Virgin Media Project Lightning Midlothian rollout

Just a wee post for anyone in the Midlothian area and have been keeping an eye on Virgins Project Lightning FTTP rollout in the county.

They took their 1st steps in Midlothian a couple years ago and initially covered Bonnyrigg and Loanhead.
Early last year they completed Danderhall.

In mid 2019 they started rolling out to parts of Dalkeith, Woodburn, Kippielaw, Easthouses and parts of Mayfield.
Most of this is now live.
The rest of Mayfield was added to roadworks a couple weeks ago.
They added further parts of Dalkeith (parts of town centre and shadepark area) to roadworks about the same time.

I noticed this evening that Newtongrange and Gorebridge has now been scheduled on for later in 2020 which is quite a large expansion and goes a long way towards their stated coverage target for Midlothian.

I went live with Virgin in December.

I now have OpenReach FTTP on the way too. Not part of BDUK or Fibre First.
My guess is they are losing a lot of custom to Virgin so are over building to try win some of that back.

Edited by j0hn83 (Fri 13-Mar-20 11:56:16)

In reply to a post by j0hn83:

I went live with Virgin in December.

What's the latency and jitter like on Project Lightning fibre (RFoG) areas compared to legacy copper coax areas?

Mine seems to have been terrible lately, not sure if I'm having more line issues or it's something else.

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...

It used to be very good.

Last 24 hours
https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...

Not a blip in service in nearly 3 months.

Post deleted by steve195527

Edited by steve195527 (Sat 14-Mar-20 09:38:51)

mine is always good,but it is their new fibre to the home,no coax

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/broadband/monitoring/...
the spikes are when streaming,or seems to be

C:\Users\steve>ping bbc.co.uk

Pinging bbc.co.uk [151.101.128.81] with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from 151.101.128.81: bytes=32 time=12ms TTL=58
Reply from 151.101.128.81: bytes=32 time=9ms TTL=58
Reply from 151.101.128.81: bytes=32 time=8ms TTL=58
Reply from 151.101.128.81: bytes=32 time=7ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 151.101.128.81:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 7ms, Maximum = 12ms, Average = 9ms

Edited by steve195527 (Sat 14-Mar-20 10:21:25)

That doesn't seem to be a public/sharing link .

Hi robert
try it now?

Mine is also fibre to the home (RFOG), had a lot of problems last year, drop outs where we'd loose the connection for some time (10 - 15 minutes several times a day), took ages to convince them to sort it out, telephone support was useless made worse by the fact I use it in modem mode. Eventually got somewhere on the forums, the engineer changed just about everything and that fixed it.

Issues this time are different, seems to be periodic very high pings, I need to get around to makeing sure it's nothing my end.

In reply to a post by steve195527:

Hi robert
try it now?

Yes, that's working now .

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 14-Mar-20 11:15:05)