Well they have have dug up the road now whilst I was away on holiday, tubes laid. Our neighbor phoned up to inquire about the service and was told 1-4 months before it maybe available.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Its fibre right into the home, and a simple converter that the fibre plugs into and pushes out a DOCSIS signal over coax all ready to work with all the existing hardware they use.

EPON doesn't involve DOCSIS. It's what VM will end up using when they're ready to migrate customers from DOCSIS broadband to something different.

True, but that's a future thing

Had one of the contractors involved in the cable roll out at the door over a minor complaint I had, anyways he tells me its full fibre into the premises. With possible speeds he had heard of up to 500Mb if it were ever deployed, but me thinks that is all just rumour. Was more interested on how they would run an install to my house as it ain`t very straight forward.

Once full fibre is in then the sky is limit for speed, i.e. just depends on what speed Virgin Media decides to sell and what speed the hardware on each end will support and how well the local and core network will cope with people using a much faster product.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

what speed the hardware on each end will support

and how much money VM want to spend creating hardware unique for less than 20% of the network coverage. e.g. Tivo / TV6 boxes

In reply to a post by MrGrumpy:

Had one of the contractors involved in the cable roll out at the door over a minor complaint I had, anyways he tells me its full fibre into the premises. With possible speeds he had heard of up to 500Mb if it were ever deployed, but me thinks that is all just rumour. Was more interested on how they would run an install to my house as it ain`t very straight forward.

Don't need FTTP to get to 500Mb. The hybrid network is easily capable.

In reply to a post by jchamier:

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

what speed the hardware on each end will support

and how much money VM want to spend creating hardware unique for less than 20% of the network coverage. e.g. Tivo / TV6 boxes

Nothing to do with broadband service. The STBs installed in FTTP homes are the same as those installed in hybrid network homes.

Not that there is anything wrong with my current BT FTTC connection but it is speed limited due to line length. Doubt I would see any faster speeds in the next couple of years on my line from BT, can see BT losing a few customers round this neck of the woods which is also a pity as it was quite early in adopting FTTC.

In reply to a post by Ignitionnet:

Nothing to do with broadband service. The STBs installed in FTTP homes are the same as those installed in hybrid network homes.

Makes sense, but obviously there is a FTTP to Coax conversion going on to plug a TV6 box in to. Broadband I would hope is different, but expect a standard coax connected SH3 - just the physical plant is fibre rather than coax in the street.