12-02-2025, 21:28
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by Paul
Maybe they are building in the City ?
I'm not based in the city, thats about 10 miles from me.
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I’m on the Arnold border, near the City Hospital.
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13-02-2025, 00:23
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#47
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Re: Left Virgin
Yeah, I'm way further out, past the M1.
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15-02-2025, 11:29
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Coventry
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by Broken Hope
Mine is with CityFibre, it used to be I could only get VM or really slow OpenReach, like 30Mb, but now I have CityFibre and FTTP from OpenReach available so VM was swiftly cancelled.
I'm from Nottingham too so surprised you can't get CityFibre, though I don't think they have finished building yet.
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I'm lucky to be in Coventry where Cityfibre have installed in every street as well as Bedworth and Nuneaton. I use Fusion Fibre, riding on Cityfibre. For £34 I get a static IP, IPV6, pings below 6ms and a nice symmetrical connection averaging at 920Mb, peaking at 943Mb. Until VM offer a symmetrical service, they are going to be out of the running as more and more areas get access to CF. I guess they figure, correctly, that most customers don't need more than 50MB/100MB upstream, but they need to be more future orientated. The market will demand better upstreams as bandwidth hungry applications roll out.
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Last edited by roughbeast; 15-02-2025 at 12:20.
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15-02-2025, 11:38
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#49
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Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Left Virgin
Virgin missed the boat, they should have upgraded their network to fibre a long time go, now they have to upgrade in order to be competitive but they have already lost lots of customers.
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15-02-2025, 12:31
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Left Virgin
City fibre have just started putting the ducts in down my village high street so I'm guessing that'll be available to me eventually as I live off one of the roads coming off it?
Does anyone know a rough time scale between the start of ducting and customer availability based on your experience, I'm guessing atleast 12 months?
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16-02-2025, 12:43
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Join Date: Jul 2008
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
City fibre have just started putting the ducts in down my village high street so I'm guessing that'll be available to me eventually as I live off one of the roads coming off it?
Does anyone know a rough time scale between the start of ducting and customer availability based on your experience, I'm guessing atleast 12 months?
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Probably about right.
https://www.reddit.com/r/CityFibre/c...e_building_on/
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16-02-2025, 22:08
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty Old Town
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
City fibre have just started putting the ducts in down my village high street so I'm guessing that'll be available to me eventually as I live off one of the roads coming off it?
Does anyone know a rough time scale between the start of ducting and customer availability based on your experience, I'm guessing atleast 12 months?
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From Cityfibre website...
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How will you keep me updated on when I can access the CityFibre network?
To find out when we’re building in your area, register with us. Once you’ve given us your details, we’ll be able to let you know when building is due to start, when it will be finished, and when you can connect via one of our broadband providers to make the most of our fastest network yet.
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16-02-2025, 23:09
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Join Date: Mar 2005
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by Jimmy-J
From Cityfibre website...
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Thanks, already done that but I think I'm super early in looking into it, I was just looking at the colour of the ducts getting laid and with a bit of a Google and this site found out it's City Fibre, also had a response from Open Reach saying FTTP will be coming to my area.
I'm looking forward to ditching everything VM and have multiple choice on high speed internet in the future and hopefully cheaper.
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17-02-2025, 05:01
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common as muck
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Dirty Old Town
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by SnoopZ
Thanks, already done that but I think I'm super early in looking into it, I was just looking at the colour of the ducts getting laid and with a bit of a Google and this site found out it's City Fibre, also had a response from Open Reach saying FTTP will be coming to my area.
I'm looking forward to ditching everything VM and have multiple choice on high speed internet in the future and hopefully cheaper. |
Me too.
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17-02-2025, 10:20
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Re: Left Virgin
What's annoying is even when Virgin do roll out fibre, you're still stuck using a stupid superhub as they aren't using ONT's like pretty much every other fibre network.
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17-02-2025, 10:33
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#56
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Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by Broken Hope
What's annoying is even when Virgin do roll out fibre, you're still stuck using a stupid superhub as they aren't using ONT's like pretty much every other fibre network.
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You're also stuck with VM customer services 
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17-02-2025, 10:43
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#57
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Join Date: Jan 2008
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Re: Left Virgin
Very true.
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17-02-2025, 14:28
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#58
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Join Date: Dec 2003
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by Peter729
You're also stuck with VM customer services |
True, the whole getting stuck at a 50Mb upload on my gigabit connection for a month and them taking a month to fix it was the final straw, much prefer my 2500Mb upload speed now.
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17-02-2025, 15:13
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#59
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Join Date: Dec 2017
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by Broken Hope
True, the whole getting stuck at a 50Mb upload on my gigabit connection for a month and them taking a month to fix it was the final straw, much prefer my 2500Mb upload speed now.
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And having to suffer the drama and frustration of having to explain the same problem to multiple Customer Service people, numerous times. 
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17-02-2025, 18:00
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#60
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Dr Pepper Addict
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Location: Nottingham
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Re: Left Virgin
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Originally Posted by Broken Hope
when Virgin do roll out fibre, you're still stuck using a stupid superhub as they aren't using ONT's like pretty much every other fibre network.
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Isnt this becasue the final bit to your house is not actually fibre, thats the case here, its coax.
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