Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
06-08-2008, 00:14
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Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
Sorry bit confused, but are Virgin not already installing docsis 3 capable modems..
I will admit this comes from one of the few customers who pays for a 20mb line and gets it...
but i ave just recently moved and my service with it... i guessed the modems now support docsis 3...?
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06-08-2008, 00:55
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Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
Nope. All the current modems Virgin suppy are a maximum of DOCSIS 2 only
The DOCSIS 3 version will only be issued to 50Mb customers to start with
If you are a 20Mb/XL customer and upgrade to 50Mb you would get a new modem as part of the upgrade.
I am assuming the DOCSIS 3 modems are backwards compatible, so you then wouldn't need yet another new modem if you went back to 20Mb or below
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06-08-2008, 10:06
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Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
A DOCSIS 3 modem is capable of running on a DOCSIS 1 / 2 network too so if you downgraded you could keep the exsisting modem.
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06-08-2008, 10:43
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Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
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Originally Posted by Impz2002
A DOCSIS 3 modem is capable of running on a DOCSIS 1 / 2 network too so if you downgraded you could keep the exsisting modem.
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Of course. Which is probably what'll happen imo.
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06-08-2008, 19:16
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Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
Hows about, when they send out the new modems, they include packaging to send back the old modems, If I upgrade It'd mean that I have 2 unused modems sat in my loft that I don't want to bin because they don't belong to me.
(mind you, where I used to work I had a cupboard full of the bloody things that have presumably ended up in a landfill).
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06-08-2008, 20:02
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Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
They already do that if they swap the modem for speed issues.
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06-08-2008, 20:03
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Re: Who will pay for docsis 3 modems?
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Originally Posted by Zhadnost
Hows about, when they send out the new modems, they include packaging to send back the old modems, If I upgrade It'd mean that I have 2 unused modems sat in my loft that I don't want to bin because they don't belong to me.
(mind you, where I used to work I had a cupboard full of the bloody things that have presumably ended up in a landfill).
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They will never ask for those modems back as they will be to old to be re-used, if you ever go to your local tip you can put them in the recycling skip for electronic devices.
Or you could just bin them.
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