Category: Broadband

Virgin Media has published a blog that attempts to help people, but The Mirror has run with a version saying test your upload with your firewall off. While this is something to try if you know the risks, as a blanket statement, this is dangerous advice.

We are seeing reports of a recent firmware update to Virgin Media Hub 5 routers causing 2.5Gbps ports to drop to 1Gbps.

Area 3 which Ofcom expects to be the part of the UK with less competition and where the vast majority of Project Gigabit contracts will deliver caught Area 2 up this month with a bigger proportion of the Gigabit roll-outs.

£60 million of funding has been awarded to Quickline to deliver Gigabit capable services to 28,000 premises in West Yorkshire and parts of North Yorkshire.

Some 4,400 premises in the eastern part of Gloucestershire are set to benefit from Gigaclear full-fibre in a £16 million contract.

The vast bulk of the 1 million premises in the announcement by Government is not via the big Project Gigabit contracts, in fact the bulk will be from the old Superfast contracts and gainshare extensions..

An estate that has Virgin Media part-fibre and Openreach VDSL2 services is trying to stop brsk rolling out its full-fibre service to the estate.

The company TOTSco formed to act as the intermediary for a massive upgrade to broadband switching in the UK has now launched its production environment and full support services.

The jump from 62% to 63% UK full-fibre coverage has taken us 18 days to discover and map. If the rate of change from the last nine months continues we expect to be reporting on 85% full-fibre coverage in July 2025.

Homes that already have full-fibre via the Openreach network appear to be upset about works to tidy up paths and are complaining about ruined views from windows in their properties.