How to find nearest virgin cabinet? And does it affect ping?

[BodOps]

Hi all.

Im moving to a new property and just found out that on standard BT/openreach lines i'd be 1500 metres away from the nearest cabinet. Download and upload speeds would be very low and I suspect pings and connections for online gaming might be really bad too.

Been trying to find out where my nearest Virgin cabinet is to compare but after multiple emails, online chats and 2 hours on the phone theyve not been able to provide the info. The person in the sales support team said that distance from the cabinet/exchange wouldn't matter on Virgin (it's different to standard phone lines on openreach apparently) but I don't buy that.

Could you guys let me know how I can find out where the nearest cabinet/exchange is and/or whether distance would affect pings in games etc?

 

[BodOps]

He was correct, however.

Ah nice. Ok so it's more down to how many people are on the service in the local area? Distance wont affect gaming pings?

 

[BodOps]

Rainmaker covered pretty much everything there. Although the distance to the VM cab doesn't matter, there are more of them (which is why most are smaller compared to FTTC cabs) so there should be one fairly close to your house. On my road there is one about 100 metres in both directions. I guess at some stage they will replace the final run which is coaxial from the cab to being all fibre, which is what new installs have had for the last year or so.

Great. Thanks for all the info guys. It'll be a new install at the place because the property has never had virgin before - does that bode well for performance?