I recently had virgin “lightning fast” cables installed in my street and surrounding streets in the area, I’m just wondering if anyone knows the wait time for when I can switch over to Virgin broadband.
currently stuck using openreach ISPs and not getting good enough speeds in my household.
That’s very unusual as Openreach based ISP’s are usually very good?
Below is a speed test, do share a screen shot the results from
your laptop / PC cable connected to the BT / Openreach kit.
If you are using Wi-Fi ... please do say as that can be a killer
of available speed especially if the laptop has a 2.4GHz only adaptor.
https://interprefy.speedtestcustom.com/
Just did a very quick test on that site over Wifi on Openreach 500/70 connection.
Ping 25ms Jitter 0ms Download 480.3 Mbps Upload 72.2 Mbps
Same test on my 500/70 Openreach connection giving
ping 8mS, jitter 1mS consistently on wifi. That's about 3m and one brick wall from nearest AP.
Apropos to nothing very much in particular I tried it on my VM 250/25 and got 215/26 ping 18 and jitter 2 in modem mode a room away.
Hi @john_GS I have had a very unhelpful conversation on line with someone asking exactly the same thing. A number of properties in the area already look as if they can access VM and the work has been carried out in the whole town.
I am with BT and out of contract for 2 months now and looking at a better deal, however I am the stage now to reduce money by committing to a provider and if I can't understand the timescales I am going to have to commit to someone else which will be me contracted for the next 2 years
Any chance you might be able to assist with trying to get a go live date
Thanks in advance
Forum TeamThanks for your post PaulB74, and a very warm welcome to you!
Nice to hear you're keen on joining our network!
Just to confirm, have you attempted to look on our Postcode Checker to see if we're currently advising that your property is deemed to be active?
Thanks
David_Bn
