Virgin XGS-PON thread

My town had Nexfibre rolled out 18-24 month ago and I never saw a Nexfibre van. They were all either VMO2 branded or third party contractors which is still the case for new customer installs. Even the fibre duct chamber lids they installed in footpaths all have Virgin Media on the nameplate.

Edit: They also took good advantage of the OR ducts and telegraph poles.
 
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Slackworth said:
I think that's pretty much the same as the HFC network - still on the same external IP as I was several months ago. DDNS does its job though.
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I swapped from VM to Lightspeed for my BB - Lightspeed is really good, the service levels are far suprerior to VM.

Also Lightspeed doesn't increase your bill every April by £89126748194 too.
I have the static IP from lightspeed, works great.

I don't have any TV service now, since dropping VM - but to be honest streaming services are fine. In fact, our VM TV boxes had not been turned on in around 6 months before I left VM. Didn't realise not one person in my house used the TV at all. TV license also gone now, no need for it.
 
In case it helps someone in the future, I just spoke with GiffGaff and they don't perform a hard credit search when you apply for broadband. The website doesn't make that clear.
 
Luckily I don’t need it as I have CityFibre but looks like XGS-PON has live in my area of Nottingham as both GiffGaff and Virgin’s Gig2 are showing as available at my address now.

So that’s now all the main players giving me FTTP access at my address.
 
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It's good to see that at least Virgin are installing XGS-PON tech as competition is what keep tech moving forward and deployed! when I moved here 16 or 17 years ago coming from 7meg adsl to Virgin 50meg was awesome, however over the years they stayed pretty stagnant and customer service was woeful. We had City fibre Lay cable here so have been on XGS-PON for a while. BT have full fibre in the area too, yet here Virgin is still only FFTC.
 
Down in the middle of Devon, cant really fault it, never had problems. But you need to get the real speed testing they do hourly removed.
It really screws up online gaming with disconnects, lag spikes etc.
No other provider here atm.
 
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What does this mean?
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Basically every hour the router runs line tests that cause disconnects, high latency and other crap, it's a nightmare for playing games, let's say path of exile 2 for example, I got mine removed about 8 months ago via the community forums.
It's not limited to 2gb either.
 
erill1971 said:
Basically every hour the router runs line tests that cause disconnects, high latency and other crap, it's a nightmare for playing games, let's say path of exile 2 for example, I got mine removed about 8 months ago via the community forums.
It's not limited to 2gb either.
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How did you get those tests removed?
 
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erill1971 said:
Basically every hour the router runs line tests that cause disconnects, high latency and other crap, it's a nightmare for playing games, let's say path of exile 2 for example, I got mine removed about 8 months ago via the community forums.
It's not limited to 2gb either.
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Thanks! Never heard of it before. Does it affect GiffGaff connections too?
 
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