23-06-2009, 11:44
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Born again teenager.
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Manchester. (VM area 20)
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
As far as I am aware you just registered your interest in taking part. Even if you were to be chosen to be on the trial I don't think anyone can force you to install the hardware. 
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23-06-2009, 11:51
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#32
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Inactive
Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
Just thought I'd point something out, and play devils advocate...
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Who can join in?
Anyone who has fibre optic broadband from Virgin Media can take part.
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I don't believe anyone actually has "fiber optic broadband", its certainly not a fiber coming into my house... So, perhaps its worded like that to allow them to negate the results if it doesn't go in their favour?
One other thing, the application form.. It asks for your customer account number, yet its not protected by ssl. Its a standard http://. Not very secure is it?
Double
In any case, I've registered.
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23-06-2009, 15:26
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#33
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Inactive
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Leeds, West Yorkshire
Age: 47
Posts: 13,995
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
This thing won't be knowing how much bandwidth you've used, it's just a small device that runs a few tests on your connection when it's not being used heavily.
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23-06-2009, 15:29
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#34
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Permanently Banned
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: In a world of no buffering!!
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
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Originally Posted by Milambar
One other thing, the application form.. It asks for your customer account number, yet its not protected by ssl. Its a standard http://. Not very secure is it?
Double
In any case, I've registered. |
It is an internal site and within the Virgin network hence no www at the beginning.
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26-06-2009, 19:49
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#35
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Inactive
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Rochdale
Services: 30Mb BB that is'nt
Posts: 11
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
did anybody recieve any notice of acceptance for this trial?
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26-06-2009, 19:50
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#36
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Inactive
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Manchester, UK
Services: ClearFibre Internet, Vodafone mobile Google Pixel 4
Posts: 9,699
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
Not yet...
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26-06-2009, 20:33
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#37
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Inactive
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Peterborough
Services: Virgin Media XL
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Virgin Mobile
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
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Originally Posted by Adi
did anybody recieve any notice of acceptance for this trial?
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We're all waiting with bated breath!
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30-06-2009, 14:52
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#38
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George Bromfield
Join Date: Jun 2008
Location: Liverpool
Services: virgin 500 bb phone xl sky Q
Posts: 99
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
I applied about a week ago heard nothing
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30-06-2009, 17:39
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#39
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cf.mega poster
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: At My Desk
Services: Virgin Media V6 XL TV - 1Gb Broadband
Posts: 3,009
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
They will start the trial soon they need to make sure the hardware is fully approved.
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30-06-2009, 18:58
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Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Somewhere
Services: Virgin for TV and Internet, BT for phone
Posts: 26,546
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
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Originally Posted by Moldova
It is an internal site and within the Virgin network hence no www at the beginning.
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You sure? I was able to open the form (although I didn't fill it in and submit it) and I am not connected to virgin's network.
Just had a look at the <form> tags and it appears to be submitting to the same server. I wouldn't recommend filling out the form.
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30-06-2009, 19:52
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#41
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 954
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
As a sysadmin, part of my job is setting up nameservers and apache vhosts. Sorry Moldova, the presence or absence of a www means nothing, and the absence of it it certainly does not mean its an "internal network".
In fact, one of the servers I configured last week, is configured to respond to both the http://www.<domainname>, AND http://<domainname>. Does that mean its an "Internal Network"? No, it doesn't.
The form submits to a virginmedia server "http://allyours.virginmedia.com/cgi-bin/formactions/mail.pl" to be exact. Its calling a mail script written in perl. However, this does not mean that its an "internal network" or "internal site".
On balence of probabilities, it probably is an internal site, and that my traffic does not get routed outside of the VM network. However, I feel it is misleading to state that the absence of a www means its an "internal site", as others without an indepth knowlege of the domain name system, vhosts etc, would probably believe exactly that, and think that any domain without a www is an "internal site".
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03-07-2009, 21:21
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#42
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Inactive
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Telford
Age: 60
Posts: 40
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
got the kit today - piece of cake to fit, took 1 minutes tops.
Also you get the chance of winning a £100 voucher just for applying, see the Ts and Cs
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all applicants for participation in the Trial by the closing date will be entered into a prize draw to win one of 20 £100 gift vouchers
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Application is linked from http://www.virginmedia.com/myvirginm...lity-trial.php
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04-07-2009, 04:36
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#43
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Inactive
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Peterborough
Services: Virgin Media XL
Broadband XL
Virgin Mobile
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Posts: 2,560
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
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Originally Posted by Sambora
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Did it just turn up, or did you get an email from them prior?
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04-07-2009, 07:41
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Grumpy Fecker
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Warrington
Age: 66
Services: Every Weekend
Posts: 17,059
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
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Originally Posted by Sambora
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Excellent in that case i should get my kit soon as well.
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04-07-2009, 09:30
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Inactive
Join Date: Nov 2005
Services: Virgin Media 152mbit Broadband. But!. massive utilization issues 'Apparently' Killing it.
Posts: 232
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Re: Broadband Quality Trial
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Originally Posted by bluecandylover
I've signed up for it. Although my connection runs lovely.
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You will most likely get chosen then!. I've chosen to do it becuase then they can see just how realistictly unstable there network is.
If they really want to see the majority of problems they are having they will be gutsy enough to choose mine.
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