XGS-PON

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Is the rollout of 2 GPS happening?
Hey everyone, I've been on a 1Gbps connection with Virgin Media for a while now, and I'm curious if 2Gbps speeds will be available (or are currently rolling out) in Windsor and Maidenhead. I know that Virgin Media has been trialing multi-gigabit speeds in some areas, but I haven't seen much information regarding our region. Additionally, does anyone know if XGS-PON is being deployed here? I would love to find out if Virgin Media is upgrading the network to support even faster speeds. If you have any insights—whether from personal experience, Virgin Media announcements, or updates on network upgrades—please share!
sl1m_tc
4 months ago Place Networking and WiFi
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New Customer Why did I bother (Lies & False Promises)
Hello all, I am a new customer of Virgin Media. Below is a Timeline of events. (AUG 24) NexFibre start digging the street & road work & completes the work in around 3 weeks. (DEC 24) On the 17th December I get emails & texts saying VM is live so I check & sure enough it is. After checking packages, I go for a volt package with £6.00 month upload speed boost 1gb DL & UP. That morning, I get a call from a sales guy so he turned up later than agreed. I show him what package I would like which all goes through fine with January 8th the agreed install date. But it all went wrong from there, I noticed he put it though on a one touch switch despite me asking him not to as I am disabled so can’t really get out much so I use the internet for everything, I want to cancel my current ISP on my own once the services have gone live & I see they are working right , plus I didn’t want to be without internet as I had already seen posts on the forum from others with no internet at all. 10 minutes after he leaves, I get Emails & texts also a phone call from my current ISP, you’re leaving bla bla I explain the situation they say fine. So, I call him he doesn’t really care and blows it off with oh its fine you won’t be without internet, I said that’s not the point you were told not to do it in the first place. (Same Day DEC 17) I call virgin speak to a fantastic lady who understands. Everything straight away. She goes and speaks to her boss Comes back & cancels the entire account and sets up anew with all the offers and things from the old one, She then tells me oh I am not sure why but I can get it installed earlier for you, Fantastic or so I thought. All done agreed install date 30th (Dec 24) I get an email asking me to tell them about the property I can’t open the link on my pc or phone. I call them ok no problem we do get that sometimes don’t worry about it. 02 sim card arrives I sorted out everything with 02 no issues there. (around 2 days before install date) I get the dreaded email and text Installation has been delayed till 14th of January 25. I call them up as I couldn’t do the 14th. No problem tell us what date you need we will change it for you. 22 January agreed. (present day 18/01/2025) After loads of phone calls to the pre install team. I have given up as I’ve been told all sorts of things from, we need local authority permission, to we have got everything we need everything is in hand promised calls back which never happened, £80 has been put on my account but apparently that’s all I’m intitled to even though I was told this morning 18/01/2025 around 8am it was definitely going to be done today (pre install) & I was owed at least £125. I will be fighting for every penny. As of posting this 5:30pm on 18/01/2025 Pre-Install work has still not been done. I am not holding my breath to be installed & connected on 22/01/25 at all but I guess I am at the mercy of virgin till openreach decide to install FTTP in my street. Virgin must have so much money they can afford to make new customers angry; it seems to me they don’t care who about any of there customers new or existing. I won’t cancel anything as I know about Ofcom’s auto compensation scheme But one way or another I want service ASAP that’s what we agreed and that’s what I’m paying for. Hopefully a forum staff member can do some chasing or something because I think I would have better look at winning the jackpot on lottery. Kind Regards excalibur25
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excalibur25
5 months ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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xgs-pon with own router...
Well... Wish I was advised of this during signup. Now cancelled BT which I was happily using (albeit without symmetrical 1Gbps upload), constant 0-8ms ping on games such as Fortnite or to Cloudflare DNS/Adguard DNS and a stable speed over to the "upgrade"..... Can't use my own router reliably, double-NAT, no modem mode (could use PPPoE auth with BT and Sky[Sky needs DHCP Option 61 enabled]), consistent 5-8% packet loss to GeforceNOW (plus the extra 6-10ms latency...), fluctuating download/upload speeds mainly affecting the upload (burst: 700Mbps then drops steadily until the end of the test sometimes as low as 300Mbps). BT had a speed guarantee of 700Mbps, what is it here? Is there any chance of using my own router without their router also being in "router" mode? I've tried everything I can think of to try and get it working and now I refuse to spend anymore time on it when the whole network was fine prior to moving to Virgin xgs-pon. The whole product seems rushed through the door so as to not lose out with new customer take up in new areas... When is this going to change? If it isn't in the next month can I still cancel or what because this is the worst FTTP implementation I've used....?
Michael09
8 months ago Place Networking and WiFi
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New install XGS-PON not working
Hello, new here, I ordered Virgin FTTP on the 23rd of May, Virgin were very quick to to the external work, it happened 2 days later. Had the internal work done on the 1st of June. The problem is I'm not yet connected to the internet, my engineer said its your fault as the line is perfect, the problem is at your end. But everytime i get my sister to phone (I am deaf, I cannot hear the telephone) they keep insisting that the internal work hasnt been done yet. I tried online chat help, they told me to phone the 0345 454 1111 number but they keep trying to get an engineer round as they think the internal work hasnt been done. Let me reiterate that ALL THE WORK has been done. My router CAN SEE the internet, its that under general configuration where it says "network access" It says NOT ALLOWED. The light on my 5x hub is yellow/orange Please help me here, I am deaf and cannot use the telephone, being ran around in circles by the staff on the helpline just repeating a script and not actually helping, just want my line working please. As I say, all installed I have a 5x hub on the GPON or XGS-PON. Not allowed access despite my router saying "connected" Please help me!
CrazyInWeston
12 months ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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PON ID Issue
I have had visits from four separate engineers to resolve this issue with my 5x Hub and each time they say that my connection is fine, but my account has not been built correctly and I’m missing a PON ID. They have advised that I need the desktop team to rebuild my account to fix this, but when I call the +44 345 454 1111 number, the team try to arrange another engineer visit. It has now been over three months since the initial installation and I have had no internet, but the account is ‘active’ so I’m being charged. I submitted a complaint a month ago and have heard nothing back. Each of the engineers have also promised to liaise with their managers on the fix but I still have not had this resolved. I feel like I am going crazy! Has anyone had a successful fix or is there no hope and time to cancel and find another provider?
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913P
2 years ago Place Networking and WiFi
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XGS-PON installation experiences
Hi all, Hoping someone can offer some information on their experience with XGS-PON installation. VM have just rolled out the new infrastructure over telegraph poles in my relatives area and I want to know what the installation process is like. If anyone has pictures of the wiring/terminals used that be extremely helpful as well. I assume that no digging is involed and it would be installed just like existing copper infra - cable to a high point on the building, route inside and then terminate in a wall mouted fibre box?
jacob9hawkes
2 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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XGS-PON via OFNL
We have been using VM Broadband through OFNL fibre since 2022, at that time, XGS-PON was still under trial and the service was installed as a DOCSIS one. The configuration is therefore a rather clumsily one, with fibre to a fibre-to-coax converter, then coax cable to my Hub 3, such configuration unavoidably cause increase in latency. Not to mention Hub 3 is never a really reliable router. As VM is progressively rolling out XGS-PON now, do you have any plan to convert these installations to XGS-PON? so as to omit the fibre-to-coax converter and directly connect our fibre to a Hub 5x?
Yat
2 years ago Place QuickStart, set up and connections
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Hub 5x using own router
Morning everyone. I’m trying to connect my Asus TUF-AX6000 router to my Hub 5x and i’m getting double NAT issues. Now i know that modem mode isn’t available yet but i’m wondering what is the best work around for the time being. Would anybody with better networking skills than myself be able to shine any light? Many Thanks.
Guinness2023
2 years ago Place Networking and WiFi
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