Cable Modem

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

Another good example if your monitor, you dont get drivers for most monitors so you dont see your monitor in your device manager either, you just see your display adaptor (graphics card) and your monitor is connected to that.

Er that one doesn't work actually as monitors DO show up in the Device Manager - even it is just 'Plug and Play Monitor'

[Asoltan]

thanks for all your help
BTW what does FTTH mean?

Fiber to the home, and I have no idea why that was posted by v0id.

Linky
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FTTH

[Edit]
My bad v0id, I see where fiber was mentioned.
Asoltan, the thick white cable in your modem is COAX

[kpanchev]

Originally Posted by Asoltan

thanks for all your help
BTW what does FTTH mean?

This means fibre to the home (premises) and as far as I know, it hasn't happened yet anywhere in the UK. Which means that you don't have fibre.

[Asoltan]

My mistake, The last 4.5metres of cable are in fact coax, But up to the outside wall of my house there is fibre optic cable, so i think kpanchev is just being pedantic

[Joxer]

Nope, sory Asoltan up to your house is coax too.

[kpanchev]

Originally Posted by Asoltan

My mistake, The last 4.5metres of cable are in fact coax, But up to the outside wall of my house there is fibre optic cable, so i think kpanchev is just being pedantic

Who told you that? Or maybe you believe all the adverts from Virgin media? Sorry to disappoint you, but welcome to the club!

You may find its more like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HF...rk_Diagram.png

Coax after the optical node.

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Er that one doesn't work actually as monitors DO show up in the Device Manager - even it is just 'Plug and Play Monitor'

I know, but i don't count that, generic devices are a waste of time, i was refering to a defined and customisable peripheral

[Graham M]

Originally Posted by Asoltan

My mistake, The last 4.5metres of cable are in fact coax, But up to the outside wall of my house there is fibre optic cable, so i think kpanchev is just being pedantic

Nope anything up to the last 500m or more could be coax, it's Fibre to a street cabinet and then Coax thereafter, and it might not even be Fibre to your local street cabinet either.

[Asoltan]

The optical node is directly outside my house, the outside wall of my house is directly adjacent to the distribution box, I watched the engineer putting the cable in and he showed me the fibre optic cable entering the box.
I stand by my last post, (though I must admit I did believe that it was all the way to my modem)

[Graham M]

In which case fair enough, but for most people as you can imagine this isn't the case, not all of the street cabinets contain an optical connection

[Asoltan]

Originally Posted by Graham M

In which case fair enough, but for most people as you can imagine this isn't the case, not all of the street cabinets contain an optical connection

I wasn't aware of this untill I started this thread. I remember VM's adverts saying about fibre optic and believed that everyone was being converted to FO, I still dont know why my speed is so slow though.
I've emailed Virgin with test results and await their reply.

[zantarous]

Originally Posted by Graham M

In which case fair enough, but for most people as you can imagine this isn't the case, not all of the street cabinets contain an optical connection

Does this have a impact on what servers are offered in this area, I always thought that fiber ran all the way to the street cabs which is why they can offer 20MB as the coax run from the street cab to your house is then quite small?

[BenMcr]

Nope. the fact its an HFC network allows the services.

Virgin will be able to run 200Mbit over the co-ax in the future