In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by PaulKirby:

I TBH don't think it would of taken 5 years to upgrade / add hardware an area with slow speeds, but I have seen similar posts saying the same thing referring to bandwidth issues.

So the openreach copper network is point to point, homes to exchange, or homes to cabinet. With cable, there is essentially one long section that runs from home to home to home to home. Only at the end is the coax converted to fibre.

If there are too many high usage homes on a segment of coax, the sharing ratio goes wrong VERY fast, and very expensively. This can only be fixed by splitting the coax, and adding in new fibre to coax joints. Running the fibre back to the regional head end. Hence the costs of upgrading for VM are quite dramatic. It is sometimes cheaper to switch the frequencies in use, e.g. DOCSIS 1.1 to 2.0, to 3.0, and now in some cities up to 3.1 to support the new Gig1 service.

You get lower latency on point to point, just compare my BQM with FTTC users, but when my upload dropped below 4 Mbps, and download was 38, I decided time to jump ship. I now have a reliable 200 down, and 20 up, which compared to the 4G around here at the moment is working well.

Thanks, I didn't know that much how VM does their cabling, all I knew was that the coax went down the road and at every home there is a T-Joint on that cable to connect to that home as it does down the road and that was about it.

But that does make sense, so thanks.

Yeah your BQM look nice a lot better than some VM BQM images I have seen.

Paul