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Virgin Media Business Voom 3 review

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Background So before diving into this some background: I'm a nerd. A dweeb. A geek. My first campaign for better Internet connectivity to my local area was in 2000 and was to try and obtain a deployment of ADSL . In 2012-13 I was involved in getting FTTC delivered to a cabinet in suburban Leeds. There was a feeling in BT that the cabinet didn't serve enough premises to make it economically viable which was incorrect, they were using outdated information. That cabinet is now served by 2 x Huawei 288 FTTC cabinets, one of which has an extension on it to bring its capacity to 384 lines. At that time we also reached out to Virgin Media who looked into the costs of the build and planning, but went no further as they were not looking to extend their network at the time. They actually began building in the Middleton suburb of Leeds in 2015, reaching our property in September of 2017. My experience with Internet service provider networks is a couple of years with the cable comp