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Originally Posted by nomadking
No, so they are using my BB connection.
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They are no more using your broadband connection than the person next door.
They are using the Superhub Virgin Media have provided you, which they generally retain ownership of, to access the Virgin Media network. The demarcation point between what's yours and what's Virgin Media's as far as your broadband connection goes is the end of the Ethernet cable connecting to the Superhub, or the WiFi signal, which in the case of the guest network is segmented at the Superhub.
You are connected to the Virgin Media network at about 400Mb, you are capped by the service tier you pay for to 152Mb. The WiFi uses its own 'service' on the same cable. It will not impinge on your service unless the area is congested.
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Originally Posted by roughbeast
Thanks for putting right my omission, but this does not undermine my main point.
I was aware of the double cable entering my house. Does this double arrangement run all the way back to the street box or node or does the split from a single cable occur at the pavement connection?
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You have a dedicated link to a street-side
MSAN. Not dissimilar from how BT deliver FTTC, except in the case of VM it carries telco service only.
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Originally Posted by nomadking
Although these might help mitigate my concerns.
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The connection any WiFi user has is nothing to do with yours and wouldn't be traced back to you in any event.
They will not have the same public IP address you do.
Any attempt to trace illegal activity on the WiFi would come back to whomever was using it, not the person whose Superhub they were connecting through, that's irrelevant.