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In reply to a post by steve195527:

in the north west near rochdale

I wonder if you're in a recently installed, Project lightning area, using the RFoG design, rather than the traditional HFC.

Was installed in our area about 2yrs ago,it is fibre to the house and just a few feet of coax inside,prob about 12-15ft,at time the 350mb service was fastest available which I am on,have been pleasantly surprised with it as I only moved from Idnet(who were great) because the cost of my bb+tv was going to be very expensive due to sky price increase,the virgin full house option was much cheaper and with far more channels

In reply to a post by steve195527:

I wouldn't say its typical of VM,this is mineMy Broadband Ping

It is typical of much of Virgins HFC/coax network (the vast majority of their network is coax)

My newly installed RFOG (FTTP) connection from Virgin had a very similar BQM to yourself but the older coax bits of the network are much worse.

All that yellow is bad btw. That's jitter. It's there even when the connection is idle.

In reply to a post by steve195527:

Was installed in our area about 2yrs ago,it is fibre to the house and just a few feet of coax inside

Excellent, but that explains the difference. The majority of the Virgin Media cable network does not have the fibre, and can suffer from over utilisation. Some of this is due to the 30+ companies that originally dug the streets in the early 1990s, each company had their own oddities in design.

Given the latency and jitter shown on my BQM, once a real FTTP provider arrives, I will move. I have no other services from VM except broadband, but I appreciate their bundling can save money if you want these services. (I was on FTTC but it no longer met my needs in upload).

Edited by jchamier (Sat 30-Jan-21 11:52:59)