Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
 

Sorry bit confused, but are Virgin not already installing docsis 3 capable modems..

I will admit this comes from one of the few customers who pays for a 20mb line and gets it...

but i ave just recently moved and my service with it... i guessed the modems now support docsis 3...?

Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
 

Nope. All the current modems Virgin suppy are a maximum of DOCSIS 2 only

The DOCSIS 3 version will only be issued to 50Mb customers to start with

If you are a 20Mb/XL customer and upgrade to 50Mb you would get a new modem as part of the upgrade.

I am assuming the DOCSIS 3 modems are backwards compatible, so you then wouldn't need yet another new modem if you went back to 20Mb or below

Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
 

A DOCSIS 3 modem is capable of running on a DOCSIS 1 / 2 network too so if you downgraded you could keep the exsisting modem.

Impz

Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
 

Of course. Which is probably what'll happen imo.

Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
 

Hows about, when they send out the new modems, they include packaging to send back the old modems, If I upgrade It'd mean that I have 2 unused modems sat in my loft that I don't want to bin because they don't belong to me.

(mind you, where I used to work I had a cupboard full of the bloody things that have presumably ended up in a landfill).

Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
 

They already do that if they swap the modem for speed issues.

Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
 

They will never ask for those modems back as they will be to old to be re-used, if you ever go to your local tip you can put them in the recycling skip for electronic devices.

Or you could just bin them.