I am now a Virgin

[wizer]

Today we had Virgin installed. My original plan was to get rid of all the sky services we had (HD+, Telephone, Broadband = £45 + £15 to BT) and just get Virgin broadband installed. But when I called they chucked in the TV for the same price! So not only have I saved about £30 a month, but I've gained over 7mb of broadband speed!!! I should have done this months ago!

I will keep an eye on it, I've heard people have problems with Virgin, but for now it's working great, even through HomePlugs and Wireless!

I'm sure it'll only be a matter of weeks and I'll be hankering after 50MB!

 

[Racers]

Oh No... soon all the posts will be wizers no one will get chance to comment :wink: :wink:


Pete

 

[chingerspy]

It has been a decent service for many years. I've been having the odd niggle this year though. I think there may be routing or contention issues but I've never had an appropriate response.

I wish I had a screenshot of speedtest.net from the weekend. I just wanted to chill and watch Youtube vids. They were really slow to buffer (as in not buffering at all) so ran a couple.

I had d/l : 70 - 120Mb/s and upload 0.6Mb/s lol. I still couldn't get Mr. Lie-Nielson's or other Youtube vids to stream well though

 

[Racers]

Pete

 

[chingerspy]

lol nice upload! Must be a leased line surely?

Just got d/l 92Mb/s at work but failed on upload due to our proxy 100Mbit connection here so pretty good seeing as the internet source for me is 7 miles away across the 100Mbit WAN.

 

[Racers]

I got a couple of 30/30 but that was the fastest upload, not bad to say we have several thousand computers on on the network.


Pete

 

[chingerspy]

Same here - a college with about 3000 computers + other gizmos. Getting good speeds at the mo due to Easter break

 

[Racers]

Janet is good when the kids are away :wink:


Pete

 

[lurker]

I'm happy to report .............that the contents of this thread are totally & utterly meaningless to me.

 

[Chris Knight]

The string is very long as well as wet..

 

[mailee]

Me too Lurker, But I am happy with my Virgin broadband had it for years now with no real problems. Well OK Indian call centres! :roll: Bu**ered if know what speeds I get though?? :?

 

[RogerS]

This is mine

 

[RobertMP]

repeated -



which is nonsense...

I have a download speed monitor running and it shows the same maximum speed I've had for ages - 40mb/s . Considering i'm paying for 10mb I'm not complaining.... but its not as fast as these tests say.

 

[Racers]

Hi, RodgerS

You could have used the same font :wink:


Pete

 

[Racers]

Hi, Lurker

JANET= Joint Academic NETwork

Kids = students


Pete

 

[dicktimber]

There you go wizzer....
more cost savings.
If you got rid of all that stuff and the TV, you could put the savings into a pension pot :wink: :wink: :lol: :lol:

All you need realy is dial up, init :lol: :lol:

 

[andycktm]

Got everybody owned on the upload speed :lol:

 

[Ironballs]

Wet piece of string, in the sticks, BT are idiots. Get 5 Live on the phone. Here's mine



Arse

 

[wizer]

Robert, which d/l monitor do you use?

 

[Davon]

I've had Virgin for a few years now no problems

Davon