VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
20-10-2014, 17:30
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
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Originally Posted by Stop It
Indeed let us know if you could. I hope you get to be part of the Gigabit trial if that's what you want. For sure it'll be impressive and as it is FTTP it should be a very decent experience indeed.
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Well that was brief....
I have a grey Virgin Media street box and also a new floorbox close to my house but the Virgin rep was expecting there to be some small plastic tubes ready for the cable however I don't have this nor do my neighbours or the other 30+ houses around me I just checked. However I was definitely on his spreadsheet of houses that should be getting VM services. I bloody should be I've campaigned for it for about 4 years!
Other house a few streets away have these little tubes, with these in place he said connection is two days away:
He is going to take some photos and call his boss and will get back to me tomorrow, looks like someone has cocked up!
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23-10-2014, 14:52
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
Update on this....
We are good to go as there is underground ducting in place hence why we are not seeing the pavements up to the house dug up and for me as I have a long driveway there is a pipe already in place under the drive and we found the end next to the house buried under some gravel.
As for pricing cause there is no phone for the 152mb service and XL TV its £74.49, free installation and £100 credit on your bill. Seems quite expensive as I have to keep paying BT £15 a month as well although I'm consider moving to Vonage.
The gigabit trial probably wont kick off until the new year now.
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29-10-2014, 08:29
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
Install is tomorrow, I now have one of those green small tubes pulled through the duct down my drive ready for the fibre to be pushed down.
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29-10-2014, 08:42
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
Good luck.
£75pm seems quite expensive but I'm guessing you'll be paying that when you get the Gigabit trial start too?
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29-10-2014, 08:52
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
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Originally Posted by Stop It
Good luck.
£75pm seems quite expensive but I'm guessing you'll be paying that when you get the Gigabit trial start too?
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I hope so (if I get selected for the trial). I did add up the costs from BT and Sky for our current TV and broadband and virgin is slightly cheaper.
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29-10-2014, 18:23
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing your TBB graph 
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30-10-2014, 16:09
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
No Idea what a TBB graph is.
Install done.
Fibre to the house and into a RFoG box where it coverts to coax for the Tivo and SuperHub. VM engineer tells me the gigabit trial will be fibre straight into a new router and coax still for the Tivo. Thinks realistically Q1 for the gigabit trial.
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30-10-2014, 20:25
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
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Originally Posted by NoCableForMe
No Idea what a TBB graph is.
Install done.
Fibre to the house and into a RFoG box where it coverts to coax for the Tivo and SuperHub. VM engineer tells me the gigabit trial will be fibre straight into a new router and coax still for the Tivo. Thinks realistically Q1 for the gigabit trial. |
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/monitors.html
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31-10-2014, 07:13
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
The TBB monitor won't be any different from a normal one, guys.
Grossly simplifying the last bit of coax has been replaced with fibre. The kit either side is the same, works the same way, and produces the same latency.
The monitor may show less jitter depending on how many premises are on the upstreams. To be honest you'd probably find the statistics from the Superhub more interesting viewing incase there are 4 upstreams or whatever.
When the 1Gb trial goes live, however, latency will be lower than cable services.
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31-10-2014, 10:37
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
Wait if the last bit of coax has been replaced with fibre and it's still using a standard Superhub, where exactly is the fibre <-> coax medium changer placed now? Or have they shoved an optical transceiver into a Superhub?
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31-10-2014, 11:47
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Wait if the last bit of coax has been replaced with fibre and it's still using a standard Superhub, where exactly is the fibre <-> coax medium changer placed now? Or have they shoved an optical transceiver into a Superhub?
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Quote:
Originally Posted by NoCableForMe
Fibre to the house and into a RFoG box where it coverts to coax for the Tivo and SuperHub. VM engineer tells me the gigabit trial will be fibre straight into a new router and coax still for the Tivo. Thinks realistically Q1 for the gigabit trial.
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31-10-2014, 13:15
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
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Originally Posted by NoCableForMe
No Idea what a TBB graph is.
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It's one of these:
It's really good for measuring the quality of your connection, beyond just the speed of it. You should set one up, it's free and is a great way to know when your line quality has dropped - http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping
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31-10-2014, 13:41
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
Lol I fail at reading. Thanks Ben.
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01-11-2014, 20:33
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
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01-11-2014, 21:51
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Re: VM FTTP trial Papworth Everard
See below.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
The TBB monitor won't be any different from a normal one, guys.
Grossly simplifying the last bit of coax has been replaced with fibre. The kit either side is the same, works the same way, and produces the same latency.
The monitor may show less jitter depending on how many premises are on the upstreams. To be honest you'd probably find the statistics from the Superhub more interesting viewing incase there are 4 upstreams or whatever.
When the 1Gb trial goes live, however, latency will be lower than cable services.
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