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Adam2610
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Cable our streets

Hi, I have been requesting Virgin to cable our streets for over 10 years now and I never hear from anyone.  I live in Denmead in Hampshire and 95% of the village has been cabled for Virgin services. ...
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    nodrogd
    11 months ago

    This is a typical situation with the legacy HFC cable system like you have in your area. This only allows for a finite number of connections in any network segment. Any roads that were Private, or otherwise had an embargo attached at build were excluded from the original cable builds in the 1990s. If some segments did have the capacity & it was economically viable (HFC build is very expensive), some of the network was expanded, but this no longer happens. A few areas with a large infill (several hundred houses) have been added by means of fibre RFoG overbuild, but the network alterations are such that smaller expansion is again not viable.

    The good news is that VM is moving away from traditional cable services in a rolling programme over the next 4 years, that will see HFC replaced with full fibre plus the use of third party ducting where suitable.

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nodrogd
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11 months ago

This is a typical situation with the legacy HFC cable system like you have in your area. This only allows for a finite number of connections in any network segment. Any roads that were Private, or otherwise had an embargo attached at build were excluded from the original cable builds in the 1990s. If some segments did have the capacity & it was economically viable (HFC build is very expensive), some of the network was expanded, but this no longer happens. A few areas with a large infill (several hundred houses) have been added by means of fibre RFoG overbuild, but the network alterations are such that smaller expansion is again not viable.

The good news is that VM is moving away from traditional cable services in a rolling programme over the next 4 years, that will see HFC replaced with full fibre plus the use of third party ducting where suitable.

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Adam2610
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11 months ago

Thanks for the reply.  Fingers crossed for something to happen in the next 4 years then although my son who enjoys gaming will have probably moved out by then and we will probably find that 15mbps is enough for my wife and I to stream tv without it buffering 🤣

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    nodrogd
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    11 months ago
    Adam2610 wrote:

    Thanks for the reply.  Fingers crossed for something to happen in the next 4 years then although my son who enjoys gaming will have probably moved out by then and we will probably find that 15mbps is enough for my wife and I to stream tv without it buffering 🤣

    Might be a good thing anyway. DOCSIS Cable Broadband is susceptible to high latency issues, which is as much of a problem for gaming as slow speeds are.