UPC/Virgin equipment

beauf

...
5.5 We will make every effort to site the
Equipment in a location of your
choice and will endeavour to comply
with any reasonable requests you
may have regarding the routing of
cables. However in some instances
this may not be possible, for
technical and other reasons, and if
this is the case then we will indicate
to you what alternative
arrangements for cable routing (if
any) we can make. If, for any reason,
we are unable to route the cable or
you do not accept our routing
proposal, this Agreement shall
terminate, provided that where the
cabling relates only to the provision
of certain Services, this Agreement
may, at our option, terminate in
relation to those Services only....

This seems to be opt out clause. Though might be difficult getting services in the future if you do....

The tax man

That equipment is very old and may very well be inactive. All equipment in that picture has been out of network spec for well over a decade now.
Still some network equipment out there that gets forgotten about or left in place after it's been deactivated.

Virgin have a forum in the "Talk to" section on Boards. Might be a less painful option than 1908 to get someone out to your house to confirm if in use or not, removal etc.

beauf

What do those boxes do...

tapfit2004

I was wiring a building in Dublin city centre about 12 years ago. There was a plug top plugged into a socket in one of the rooms we were working in and the wire was going out through the window which was left ajar.

I thought it was feeding a flood light and that it was done as a temporary job but when I traced the wire I found that it was feeding a little enclosure with a circuit breaker in it which in turn fed a booster of some sort for UPC. I asked the person who ran the building how long that it had been left like that and he said he'd been there 14 years and it was done before he arrived.

I told him that it couldn't be left like it was and that there needed to be a permanent job done. I also said that at a minimum there should be a check meter put on it and that the electricity cost should be covered but that after at least 14 years of free power UPC would more than likely provide free broadband and TV through the building.

We tried to make contact with someone in UPC who knew what we were talking about but got no joy so one morning I plugged it out. Around lunchtime 2 fellas appeared from UPC and were a bit unhappy and a bit aggressive when I told them that I plugged it out. Then I told them that I wouldn't plug it back in because it was a botch job, their attitude changed and they promised anything to get it back on. There was about a square mile of the city without broadband or TV including a couple of top end hotels.

The fella running the building asked me to get them going and to make provision for a more permanent job. He had them over a barrel but he didn't want to push things. In the end we wired a proper supply out to it whicn UPC weren't billed for, there was no meter put on it so they continued to get free power and up until I left the job, a few months later, UPC hadn't offered them free TV or broadband or anything.

From what I have seen working around Dublin UPC/NTL/RTE Relays (and the other few names in between) did a lot of temporary jobs which wouldn't be allowed these days and if its pointed out to them (and the equipment is important enough) they will be very facilitating. The standard offer years ago was free analogue TV but now that i is gone I don't know what they offer.

If you push them too much they will remove everything and you will get nothing from them. I saw it happen in one house and the owner now can't get broadband from them because he made them remove the wire from the front of his house. After seeing what they did in the city centre building I wouldn't be their biggest fan but I think they are reasonable enough to deal with when you are ok with them.

Rosser

Has anyone heard anything about the long waited Virgin STB, Horizon is just a farce at this stage.

I don’t want to move to sky while keeping Virgin for broadband but they’re making it inevitable

icdg

Thats a question worth a different thread, I think. We don’t drag up old threads and certainly not to change the subject