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Broken Hope

12-02-2025 22:28

Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by Paul (Post 36191178)

Maybe they are building in the City ?
I'm not based in the city, thats about 10 miles from me.

I’m on the Arnold border, near the City Hospital.

Paul	13-02-2025 01:23

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Yeah, I'm way further out, past the M1.

roughbeast

15-02-2025 12:29

Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by Broken Hope (Post 36191129)

Mine is with CityFibre, it used to be I could only get VM or really slow OpenReach, like 30Mb, but now I have CityFibre and FTTP from OpenReach available so VM was swiftly cancelled.

I'm from Nottingham too so surprised you can't get CityFibre, though I don't think they have finished building yet.

I'm lucky to be in Coventry where Cityfibre have installed in every street as well as Bedworth and Nuneaton. I use Fusion Fibre, riding on Cityfibre. For £34 I get a static IP, IPV6, pings below 6ms and a nice symmetrical connection averaging at 920Mb, peaking at 943Mb. Until VM offer a symmetrical service, they are going to be out of the running as more and more areas get access to CF. I guess they figure, correctly, that most customers don't need more than 50MB/100MB upstream, but they need to be more future orientated. The market will demand better upstreams as bandwidth hungry applications roll out.

Peter729

15-02-2025 12:38

Re: Left Virgin

Virgin missed the boat, they should have upgraded their network to fibre a long time go, now they have to upgrade in order to be competitive but they have already lost lots of customers.

SnoopZ

15-02-2025 13:31

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City fibre have just started putting the ducts in down my village high street so I'm guessing that'll be available to me eventually as I live off one of the roads coming off it?

Does anyone know a rough time scale between the start of ducting and customer availability based on your experience, I'm guessing atleast 12 months?

roughbeast

16-02-2025 13:43

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36191377)

Probably about right.

https://www.reddit.com/r/CityFibre/c...e_building_on/

Jimmy-J

16-02-2025 23:08

Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36191377)

From Cityfibre website...

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How will you keep me updated on when I can access the CityFibre network?

To find out when we’re building in your area, register with us. Once you’ve given us your details, we’ll be able to let you know when building is due to start, when it will be finished, and when you can connect via one of our broadband providers to make the most of our fastest network yet.

SnoopZ

17-02-2025 00:09

Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J (Post 36191445)

From Cityfibre website...

Thanks, already done that but I think I'm super early in looking into it, I was just looking at the colour of the ducts getting laid and with a bit of a Google and this site found out it's City Fibre, also had a response from Open Reach saying FTTP will be coming to my area.

I'm looking forward to ditching everything VM and have multiple choice on high speed internet in the future and hopefully cheaper.

Jimmy-J

17-02-2025 06:01

Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by SnoopZ (Post 36191447)

Thanks, already done that but I think I'm super early in looking into it, I was just looking at the colour of the ducts getting laid and with a bit of a Google and this site found out it's City Fibre, also had a response from Open Reach saying FTTP will be coming to my area.

I'm looking forward to ditching everything VM and have multiple choice on high speed internet in the future and hopefully cheaper.

Me too.

Broken Hope

17-02-2025 11:20

Re: Left Virgin

What's annoying is even when Virgin do roll out fibre, you're still stuck using a stupid superhub as they aren't using ONT's like pretty much every other fibre network.

Peter729

17-02-2025 11:33

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Originally Posted by Broken Hope (Post 36191465)

What's annoying is even when Virgin do roll out fibre, you're still stuck using a stupid superhub as they aren't using ONT's like pretty much every other fibre network.

You're also stuck with VM customer services:td:

RichardCoulter

17-02-2025 11:43

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Very true.

Broken Hope

17-02-2025 15:28

Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by Peter729 (Post 36191468)

You're also stuck with VM customer services:td:

True, the whole getting stuck at a 50Mb upload on my gigabit connection for a month and them taking a month to fix it was the final straw, much prefer my 2500Mb upload speed now.

Peter729

17-02-2025 16:13

Re: Left Virgin

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Originally Posted by Broken Hope (Post 36191474)

True, the whole getting stuck at a 50Mb upload on my gigabit connection for a month and them taking a month to fix it was the final straw, much prefer my 2500Mb upload speed now.

And having to suffer the drama and frustration of having to explain the same problem to multiple Customer Service people, numerous times. :mad::mad::mad:

Paul	17-02-2025 19:00

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Originally Posted by Broken Hope (Post 36191465)

when Virgin do roll out fibre, you're still stuck using a stupid superhub as they aren't using ONT's like pretty much every other fibre network.

Isnt this becasue the final bit to your house is not actually fibre, thats the case here, its coax.

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