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shiwayb
11-03-2009, 16:03
does the engineer bring round the "State Of The Art" Modem?

I got the wireless one in the post and was just wondering about the other one.
Welshchris
11-03-2009, 16:04
yeh he will have it on the van with him.
shiwayb
11-03-2009, 16:04
yeh he will have it on the van with him.


ok Thanks :)
vb_packets
12-03-2009, 18:37
another question for 50MB.. Does Virgin Media require a up front charge or does it show on your next billing date?
telfordcable
12-03-2009, 18:43
I think it rip off of £30 installation charge and £50 of activation fee = £80 is too much
Peter_
12-03-2009, 19:21
I think it rip off of £30 installation charge and £50 of activation fee = £80 is too much
If you want it, you pay it, and many have as it is a bragging point.
pabscars
13-03-2009, 11:24
I think it rip off of £30 installation charge and £50 of activation fee = £80 is too much


But worth every penny to me, not for bragging right's not because i download lots of stuff, but because it gives me a good gaming connection, and for a gamer thats all you want.
Ignitionnet
13-03-2009, 11:35
Something that is worth mentioning is that it does improve pings a couple of ms as you switch from Telewest to ntl upstream configuration.

I think Telewest used additional interleaving to increase SNR on upstream while ntl used less resulting in lower latency. I'd need to see upstream burst parameters on an ntl / 50Mbit modem to confirm of course , these bits to be specific:

FEC Error Correction (T) 0 5 5 3 9
FEC Codeword Information Bytes (k) 16 34 34 78 232
pabscars
13-03-2009, 11:41
One pressumes they are located in the usual place
Stephen
13-03-2009, 16:41
I think it rip off of £30 installation charge and £50 of activation fee = £80 is too much
Its a premium product with a premium price.

If you don't want to pay the extra then stick with 20MB its fast enough.
Rik
13-03-2009, 18:39
I think it rip off of £30 installation charge and £50 of activation fee = £80 is too much

Might be too much for you, but not us rich people ;)
Pushkar
13-03-2009, 19:21
Might be too much for you, but not us rich people ;)

Buy me a new PC then mate ;)
telfordcable
14-03-2009, 12:26
VM told me if I can hold on until next year either March or April 2010 then the 50Mb installation will be free of charge and will throw away a free state of the art 50Mb modem for free if you wish to upgrade from your 10Mbps. But, at the moment is £80 one off installation and activation fee because of shortlisted state of the art modem first serve first come as next year it will be loads of it in stock.

I wait till next year then ! :)
Pushkar
14-03-2009, 15:36
VM told me if I can hold on until next year either March or April 2010 then the 50Mb installation will be free of charge and will throw away a free state of the art 50Mb modem for free if you wish to upgrade from your 10Mbps. But, at the moment is £80 one off installation and activation fee because of shortlisted state of the art modem first serve first come as next year it will be loads of it in stock.

I wait till next year then ! :)

Virgin also said they will have loads more HD channels in 2006, then again in 2007, then again in 2008, and now again it looks like 2009 and still nothing :o:

And I doubt they told you anything, just your dodgy brother's mate.
shiwayb
14-03-2009, 15:38
Virgin also said they will have loads more HD channels in 2006, then again in 2007, then again in 2008, and now again it looks like 2009 and still nothing :o:

And I doubt they told you anything, just your dodgy brother's mate.


lol
Ignitionnet
14-03-2009, 16:34
VM told me if I can hold on until next year either March or April 2010 then the 50Mb installation will be free of charge and will throw away a free state of the art 50Mb modem for free if you wish to upgrade from your 10Mbps. But, at the moment is £80 one off installation and activation fee because of shortlisted state of the art modem first serve first come as next year it will be loads of it in stock.

I wait till next year then ! :)

The modem isn't state of the art, apart from the case which is trivially manufacturable in large quantities it's off the shelf hardware.

I would find it more believable that they saw the opportunity to get 80 quid out of early adopters and avoid congesting the network by keeping uptake relatively low while they rush on rolling it out, rather than maintaining it.

There is a big area sharing bandwidth on the D3 platform, it would not be good if there were lots more and would make VM loads more work.

They are doing the deployment purely to whip the epeen out, nothing else, they don't expect this to be mass market for ages. They are rushing it like crazy as well.

Modems, they likely have bucket loads of them and will be handing them out as the standard modem once the stock of legacy ones is gone. Heck VM don't know what they're doing next year in detail so I have doubts about the installer.

Has your brother's mate considered a career in fairy-tale writing? Or perhaps a self-worth course, it's just not healthy to make random stuff up to try and make what you do seem more important.