Cables Across Front of House

[tunipcol1]

So Virgin are upgrading the cables.

At the minute there are no visible cables. They all run from a box beside the front door through a pipe/tube and into the house - underground I assume.

Virgin just upgraded the neighbours - the new wire runs up the wall over the front door, across the windows and they drilled a hole through the front of the house.

Surely they could use the existing route? It looks bloody ridiculous!

[Cardiffman282]

Ooooh. Is this an upgrade from the old Docsis to the new XGS-PON network? If so it's the first I have heard of at the individual customer end point. 

[nodrogd]

Customer wanted cable entry in a different place, or wanted to place the router in a different room & didn’t want internal cabling all round the walls?

[Roger_Gooner]

AFAIK, VM has failed to migrate a single customer to XGS-PON despite several areas being ready since about March 2023.

[Rosebush18]

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@nodrogd wrote:

Customer wanted cable entry in a different place, or wanted to place the router in a different room & didn’t want internal cabling all round the walls?

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Indeed, it could be any of those possibilities, although there have been reports on here of VM sometimes doing a mass cable replacement in a small area, we simply don’t have enough information to comment.