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Originally Posted by Turkey Machine
All the new modems issued by Virgin on all their tariffs are at least DOCSIS 2.0 capable. Why the hell haven't they enabled them like that? Moreover, yes they're DOCSIS 1.0/1.1 backwards-compatible, but even a small increment to DOCSIS 1.1 would yield a 20% increase in available bandwidth according to that graph! How trivial is it to implement such a thing on Virgin's end? If a Virgin employee can answer me that question directly, I'll be very happy to know.
I hate the fact they tout it as "the mother of all broadband", when other ADSL providers spank them in* the download speed stakes, reliability, and upload speed stakes.
*for some customers.
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There is currently an issue with some of the VM Set Top Boxes that is stopping them operating D2.0, that will be fixed over the next few weeks. The other reason is that QAM32 or QAM64 require vastly 'cleaner networks' than VM are currently able to support.. As is being discussed here they are struggling to support QAM16 in some areas.