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Nexfibre - Rollout Discussion

just use an F&F link usually a few floating around Reddit.

my 2gig has been fine, not noticed much difference in the way of day downloading, but upload being 200mb is nice,
Thanks Martyn,
I've read up on these, but wasn't able to find one. I'll keep looking.
 
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Can anyone put any credence to the following? Been told 1-6 months before I can get it live, which isn't the bit I am curious about, but a sales person (so maybe take this with your preferred quantity of salt) told me that vastly faster speeds are going to be available in the next 6 months... Anyone know of anything?
 
Can anyone put any credence to the following? Been told 1-6 months before I can get it live, which isn't the bit I am curious about, but a sales person (so maybe take this with your preferred quantity of salt) told me that vastly faster speeds are going to be available in the next 6 months... Anyone know of anything?
The technology allows it but not heard any good rumours other than trials for 2Gbit.

The challenge for VM is how to deliver these new products whilst not annoying their existing customer base on older platforms.
 
The technology allows it but not heard any good rumours other than trials for 2Gbit.

The challenge for VM is how to deliver these new products whilst not annoying their existing customer base on older platforms.
Yeah I was skeptical too.
 
Just to update this thread from my perspective.

I created this thread on December 11th when I first spotted NexFibre (actually Svella) engineers on our estate. They were very active during December and returned in January to finish off the physical deployment.

I've just checked the VMO2 website today and I can now place an order.
 
Quick question, maybe for @Kris_

As I understand it customers in XGSPON areas will be supplied the Hub5X and, if I'm reading correctly, this cannot be used in modem-only mode.

If that's correct how would I integrate my existing mesh setup if I place an order with VMO2 for Gig1?
 
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Quick question, maybe for @Kris_

As I understand it customers in XGSPON areas will be supplied the Hub5X and, if I'm reading correctly, this cannot be used in modem-only mode.

If that's correct how would I integrate my existing mesh setup if I place an order with VMO2 for Gig1?
I think at present you may have to double NAT, not sure what system you have though.

I think I will have to do that and just have opnSense NAT for me and keep everything the same behind it. It wont matter a great deal.
 
I think at present you may have to double NAT, not sure what system you have though.

It's only a cheap Tenda system. Looking at the app it supports -

PPPoE
DHCP
Static IP Address
Bridge

I currently have my VDSL router in bridge mode and the Tenda in PPPoE mode. I'm not sure which would be applicable for VM XGSPON though (this is where I'm niaive to these things)
 
Quick question, maybe for @Kris_

As I understand it customers in XGSPON areas will be supplied the Hub5X and, if I'm reading correctly, this cannot be used in modem-only mode.

If that's correct how would I integrate my existing mesh setup if I place an order with VMO2 for Gig1?
Yep that’s right based on what I’ve read here.

I still can’t order VM so ended up with EE :)
 
Still can't order yet, but my area is now showing up on the TBB availability for nexfibre, just a matter of time now I guess. I badgered Openreach for an update on when I can expect connectivity from them and indeed, I am on their build plan that will conclude in October 2025. They are currently building in my town, so I will take that estimate. Would time nicely to see through a single VM contract at least, but we shall see how it pans out. If VM turns out to be decent then I will happily stay with them...
 
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Still can't order yet, but my area is now showing up on the TBB availability for nexfibre, just a matter of time now I guess.
Like you say I'm sure it's just a matter of time.

In my case, they (Nexfibre/Svella) were really active and then disappeared for a couple of weeks. They returned earlier this week doing final checks, as far as I can tell, and then 8 am yesterday the VM checker updated and we could place orders.

By 11 AM Virgin sales reps were walking the estate knocking on doors and handing out leaflets so if my experience is anything to go by you may suddenly wake to find you can place orders too.

Edit - I forgot to mention... I'd registered my interest with VM and got an email along the lines of "You'll be the first to know when it's available blah blah blah" but I didn't get anything from them and still haven't so if you've done the same I wouldn't place all your faith in them proactively reaching out to you. I'd simply keep manually checking,
 
Oh yes, I check regularly.
 

  • Gig2 from Virgin Media O2 is the first residential 2Gbps service from any major UK provider to go live for sale, with broadband speeds more than 28 times faster than the UK average.
  • The operator’s latest broadband speed upgrade will revolutionise in-home connectivity and help to power future technologies from AI to immersive and cloud gaming.
  • Gig2 uses XGS-PON technology across a full fibre network thanks to Virgin Media O2’s partnership with nexfibre. This technology has the capability to support 10Gbps speeds in future.
  • Virgin Media O2 is also introducing symmetrical download and upload speeds on its full fibre footprint across all product tiers – the first major UK provider to offer this as an optional add-on.
  • Initially available across the nexfibre network, approaching 1 million premises at launch, customers in towns and cities across the UK including London, Cardiff, Milton Keynes, Sheffield, Manchester and Glasgow will be the first to benefit.

I'm conscious some users have been trialling this but it looks like it's now, or imminently, commercially available to XGSPON VM areas.

Edited to tag in @Mark.J (who may already be aware)
 
Can't wait, will be going symmetric 2Gbps from the off!
 
I'd ordered a few weeks ago and when the engineer booked for yesterday arrived he advised he couldn't perform the installation as nobody had been and blown fibre to the premises. He then made a call to try and arrange for that to be undertaken so he could return later in the day to complete his part, but nobody came. He did ring at various points in the day to see the required work had been undertaken, but it had not.

A neighbour two doors down has had the service installed and there were two cherry pickers at the end of the drive for about two hours on the 30th of January, but they only seemed to connect one cable. I'm not sure why nobody came here to do them both at the same time.

I've phoned the Pre-Installation team today who advised they have requested someone come to do the work tomorrow so I'll see what transpires.
 
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Ah that is a shame, Gareth, hopefully it gets sorted soon.

When I ordered OR FTTP for my Dad, it was 2 weeks out, OR did the prework the very next day so hopefully it was just a blip in the scheduling somewhere.
 
Ah that is a shame, Gareth, hopefully it gets sorted soon.

When I ordered OR FTTP for my Dad, it was 2 weeks out, OR did the prework the very next day so hopefully it was just a blip in the scheduling somewhere.
Thanks.

I did receive another text earlier asking me to complete the boundary survey again so I decided to go on Twitter/X for the first time in about 15 years to ask Virgin Media what was going on. I don't think they're aware how the survey works as they seem to think it's a bespoke link for the account even though it goes through the same questions/answers when you type the url in manually on another device or PC (unless Virgin Media don't have any other people called Gareth using their service). I'll see if anyone comes tomorrow, but am now very skeptical.

I did actually phone prior for a site survery to make sure there would be no issues running the fibre from the box to a location at the back of the house. The Virgin Media engineer who came said this would be no issue and talked me through how they'd do it (running it along the gutter to the back). I thought doing this would save everyone wasting their time on the 6th if it wasn't possible, but this turned out to be the case anyway.
 
I'd ordered a few weeks ago and when the engineer booked for yesterday arrived he advised he couldn't perform the installation as nobody had been and blown fibre to the premises. He then made a call to try and arrange for that to be undertaken so he could return later in the day to complete his part, but nobody came. He did ring at various points in the day to see the required work had been undertaken, but it had not.

A neighbour two doors down has had the service installed and there were two cherry pickers at the end of the drive for about two hours on the 30th of January, but they only seemed to connect one cable. I'm not sure why nobody came here to do them both at the same time.

I've phoned the Pre-Installation team today who advised they have requested someone come to do the work tomorrow so I'll see what transpires.
Unsure whos doing your work but Nexfibre are pretty good, and really nice to chat to, if its booked for the next day it'll happen then.
Thanks.

I did receive another text earlier asking me to complete the boundary survey again so I decided to go on Twitter/X for the first time in about 15 years to ask Virgin Media what was going on. I don't think they're aware how the survey works as they seem to think it's a bespoke link for the account even though it goes through the same questions/answers when you type the url in manually on another device or PC (unless Virgin Media don't have any other people called Gareth using their service). I'll see if anyone comes tomorrow, but am now very skeptical.

I did actually phone prior for a site survery to make sure there would be no issues running the fibre from the box to a location at the back of the house. The Virgin Media engineer who came said this would be no issue and talked me through how they'd do it (running it along the gutter to the back). I thought doing this would save everyone wasting their time on the 6th if it wasn't possible, but this turned out to be the case anyway.
I had one too and mine was installed via PIA ( zero ground works ) just go through the boundary thing and allow/accept it all :P
 
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