Virgin Media Discussion Thread

I've only just noticed that I'm in a phase 2 area for CityFibre. It could still be a few years away but should be plenty of competition here soon enough as OpenReach and GrainConnect have also planned FTTP builds.
 
I would expect network builders to assess the conditions on the ground before making the final decision on whether to build - where I live has almost blanket Virgin Media coverage except for the houses built in the last decade, FTTC coverage, Openreach are building FTTP and have about 30% of the place covered, and Lit Fibre are probably closer to 60%. Netomnia were originally planning to build here as well but I think they saw Lit move in and probably correctly determined that the market isn't big enough for four physical gigabit-capable networks.
 
chrcoluk said:
That looks like docsis (local node) style congestion, if its a routing issue, typically you would see the base line latency increase and the yellow (peak) less spiky. like johnno and @xb8browney graphs.

I can confirm my VM graph on Tuesday was fine.

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It did look like congestion but it started and stopped at near enough the same time as everyone else’s. This is a typical day for for my VM connection (yesterday). Was playing an online game from 8-11pm, always seems to make the average latency line a bit thicker.

 
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Disco_P said:
@mattyg BQM only works if you disable the firewall of the virgin router (assuming you're not using it in modem mode)

Whilst you're VPNing, surely your BQM is just quality checking your VPN provider's server?
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Its usually in Modem mode. I've currently (as of an hour ago) got it in router mode as virgin have asked me to strip back the network to just VM hub4 and conect via that
 
the-evaluator said:
No, the BQM will still be pointing at the WAN IP of the VM Hub which won't change when the VPN is up.
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The IP is visible so I checked and it's hosted by M247 so it was just the VPN server.
mattyg said:
Its usually in Modem mode. I've currently (as of an hour ago) got it in router mode as virgin have asked me to strip back the network to just VM hub4 and conect via that
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Make sure that respond to ping requests is enabled in whatever router you are using.
 
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Speaking of dodgy BQMs, seems I hit a depth charge on Tuesaday.
When I sing Spla, you shout DOOOSH!
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mattyg said:
Should I have blocked that out..

Am I going to get cloned now.
Lose my house
My wife and my hair..

Ok hair already gone. And the wife seems to be sticking around too...
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It's a matter of opinion. Personally I'm not bothered about posting my WAN IP, every website I visit sees it so it's hardly a secret.

Here though, it's been very useful as it shows that this BQM:
mattyg said:
BQM Using a VPN

BQM VPN
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is pointless. It's pointing to the VPN server so isn't looking at anything to do with your Virgin Media connection.
 
the-evaluator said:
Here though, it's been very useful as it shows that this BQM:


is pointless. It's pointing to the VPN server so isn't looking at anything to do with your Virgin Media connection.
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Does it not go via virgin media first

I've no idea how it works.

Using a vpn didn't help get around traffic shaping back in the day. I assumed it still went via virgin
 
mattyg said:
Does it not go via virgin media first

I've no idea how it works.

Using a vpn didn't help get around traffic shaping back in the day. I assumed it still went via virgin
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When you turn on a vpn, all traffic on your computer goes through VM to your VPN server then to the wider web and all sites only see the vpn server ip.

But all traffic to the VPN server doesn't go to your computer.
 
mattyg said:
Does it not go via virgin media first

I've no idea how it works.

Using a vpn didn't help get around traffic shaping back in the day. I assumed it still went via virgin
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If you were to point a BQM at a website, any website then the BQM is monitoring the network between the BQM server and web server only. It doesn't touch your VM connection at all even though you may well be accessing that website from you VM connection. It's the same here.
 
For the curious, I have a graph going over an AAISP tunnel to my VM connection.

IPv6 sorry as I disabled the IPv4 monitoring. Its labelled FTTC. but its actually going over L2TP I have transferred my IP's over to the L2TP service.

 
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Anyone on here seeing the 100Mbps upload speed yet on a residential package?

I haven't even got the 3.1 channels on my upstream according to my Hub5 and I'm in a relatively new area with RFoG.
 
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Ayahuasca said:
Anyone on here seeing the 100Mbps upload speed yet on a residential package?

I haven't even got the 3.1 channels on my upstream according to my Hub5 and I'm in a relatively new area with RFoG.
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Are they doing that yet.
I'm going to go for the Business 1 gig, which has the 100Mb upload...

Theyve ben out today. Found a couple of issues. Noise and bad connectors in the pit... Swapped the Hub4 For a Hub5 and all seems good so far.

Apart from my S22 refusing to connect to my new Ubiquiti AP 6E
 
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