Whats is this Virgin Media Building For? - Papworth, Cambridgeshire
I live in a village with no cable (crap ADSL) but we have a building that has very high security and is constantly visited by Virgin Media vans.
I'm just interested to find out what the building for and more importantly why I don't have cable as I'm less than a quarter of a mile away. Google Map http://goo.gl/maps/BFfn StreetView http://goo.gl/maps/Vafx I and most of my neighbours would gladly dump BT and their poor ADSL service if we had the choice. |
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Papworth headend/"exchange".
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It's a Virgin Media hubsite. It houses the 5 broadband routers that feed the area with their Internet service and the equipment that transmits that and the TV signals.
It's the equivalent of a BT exchange if you like. All homes with cable in its' served area are connected to it via coaxial cable and fibre. |
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I'm so close I could string an ethernet cable out the kitchen window to it! |
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I've done a postcode check of the actual site and it is showing as serviceable...
How close are you exactly? Can you see any green cabinets? |
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Grey boxes but can't see any green. |
Re: Whats is this Virgin Media Building For? - Papworth, Cambridgeshire
Do you know if they are ntl boxes or BT?
Whats your postcode [PM if you want]? Chances are you will have to fill in a cable my street request. P.S: I know the feeling, I live in a new house in a cabled area around 100m from a cabinet, no service for me (and I work for VM!). |
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---------- Post added at 16:06 ---------- Previous post was at 15:28 ---------- A bit more google street viewing reveals green boxes between the headend and my house http://goo.gl/maps/ldxe http://goo.gl/maps/tgQt http://goo.gl/maps/pLcz |
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Don't listen to the lies its where they horde their stolen monies from the customers for a crappy service :P
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Maybe it's just a cafe where VM employees get a good discount? That would explain the constant visits and vans parked outside.
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Old thread I know but Virgin got back to me (finally).
They said they did a survey (not sure how) and they reckon it would cost £1082 per house to cable which seems odd as the green boxes are in place and we have a head end. Virgin told me the target cost of installation is around £300 per house. |
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its a virgin brothel
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Re: Whats is this Virgin Media Building For? - Papworth, Cambridgeshire
What is this VM building in Bromborough, Wirral? I never see any Virgin Media vans there.
http://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=Bromb...251.54,,0,4.25 |
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might eba headend but cant be sure cant see it closely nor am i aware of a headend in that area
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Its listed as NTL at the entrance to the industrial estate.
http://www.google.co.uk/maps?q=Bromb...6,,2,9.22&z=19 |
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Yeah used to have NTL on it. There are some vans parked outside it actually if you look on Street View.
I was told in another thread there isn't a headend there and the headend for most of the north west is Baguley in Manchester. Could this building be a hubsite instead and if so, what's the difference? |
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Its the switch site for the wirral. I go there every other week to do various surveys.
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Back when I was knee-high to a grasshopper, we lived in Wythenshawe. I went to Wythenshaw college. At the end of the road where the college was (its now been demolished), was a Tesco's store, "Tescos Baguely". Right behind that, was a big building, that had more satellite dishes than I had acne, with NTL signs everywhere.
Would I be right in assuming that was the NTL (now virgin) headend? |
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