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Do I have regular fiber?

I have Virgin media fiber, so this must mean that fiber runs to my local cabinet? If this is true why can I not get fiber from company's such as BT and Sky?
Thank You!
 
not to mention, l doubt BT will ever stump up the costs for fibre to the home for anything other than newer builds..
 
not to mention, l doubt BT will ever stump up the costs for fibre to the home for anything other than newer builds..

Ofcom seem to be pushing them hard to do more than 2 million FTTP premises. We should find out how much luck they've been having soon as the regulator are about to notify the EC. BT will of course take their negotiation right up to the last minute.
 
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Virgin and BT are two different networks. they only share networks on business or main trunk routes. BT are building fibre nodes to boost there below average speeds (very slowly and behind schedule). Virgin can carry faster speeds due to the fibre translating to RF at a closer proximity than BT. Sky and talk talk just piggybank the BT network.
 
Virgin and BT are two different networks. they only share networks on business or main trunk routes. BT are building fibre nodes to boost there below average speeds (very slowly and behind schedule). Virgin can carry faster speeds due to the fibre translating to RF at a closer proximity than BT. Sky and talk talk just piggybank the BT network.

Sadly VM tend to be as bad as BT when it comes to speed many friends still on VM tend to drop from 200 down to less than 20 with latency jumping very high.
As always any broadband in the UK is contended and the more customers either company connects will have an affect oin those already using it VM have a bad record for updating with dates for upgrades changing monthly. I actually left VM after waiting for upgrades to increase my slow speed in peak times after thired change in date I paid to go back to BT. Found my speeds to be more stable at peak times and any slowing down was never as much as VM with upgrades in weeks instead of months.
 
Sadly VM tend to be as bad as BT when it comes to speed many friends still on VM tend to drop from 200 down to less than 20 with latency jumping very high.
As always any broadband in the UK is contended and the more customers either company connects will have an affect oin those already using it VM have a bad record for updating with dates for upgrades changing monthly. I actually left VM after waiting for upgrades to increase my slow speed in peak times after thired change in date I paid to go back to BT. Found my speeds to be more stable at peak times and any slowing down was never as much as VM with upgrades in weeks instead of months.

I work on the networks in Scotland and would suggest that if speed drops/high latency are common (through a wired connection) that a network upgrade would be required. we are in the process of rolling out teleste fibre nodes in existing RF amps to help improve congested network areas.
 
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Both providers offer three different download speeds. BT broadband has speeds of up to 17Mb, 52Mb, and 76Mb. Virgin Media broadband has speeds of up to 50Mb, 100Mb, and 200Mb.

I know there is a problem with virgin managing web traffic at peak times but the speeds speak for themselves.
 
I used to have VM as I said but losing 90% of your speed when everyone is home and not gaining it back till after midnight is not good. I have friends now on VM 200 down and some nights they cannot even play the old outdated CS 1.6 game due to the latency and they are hard wired as they all know wireless is no use to gaming.

Today I have the BT top speed most I have lost to peak usage was 10% never been enough to stop me doing what I needed to do while VM shows faster speeds the drop in speeds stopped me using the internet in the evening.

I talk from personal experience and the response from friends in TS3 when their VM connection stops them getting into game. One friend was supposed to have seen improvments as upgrade was set but as date arrived in the good old VM style date put back 3 months. So he has another 3 months of unusable connection when it is bad.
 
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