Broadband Hardware Trial 2015

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by SnoopZ

Can you tell us if the second trial group is trialling different hardware to the first?

As far as I know they are not, the difference is firmware rather than hardware, but obviously I'm not privvy to such things so may be wrong.

[qasdfdsaq]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

the competition are bound to come out with better kit to, err, attach to their maximum 80Mb VDSL 2 lines, source.

Shush you.

I for one like the AC speed when transferring stuff across the home network. More and more people have NAS's these days thanks to the pitiful upload speeds on VM making cloud storage of large files a chore.

[Gavin78]

Unless it proves better than my N56U router then I think in the long run it will just run in modem mode.

I'm hoping in the next 6 months or so to upgrade the router to something a bit better anyway

[alexcopeland]

New trial hardware installed but still no access to the trial forums. I have some feedback already. Am I the only one being told I don't have permission?

[MalteseFalcon]

Are you trying to access the right one? I can post in the second trial forum but not the first one.

[alexcopeland]

Mark, I've just replied to your private message.

[mmm]

Originally Posted by alexcopeland

New trial hardware installed but still no access to the trial forums. I have some feedback already. Am I the only one being told I don't have permission?

For the second wave I understand you should have got access to the forum before getting the kit - the instructions on how to install were on the forum, not in the box, apparently!

[alexcopeland]

I managed to register without the instructions fortunately. Kit performs well have. Some feedback about a few settings I feel should be changed by default. Strange I see "Access Denied" on the links sent to me on the trial emails.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by MarkC1984

Are you trying to access the right one? I can post in the second trial forum but not the first one.

You aren't in the first trial

[MalteseFalcon]

I know, which is why I checked. I know that I cannot post in first trial. Sent a pm to them over there for you Alex.

[UnStable]

I received my unit last Wednesday and was planning to set it up early next week but after reading a few posts on the trial forum from people losing their internet completely after set up and the apparent lack of support I think I'll hold fire :/

[TAZMANUK]

As per trial instructions, its not to be discussed on public forums, I cannot comment in you're post but as you can see I do have internet connection

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by UnStable

I received my unit last Wednesday and was planning to set it up early next week but after reading a few posts on the trial forum from people losing their internet completely after set up and the apparent lack of support I think I'll hold fire :/

Well you're on a trial, so expect problems, just install it at a reasonable time in the day when you can get help from the capable VM team on the VM forum if needed.

As the above post says i am also posting with internet.

[Ignitionnet]

I'm not on the trial and not even on-net so don't care, but those of you guys who are on the trial I would strongly recommend avoiding discussion of it on here. VM UK's obsession with secrecy is well known, hence why they were still obfuscating over the kit even when their parent had announced it.

UnStable - do remember you agreed to keep schtum and your having the kit is conditional on that - I didn't hence can say whatever I please

[Skie]

Things so secret we are having to make up change log entries ourselves it seems!