Broadband services in Haywards Heath - West Sussex (RH16)

Hi there, I can certainly help you with this, I will send you a private message (purple envelope top right corner) where I can discuss it further with you.

Thanks Joe 

Hello,

Virgin laid down the fibre optics on my road in March of this year, and we got some info through the door about it at a later date. I signed up to be notified and in August I got an email from Virgin saying, "Virgin Media is nearly ready! In a few weeks time, you'll be able to get your hands on lightning fast broadband and amazing TV."

12 weeks later, there's still no availability. The website simply says we are coming to your area, sign up to be notified when it's ready.

Does anyone know how much longer I'll be waiting?

Hi all.

Thought maybe enough time has passed that I can request another check to see if there's any new news?

I saw a guy with a high-vis working away in one of the new Virgin cabinets on my road a few days ago which made me think maybe things are almost ready.

Thanks

@Zoie_P and Kath_F,

Any chance of an update please? It's been a couple of months since the last time. Website still says services are nearly ready and will be in your area soon (I do wonder what Virgin's definitions of "nearly" and "soon" are) but it's been saying that for about 10 months now. I understand that the availablity checker probably only has 3 possible answers, yes, no and coming soon, and it isn't smart enough to know exact details, but it's quite frustrating to keep checking and for nothing to change.

Check your postcodes people! RH16 is going live!

I bought a 2.5 gigabit network card for my PC and it increased the speed by about 20% over the motherboard's gigabit port, but still only getting about 35% (40MB/s) of the router speed. Some of the other hardware must be the bottleneck as I did some tests on my home server which is much newer hardware and I'm getting 110MB/s sustained download to an NVME SSD after a bit of tweaking so I'm pretty happy. Even that is still only about 75% of the speed to the router but I am going through a network switch which may be caushing a slight slow down and also using this motherboard's gigabit port which could be fully saturated at 880Mbps. All new cat6 cabling.

So around 3 months ago, a contractor installed (using BT ducting) Fibre cable for VM02, I wonder when there will be a go live date, the Liason officer said "December 2023" however with that just around the corner, I am not hopeful it will be enabled before the end of the year.