve been there before). I know people who are on my street and on the 350 package, they have a visit once a month from VM to attach new attenuators to their coax and they just cannot get anywhere near 100mb at peak. They're fully aware that our area is over congested and poor quality - it's based on the ex NTL/Videotron and hasn't been touched since those days, so seriously lacking investment.

So if you're lucky enough to be in a newish build area then you'll probably get good results. Not sure I'll be going near them for the time being though!
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #384 on: June 01, 2018, 05:47:00 PM »

. . . The fibre is converted to coaxial inside the customers property. . . .

If you check the images that Ronski has provided (Pic4.jpg here), you'll see that the media converter (fibre <---> co-axial) is located outside the premises.  ;)
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #385 on: June 04, 2018, 04:38:37 PM »

I noticed there is an update on this story: https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2018/02/quick-update-virgin-media-hub-3-router-latency-fix.html

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UPDATE 4th June 2018

Some of you have been asking for an update. So far the new firmware (e.g. v9.1.116.603 and .608) is supposed to have been deployed to both trial users and owners of the Hub 3.0 on Virgin Media’s top broadband tier (currently 350Mbps or 300Mbps before that), although Hub 3.0 owners on slower tiers have been left to wait.

A spokesperson told ISPreview.co.uk, “Further firmware updates are being worked on and we’re hoping to roll these out as soon as possible (testing permitted).” Sadly they couldn’t give a clearer indication than that.

As anyone used the firmware v9.1.116.603 or v9.1.116.608?

Did you find any improvement with the Hub 3?
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #386 on: June 04, 2018, 10:19:49 PM »

Certainly seems to have fixed mine.



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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #387 on: June 17, 2018, 10:35:38 AM »

Still no sign on roadsworks.org for Crow Hill being done. Did see  a sign yesterday which said coming soon which was just above Claire Court on the corner of Linden Avenue, but dont know if it is relevant or just not been collected. VM are ripping up Linden Avenue at the moment but until Crow Hill is done there will be no way to connect it as both ends are in Crow Hill.

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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #388 on: June 17, 2018, 11:16:36 AM »

Crow Hill is still coming.
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Re: Virgin Media coming to Thanet?
« Reply #389 on: June 17, 2018, 11:21:05 AM »

Crow Hill is still coming.

I'm sure it is, just interested as to when we are being dug up  ;)

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