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davrob
Up to speed
2 years ago
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Virginmedia Fibre is it fibre?

I have the offer of a Full Fibre (FTTP) at a very reasonable quotation far better than VM. I consulted VM to ask when are they going to do FTTP in my area but they replied that is already FTTP but I ...
  • carl_pearce's avatar
    carl_pearce
    2 years ago

    There are three 'types':

    • HFC - Coax from cabinet to your home.
    • RFoG - Fibre to the wall box on the outside of your home converted to coax between the wall box and HUB.
    • XGS-PON - Full fat FTTP where a HUB 5x is used that can accept a fibre connection directly.

    All are more than capable of just over 1.1Gbps on the Gig1 service (And 2.2Gbps in the future), however, the main difference is latency.

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carl_pearce
Superstar
2 years ago

There are three 'types':

  • HFC - Coax from cabinet to your home.
  • RFoG - Fibre to the wall box on the outside of your home converted to coax between the wall box and HUB.
  • XGS-PON - Full fat FTTP where a HUB 5x is used that can accept a fibre connection directly.

All are more than capable of just over 1.1Gbps on the Gig1 service (And 2.2Gbps in the future), however, the main difference is latency.

  • Stephen93's avatar
    Stephen93
    Superfast
    2 years ago

    I’m have XGS-PON on the gig1 plan, the hub 5x runs at 1132mps but when testing speed on my iPad Pro I get sometimes 910mps & at most 810 on iPhone 15 Pro Max & this is with both next to the router, should I be getting 1 gig on WiFi?

    • robbiekhan's avatar
      robbiekhan
      Up to speed
      2 years ago

      No. to get the full fat speeds you need to be using wired. Wireless has overheads involved so will never reach maximum speeds generally. Plus no wireless device like those mentioned will ever need or benefit from such speeds anyway.

      • Stephen93's avatar
        Stephen93
        Superfast
        2 years ago

        Thanks, but at my mother-in-law she has Vodafone, broadband speed advertised at 200mps, when I test it on my iPhone I get 200mps, her router is behind a curtain about 6’ away must be a better router

    • carl_pearce's avatar
      carl_pearce
      Superstar
      2 years ago

      Too many variables with wireless so no, you cannot always expect full speed to one device.