[Gllug] Anyone using Virgin Media?

[Christopher Hunter]

On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 16:52 +0000, Justin Perreault wrote:

> Virgin is now offering only fibre-optic or adsl over a BT line. When I
> lived in Canada cable provided broadband was via a co-axial cable. Does
> anyone know when NTL/Virgin went fibre?

They haven't.  It's just advertising bluster.  You will just get a cheap
coax cable into your new home. 

> Looking into that question I found out that Virgin is only providing
> optical to the street level and individual homes get co-axial. Yes,
> there would be expected speed improvements as the "exchange" is at
> street level wherever they say they can install but does not seem to be
> fibre-optic to the home as the advertising seems to suggest.

It's VERY misleading advertising.  VM are being taken to court over this
and other issues.

> And seeing as how my place is only 1.25 km from an exchange I feel I
> might look elsewhere. Like at Be. However, now that I know the BT line
> connection charge is £125 maybe I'll have to keep looking.

Is there any other BT connections in the building?  BT usually waive the
charge if they can use spare cable capacity, though you have to demand
it!

C.


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