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Originally Posted by ianch99
The FAQ asserts that the "lodgers" use of your WiFi will not degrade your service:
The assertion that these users are not using their service at home and therefore will not impact your service is dubious. This is only true if they are also assigned to your cable segment, hard to prove but I would think that this scenario would be a minority one.
This raises a potential issue with this new service: if your segment is over-utilised then this additional traffic can only exacerbate the problem. How much by will be governed by the QoS, Bandwidth and Speed settings which AFAIK have not been released yet.
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The thing is, this applies regardless of local congestion. People are going to be upset if the shared wifi impacts their connection and it could impact them if the QoS isn't up to snuff - even in an area with zero congestion.
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Originally Posted by Skie
There's nothing to say what happens to modem mode so I'd not panic just yet.
They won't just turn it off as part of the roll out, Virgin don't like generating more support calls.
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Ding ding ding! Virgin's entire operation revolves around upselling services and reducing support. It would be insane to retroactively disable a feature that was so heavily requested in the first place, because the only reason they created the feature was due to the number of support calls the non-modem mode firmware generated.