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How do I know if I can get symmetrical download and upload in my area? Right now I’m 1gb down 100 up

Nice setup. In my apartment I have a UPS for backup, but it doesn't help since we use HFC fiber to Coax configuration at the POP for the building that does not have a power backup courtesy of the cable company. So, when power goes down in the building, I lose my internet because the HFC has lost power. When power returned the HFC reconnected to the Rogers CO. But I still must power cycle by router and my Xfinity boxes since they come back faster than the HFC (It takes about three minutes to complete the connection as far as I can tell) Rogers has no interest in adding a UPS to the HCF configuration since we are a low income building and our outages are typically a couple of times a year for less than 5 minutes on average so Rogers representative has explained ot me.

Here in Toronto, I am in a low-income building and use the local cable providers discount plan. They recently upgraded our premises connection to a HFC Hybrid Fiber coax POP fiber connection to the building (FTTB?) that then runs RG56 CATV to the units. It's an easy way to get rid of the aging copper plant i the neighborhoods without having to spend any money re-cabling the actual building units. Rogers have split the building into two HFC Nodes leading back to the single fiber connection that has an HFC control module of some sort. Unfortunately, the installers (third party contractors that spoke extraordinarily little English) were not interested in talking about the setup. They were told where to put the boxes and how to power them. and where to connect the fiber. I got most of the information by looking at the boxes they were throwing in the garbage. and taking pictures when they left the boxes open on the side of the building during their breaks and lunches. the Fiber itself was installed by another third-party contractor (They were even less willing to talk to me) and told me to call Rogers) They knew nothing about the architecture or configuration. One for each face of the building (East side and west side) It's been remarkably stable with only one major outage due to a regional power failure lasting several hours. The downside to the HFC configuration is that it relies on building power for its operation and Rogers is not interested in installing a UPS to keep both nodes operational since power failures typically last only a few minutes. The HFC nodes will re-establish their connection when they get powered up. Then we must manually cycle our routers to re-establish the connection to the HFC Nodes. Now on top of this we also use Xfinity for our cable TV. which establishes a wireless connection to the router in our unit with a private hidden VPN. The VPN Channel is fully encrypted as well so getting the details even with packet sniffing would not be possible without the decryption key and it is a session-based key from what I have been told. Thus, it changes every time the router is power cycled, and a new connection is established. So, even with a direct fiber connection I could not work directly from my own router unfortunately. I would still need the Rogers router for the Xfinity session.

Hey, Thanks for this video and the guide you done, very much appreciated, I will be following this all very shortly, got my new router, WAS-110 on their way, however I need to get the LC/APC to SC/APC, You have kindly linked to a cable on amazon, but is there also just an adaptor to convert the existing VM cable to SC/APC, if possible can you link one that will work or reccommended, I want to ensure I don't order the wrong adaptor, thank you

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Hi I have city fibre network installed to my address and having trouble choosing between A&A, IDNet, Yayzi, or Zen. These are supposedly the top 4 ISP’s from my research. The broadband will be used for working from home and mobile gaming. I am based in Coventry, West Midlands. Which of the ISP’s would you recommend and is a static IP required so I don’t have CGNAT? All help is appreciated.

Wouldn't touch VM with a barge pole, currently on a city fibre connection 1gb up/down, switching isp's Thursday and getting upto 2.5gb up/down as this area now has the XGS-PON upgrade.

You have two "Sticks" in the last pic. Were you doing Failover? I'm trying to look into auto gateway failover with Ubiquiti Shadow mode.

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Very informative, thank you for producing this 👍

This is stunning!💯

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The B&W variant has been used during closedown in the mid-90's, but this variant wasn't (it was used into Ceefax from 1998-1999).

This ident might have been the "default" ident from 1995-1997 when the network transmission area opened, and it was replaced by "Swan" from 1998 onwards. Hence it was the ident most commonly used for closedowns during that time.

Along with Optic, Steam, Car and Shadow, this ident was most likely to be used whenever BBC2 closed down for the night in the mid-90's.

I was on Virgin Media all went well until I tried to report a fault.

It would;d be nice to see a video of a cab install.

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What speed plan sdo u have

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I assume you use the Virgin HUB in modem mode since you have better equipment? This is something I'm gonna be doing in a couple of weeks when they install VM into my home.

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will Virgin implement anything that can cause this not to work in future

Im a total noob when it comes to VLAN's can someone help me with connecting the PON fibre module to sharing its internet across my network?

I’m trying to,figure out here the ‘0 point’ is for the fibers?

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For MikroTik from the console, you use; /interface ethernet set sfp1 auto-negotiation=no /interface ethernet set sfp1 disable-running-check=yes This turns off management of the SFP port to manage the speed it can connect at, and will turn on the optics on the SFP. Make sure you have a dust cover in place on the optics so not to blind yourself. 'sfp1' is the sfp interface in RouterOS.

Looks like Virgin have enabled 'modem mode' on the 5x router again, not sure if it has issues. Any thoughts?

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Don't know why they don't just do this from the start

After getting the Hub 5x a month ago I've been through all the hoops of trying to get modem mode to work, with absolutely no success I stumbled upon your website yesterday and I'm definitely giving this a go. Thanks for taking the time to cover it in such detail, it's a shame Virgin don't really seem to care. I have a full unifi network with AP's, cameras, dream machine etc... and I'm not going to just use their awful wifi hub because they can't get modem mode working.

Youll be taking away the smart monitoring feature that the Hub5x uses to test for any area issues ect. Samknows monitoring wont relay back to the servers and cause issues resulting in technicians being booked to your address for BB issues ect.

not from the UK but good to See Virgin is finally Doing FTTP BT/openreach has been doing them for years now

Is it still IPv4 only?

sent this over to my friends at Virgin to see what they've got to say. this is almost definitely against tos

Sent this over to my friends at virgin to see what they've got to say.. this can't be allowed

I heard that with GPON the Max they can gave you is 2,5 Gbit Download and 1,25 Gbit Upload can i get Symmetrical Speeds Up 1 Gig with GPON too,or do i need XGS-PON or AON,greetings from Germany at the meanwhile i have Docsis 3.1 from Vodafone with 1 Gigabit Download and 50 Mbps Upload Ping is very good 5-10ms to the near Server when i test with the Ookla App for Windows i have a FritzBox 6690 Cable with a 2,5 Gbit Port in my PC i got a 2,5 Gbit LAN Card with the Overprovisioning from Vodafone i get around 1100 Mbps Download and 50 Mbps Upload Ping 5-6ms no Packet loss nothing im very Happy but very soon i get Fiber Optic to via GPON then i got 1100 Download and 550 Mbps Upload ❤😊

And Virgin could have just added modem mode or allowed users to request an ONT instead of a hub5x, complete inflexibility.

IP host MAC needs to be the one on the bottom of the hub or you'll get a false O5. Mine was different to the :01 MAC.

Great video. Are you able to add a link for the cable or adapter to attach the fibre to the WAS-110 so we don’t buy the wrong thing?

Cool stuff as always, is there a performance difference between the WAS-110 and the Hub 5x, in terms of speed?

Great to watch such an informative video, thanks for posting! I live in a small town who are only just getting VM rolled out so nice to see that these new technologies replacing DOCSIS make all the difference for reliability.

Contract up for renewal, i had no information from them , about my renewal options . In fact i have opted to leave them , with constant mid contract price increases being the main reason plus very poor customer service when you need to get hold of them . Ie not a non talkative chat bot . I will never be a customer of vir min mega even again .

Still no IPV6 though. 😂

here in egypt they only use Huawei and zte infrastrucure, ithink they are cheaper because the main telecom provider is literally installing fiber to millions of homes at the same time

A great video we just had M500 installed about 2 months ago and very happy compared to are very slow BT, thank you once again

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This is amazing! I would recommend a concrete barrier so a drunk driver does not hit it.

@nsmmedia has your ping gone up the last few days?? mines gone to crap now >.<

Even alough ive took full fibre how much data comes with my contract.