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virgin media are replacing all the green boxes in my area
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I am wondering way virgin media are replacing all the green boxes in my area in the past 2 months ??? thay look like this one:Attachment 22962 Uddingston Thank . |
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Every single cabinet in the country has either been refurbished or replaced and we are talking about over 11000.
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Can't remember mine being refurbished or replaced, in fact half of them have been cleared out and empty for about 6 months i have noticed.
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Wish they would come & replace ours , it is full of rust & holes at the bottom.
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Doors held together with sticky tape. Doors bent and hanging off. Some others with no doors at all. They can start here any time they like !
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sooner this is completed the better.
@ Digital Fanatic - when did the upgrades begin so we know a rough completion date? |
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does the mean we are getting the faster upload soon ???
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Actually that it makes sense probably excludes it, never mind :p: |
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sorry what is a CMTS level. ??
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so this is all for capacity to the network for future expansion and new services. not for the faster upload ?
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Uddingston uddi Feb-12
Upstream Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power Locked TDMA 1 10240 Kbits/sec 25800000 Hz 41.5 dBmV Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV Unlocked Unknown 0 0 Ksym/sec 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/...e_13_09_11.pdf ---------- Post added at 19:19 ---------- Previous post was at 19:18 ---------- Not got it yet http://shop.virginmedia.com/content/...e_13_09_11.pdf |
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the schedule isnt always right |
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no i am on 50mb http://speedtest.net/result/1691425691.png
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post your config tomorrow mornign i think you might have bene traffic managed then as yoru upload i about 2.6mb
edit:in fact ingore me i am iddiot im ready the frequency can you takea screen shot of that page please nad pos thte image here edit2:acutally never midn that go to operation config and copy and paste everything on that page ill tell you if your upgraded |
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go to operation config and post that
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apogolise i am wrong yoru not ugpraded yet, which is strange since uddingston need done before castelcary, try rebooting the modem and check again
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no stll the same
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no but Uddingston has not had the upload speed improvement yet
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Incidentally we still have the old flimsy grey Andover Cablevision cabinets installed over 20 years ago!!! |
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hope so can't wait for the new upload :)
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EDIT: of course, non upgraded upstream area, doh! |
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Upstream Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power Locked TDMA 3 10240 Kbits/sec 25800000 Hz 33.5 dBmV I prefer to think of them less as 'non-upgraded' and more as 'non-standard'. It's not an upgrade when it's the standard performance for the service. |
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It looks like one - and pretty well dog-peed on too.. |
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yes the box says CATV on it. I will post the new Cabinet picture tomorrow ;)
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(From VM's community forum announcement on the upgrade) "Why do I have to wait for my Speed Boost? Over the next 18 months we're going to be upgrading over four million customers. Doubling everyone’s speed is a pretty big job so it can’t happen overnight. Our engineers will be working as fast as they can to upgrade 38,000 street cabinets and 186,000km of cable (enough to go around the equator four times).... " |
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dressed up in tinsel. anyone got a pic of the new cabs? have they just been upgraded inside and painted or have they got new shells too?
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Nothing sinister about that and it goes hand in hand with the refurbishment of street cabinets, remembering that 5 out of 6 (circa) are cable not fibre. There will obviously be replacement of tired lasers (curing SNR issues) and additional fibre added where necessary for more channel capacity. It's a matter of survival IMO for VM ( a bit dramatically put) because BT Infinity will be present at more than 75% of the UK. |
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hi what does it mean if they have spayed my cab gray, mind you the paint is peeling off already did it just before xmas
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from what I've seen so far cab upgrades have started way up north so is this going to gradually come southbound or is it picked mains then to areas ?
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I'd say the 100 meg roll-out plan is an indicator of when the street cab crew are coming.
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this is all very delightful, but ARE THEY GOING TO UPGRADE THEIR GODDAMN OVERCROWDED CMTS's, so that they can deliver a service that is fit for purpose at the times of day when people are actually able to use them??
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100s available Sephiroth, no sign of the cabs though. may be in a few months when I get a doubling (ETA April-June) ?
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Yip same here...had 100Mb since last October..but no new cabs installed or overhauled.. i can see the one i am connected too out my front window.it is about 20m away as the seagull flies :erm::erm: |
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is there downtime involved in this?
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The average downtime is around 4 hours but it can be offline from 8am to 6pm.
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They don't have to be overhauled if they're performing OK
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I'm guessing customers get warned before hand ?
is the cab upgrades part of this speed upgrade or separate, can it function properly without the cabs being upgrades or will each area get upgraded cabs before the speed goes through? |
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The cabs (apart from optical nodes) house amplifiers. These amplifiers are hooked up to the 48 or 16 (according to cab size) local users and the next cab further away from the optical node. Some of these amps are 15 or more years old and are thus potentially phutted.
The cabhave to be done in daylight and I've never seen VM give a warning. The optical nodes may need more node devices fitted, more fibre pulled and tired lasers renewed. They deduce this from the SNR stats they collect. The CMTSs at the VM end need the new higher capacity line cards and in some areas, new CMTSs have to be added to handle load. Can 100 meg function without the cab upgrade? Badly, IMO, where a cab upgrade is needed. But prolly the optical node is more critical to 100 meg than the coax street cab. Hope that explains more. Igni can amplify or correct anything I'bve not got right. |
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Some are even being moved if required. |
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sharing is caring... after all they're proud of their work.. please share :angel: unless theres a security threat then don't bother... I'll get my shotgun
thanks for that Sephiroth :D |
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why is my upload so slow http://speedtest.net/result/1703390035.png i should be getting 1.75mb
Downstream Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power SNR Docsis/EuroDocsis locked Locked QAM256 49 55616000 Kbits/sec 299000000 Hz 3.9 dBmV 40.4 dB Hybrid Locked QAM256 48 55616000 Kbits/sec 291000000 Hz 3.8 dBmV 39.7 dB Hybrid Locked QAM256 50 55616000 Kbits/sec 307000000 Hz 3.6 dBmV 39.9 dB Hybrid Locked QAM256 51 55616000 Kbits/sec 315000000 Hz 2.9 dBmV 39.2 dB Hybrid Upstream Channels Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Max Raw Bit Rate Frequency Power Locked TDMA 1 10240 Kbits/sec 25800000 Hz 41.5 dBmV |
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Yeah I'll take that with a pinch of salt, thanks. Especially since everything interesting or useful is never dissemminated, I'd rather take Seph's word over someone who's demonstrated complete incompetance at understanding technological concepts. |
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i have called technical support but they say they don't give support for upload ???
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It's funny how you go from saying I'm wrong, and I should listen to the experts like Seph, then say Seph's wrong and I'm a stalker for agreeing. Bigot. |
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how is the Uddingston upgrades coming along
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Posters are stepping over the line from disagreement to abuse - stop now, or have your posts removed and infractions issued.
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Nobody's disagreeing that cabinets that need work done will get work done. On the other hand you seem to be the only one who thinks VM are in a position where they can waste money getting people to go round and dust off some cables in thousands of cabinets that are working perfectly fine just because there's pictures of shiny things on the intranet. ---------- Post added at 22:09 ---------- Previous post was at 22:09 ---------- Quote:
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I was being general, not specific
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The facts still stand that work is being done on every single one of the 11000+ cabinets in the country regardless of anyone thinking the is nothing wrong with their particular one because their connection is running fine. [mod edit: off topic] |
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If anyone has an issue with another member then you have three choices. 1# Report the members posts if they are breaking our T&Cs 2# Put the person on ignore 3# Leave the thread Continuing the argument abusively within a post (whether you include technical information or not) will never be acceptable especially after a warning. Any more off topic content will invite infractions as there have been enough warnings in this and another thread already. |
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lol you could very well be right there....it's not as if i sit and look out my window and stare @ the cab 247 :p::p: what i really meant to say was i have had no downtime and tbh my cab is quite an old looking cab and is rusty in parts.. :erm::erm: and i would have thought it would be repaired or replaced @ some point....but it aint happened yet :cool: |
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Even though my name's been mentioned in all the foregoing frolick, I've kept away, obviously.
I do look to the likes of Masque to provide solid framework information, such as the fact that ALL of the VM street cabinets are having remedial work performed. The difference between a VM employee and myself is that I can speculate on the detail of the type of work that might be carried out according to need at each cabinet, including the optical node. It is rare for VM or its employees on the forum to go into such detail for reasons of perceived sensitivity. I may well be picked up on the use of the word "speculate", for that is all that an outsider can do piecing together his/her technical knowledge of the subject. But I think the mix of insider and technically competent outsider works well in the forums, especially the VM Community Forum where I have some technical material stickied. |
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still awaiting its upgrade. |
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via the speed upgrade site...
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can you post pictures on here Masque?
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You may get an idea of what is being done from this Google link |
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could you ask if you could post a few pics please :angel:
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today virgin media van turned up and ripped one of the green-boxs out at the end of my street ??
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The cabinet replacement isn't related to the upstream uplift directly. You aren't going to be upgraded the moment the cabinets are worked on.
While I don't go through a cabinet, it's all in underground pits, they did the work on my area on 23rd August and I still don't have the upgrade. |
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are you in Uddingston ??
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ive not heard/read of many posts stating cabs have been worked on. is this plan still active and is the delay to various areas due to upgrades needed to a vast amount of cabinets?
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http://www.broadband-finder.co.uk/bl...et-cabinet.jpg
Seriously? I'll take a snap of our cab when the sun comes up. |
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whats the thing wrapped in duct tape?
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You got a hiigher res of that you could dropbox or email me please? |
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must get my eyes tested :p: |
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actually, looking at it, it looks more like static proof wrapping than duct tape
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just upload it and post the link here
im sure others (myself included) would like to see it |
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I'm sure Virgin Media wouldn't like you to.
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you posted the original image LOL
anyway theres only a handful of members on this forum who listen to anything VM says |
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