Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
26-01-2018, 12:51
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Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
Virgin Media has a apparently well hidden section of their website where they list where they have infrastructure installed. Your local network hardware could well be in a public toilet, a playing field or any one of a number of repurposed municipal buildings.. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/0...odd_locations/
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26-01-2018, 13:49
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
I know of many weird locations used for "communications" in the UK. All under the OSA of course.
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26-01-2018, 14:43
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
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Thanks to a very obscure corner of Virgin Media's website detailing all of its local infrastructure sites
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So where on the site is this information ?
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26-01-2018, 14:57
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
I'm not sure if I should link to it but it's part of the Virgin Media Business site. I'm not convinced they really intend for a list of all their hubsites to be so publicly available but it's been there for a while.
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26-01-2018, 15:00
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
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So where on the site is this information ?
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Last edited by Paul M; 27-01-2018 at 00:11.
Reason: Actual link removed, ask for it by PM if you really want it.
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26-01-2018, 15:31
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
I always wondered where I was connected to, now I know. 
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26-01-2018, 23:55
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
I also noticed this information was accidentally available about 4 - 5 months ago now - but kept quiet since there's a reason these places are not supposed to be generally known about.
BT are less secretive about their exchange and data centre locations than Virgin - but that's just their main exchanges...
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27-01-2018, 13:35
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
It'd be interesting to know what I'm connected to round here, if anyone fancies giving me a quick nudge by PM 
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27-01-2018, 22:13
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
Perfect excuse if your connection is s*** now 
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28-01-2018, 09:39
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
Interestingly my exchange is a few miles down the road and I drive past it on the way to work every day. I might take a minor detour next time and see if there are any signs outside and what it looks like.
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28-01-2018, 12:15
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
VM hubsites are generally unsigned and pretty well secured for a very good reason
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28-01-2018, 12:23
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
I never worked out what K&N or Eam mean - but that must be internal terminology.
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28-01-2018, 12:24
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
I would love to go inside and see what it looks like with all the hardware and stuff. I am curioys to know whether it is just a boring room with a humming noise or wall to wall of flickering led's
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28-01-2018, 13:38
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
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I would love to go inside and see what it looks like with all the hardware and stuff. I am curioys to know whether it is just a boring room with a humming noise or wall to wall of flickering led's
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I go in them every other day and some are as you say all flashing flickering lights , whilst others don't have a lot in them yet .
But as it has been stated they all have high security on them.
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28-01-2018, 15:15
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Re: Your broadband might be coming from an old public toilet..
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Originally Posted by General Maximus
I would love to go inside and see what it looks like with all the hardware and stuff. I am curioys to know whether it is just a boring room with a humming noise or wall to wall of flickering led's
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Lights, cables and air con!
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