on 26-06-2022 12:43
Hello bit of a newbie in here and just after some clarification, I'm moving to a new home around the end of August and noticed Virgin have run cable along the street of our new home the little covering on the pavement has a fancy looking Virgin media logo on it and was wondering if it would be true fibre right to my wall if I was to become a member and sign up,I had virgin broadband a long time ago but I know that was just Coax the whole way I had lots of disconnections and down time back then and would be hoping the new fibre type would be far more reliable
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on 26-06-2022 17:06
Hi @BenTarn
You could also test the waters by taking out a rolling 30 day contract on either M100, M200 or M350 (albeit it costs a little extra) and if happy then take out a full contract.
https://www.virginmedia.com/broadband/rolling-contract
on 26-06-2022 15:41
Newer installs in some areas are fibre to the house wall, but still use co-ax internally. Nothing wrong with co-ax from the street cabinet, btw. I had this for many, many years and have no problems.
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on 26-06-2022 15:41
You are unlikely to notice any difference between the legacy Hybrid Fibre/Coaxial network services & RFoG Fibre-to-Home. If Virgin was only recently installed it will be fibre, otherwise it will be legacy HFC. Even with the new fibre installs the backend CMTS services & the provided equipment remain the same. Everything converts to coax via a powered ONT on your front wall.
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on 26-06-2022 16:25
When the service wasn't down or dropping to around 10mb on an evening with major packetloss it was great especially when I did a bit of gaming, I think i was in a very over subscribed area at the time, reliability and consistency is all I want really especially when getting myself into a 18 month contract
Thanks for the reply
on 26-06-2022 16:54
on 26-06-2022 17:06
Hi @BenTarn
You could also test the waters by taking out a rolling 30 day contract on either M100, M200 or M350 (albeit it costs a little extra) and if happy then take out a full contract.
https://www.virginmedia.com/broadband/rolling-contract
on 26-06-2022 18:49
I didn't realise such contracts were available thanks for the heads up mate
Kind regards