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popper · 17-09-2008, 19:51

you miss the point D.casey, when a customer has no other option but to lie to get the Virgin Media cable service provider to actually get them to provide a second Broadband modem(or a third, the reasonable limit the spec can provide on one single split cable to the green box in the street) service the customer ACTUALLY WANTS TO PAY THEM FOR, theres something VERY WRONG in the executive office and middle managements corporate thinking.

theres a perfectly good cable modem built into every single STB you use thats already powered and pluged into the UBRs right now.

that STB CM can provide 4 Mbit/sD 512k+U and people in the exC&W area's are infact still using this exact setup in some cases, so its proven to work, you just send it the existing activation config already on the system.

HOWEVER VM have set a policy that you must now deactivate this option and move over to a self contained stand alone CM, and power that as a seperate bit of kit, and YOU CANT HAVE that active and a separate stand alone CM active at the same time on the same account due to this official Virgin Media policy, madness....

all that clear extra profit just thrown away for no good reason.

17-09-2008, 19:51	#5
popper Inactive Join Date: Jan 2006 Posts: 3,270	Re: 2 lines not possible !! you miss the point D.casey, when a customer has no other option but to lie to get the Virgin Media cable service provider to actually get them to provide a second Broadband modem(or a third, the reasonable limit the spec can provide on one single split cable to the green box in the street) service the customer ACTUALLY WANTS TO PAY THEM FOR, theres something VERY WRONG in the executive office and middle managements corporate thinking. theres a perfectly good cable modem built into every single STB you use thats already powered and pluged into the UBRs right now. that STB CM can provide 4 Mbit/sD 512k+U and people in the exC&W area's are infact still using this exact setup in some cases, so its proven to work, you just send it the existing activation config already on the system. HOWEVER VM have set a policy that you must now deactivate this option and move over to a self contained stand alone CM, and power that as a seperate bit of kit, and YOU CANT HAVE that active and a separate stand alone CM active at the same time on the same account due to this official Virgin Media policy, madness.... all that clear extra profit just thrown away for no good reason.