How do you know if you're in a FTTP area?

[Keezza]

Hi,

New customer here. waiting for activation on my installation date. How do you know if you're in a FTTP area? 

Virgin 'Cable My Street' came almost 7-8 years ago....

Cheers

[Anonymous]

FTTP is an openreach term (bt, ee, sky etc)

Virgin use their own proprietary cable to send the data to our homes, and I'm pretty sure it aint fibre due to the poor upload speed they provide.

Almost all eligible postcodes can't get upto 500mb and most again can make use of their gig1.

To be perfectly honest, everyone can make do with 50mb any faster is just spiel 

[Keezza]

Cool but from my understanding Virgin have types of install 1 of which brings the fibre to the premises and then coax to the router 

[carl_pearce]

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@Keezza wrote:

Cool but from my understanding Virgin have types of install 1 of which brings the fibre to the premises and then coax to the router 

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VM don't provide that information unfortunately.

[That_E90_Guy]

It doesnt matter if you are on virgins version of FTTP or the HFC coax network, performence is the same on both, ie, poor.

[nodrogd · Accepted solution]

If you are in an HFC area the termination boxes will be standard omni-boxes

In fibre areas, the fibre terminates at the front wall to coax inside with a powered unit, hence the box on the wall is considerably bigger.

Left HFC. Right RFoG.