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Originally Posted by Gavin78
So will we have access to the router side of this wifi hotspot once it's enabled so we can see what is happening
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No. For a plethora of reasons. Just no.
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Originally Posted by Gavin78
and how will they be able to split the bandwidth from the same cable coming into the house?
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Unlike BT/ADSL, Virgin can increase the speed going to your device at the drop of a hat. The top tier is 152Mbit because that's an arbitrary number Virgin plucked out. They can easily provision that to be 200Mbit and give you 152 while giving the separate wifi 48Mbit. However, it's not even as simple as that, you'll get your full provisioned bandwidth and the separate hotspot will get its own bandwidth. How much bandwidth that is remains to be seen, but it won't be a case of hotspots causing you to loose speed, people can be hammering that but your 152mbit (or whatever) will be safe.
It also makes absolutely no sense for Virgin to provision the hotspot based on what tier you're on.
Also think of it this way - your TV and your broadband share that same cable. Even if you have a second STB, it's one cable going to your house that splits off. The TiVo box has a separate modem in it, yet it doesn't affect your broadband despite being on the same cable.
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Originally Posted by Gavin78
I have my own router so I'm guessing VM will be making these obsolete eventually?
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Not necessarily and not likely.