Virgin Media

[=98=]

Re: Virgin Media

well u guys need to get cool like us in the US and have no throttling over here lol

I hope you're being sarcastic. The US is a lot, lot worse for throttling. Comcast got taken to court recently for doing it!

[Trevortt]

Re: Virgin Media

They told me it would be fixed that weekend... but it wasnt so i called again and they told me the repairs had been postponed indefinately and i was like what the hell do you mean indefinately we are paying for internet and getting a quarter of the stated speed near enough all day!

Maybe you have not read your contract properly but for example you are on a UP TO 10Mb connection does not mean you will get 10Mb, hence the UP TO word.

[=98=]

Re: Virgin Media

At home i am on a "up to" 8mb/s line, but our local exchange only supports up to 6mb/s

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: Virgin Media

Maybe you have not read your contract properly but for example you are on a UP TO 10Mb connection does not mean you will get 10Mb, hence the UP TO word.

I live pretty close to the exchange and we usually got like 1.8 - 1.9 whearas then we were getting 0.2-0.5... im not super fussy about it all if we got anywhere between 1.2 and 2 during the day i would have been happy but the speeds we where getting where insane.

Anyway the techy came and fiddled today, think he replaced an old equalizer so il see how it fares

[Andrew[XI]]

Re: Virgin Media

I hope you're being sarcastic. The US is a lot, lot worse for throttling. Comcast got taken to court recently for doing it!

Well it must of been heavy downloaders that took them to court cause i have never had a throttling issue.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: Virgin Media

Woot for AOL they have ****e customer support but it never goes down and I have great speeds and no limits/throtteling!

I think....

[[GCA]Tim270]

Re: Virgin Media

Yea but you have to suffer the horrible ui/login, I just change ISP each time my contract runs out as most can offer your deals for coming to them for the first time. Talk Talk and Eclipse are some of the best I have had yet (Eclipse is a bit pricey).

[Trevortt]

Re: Virgin Media

BeThere is supposed to be the best for ADSL2

[=98=]

Re: Virgin Media

That's who i'm with. BeThere Unlimited 24mb/s.

Best connection ever.

[Hellsent 2.0]

Re: Virgin Media

Yea but you have to suffer the horrible ui/login, I just change ISP each time my contract runs out as most can offer your deals for coming to them for the first time. Talk Talk and Eclipse are some of the best I have had yet (Eclipse is a bit pricey).

No...I dont use the AOL thingy....the only computer in my house that has that is the main PC downstairs which is conencted to the router but you dont have to use it at all...Been about 3 years since I've opened that program...

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: Virgin Media

Well its peak internet time and my pings are 30-50 so im chuffed they have finally pulled their finger out and sorted it.

[Andrew[XI]]

Re: Virgin Media

wp wp.

[CaptainKirk]

Re: Virgin Media

I have a 6mbits/s down line quoted, but it works out to about 7mbits/s most of the time

[Torchwood]

Re: Virgin Media

I've been with VM since they were NTL, and i've always had a good service but i suppose every area is different.

[KillerStickMan]

Re: Virgin Media

I have bellsouth/at&t and for some reason they recently gave us a free upgrade from a 2mb/256kb line to a 6mb/768kb line for free (I think it was a mistake but we don't plan on letting them know that). And they have decent customer service. Then again I have DSL which means you don't usually have to worry about throttling.