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too right, cant wait to switch to VM. They're in the process of digging near me to lay cable.
Virgin Media are spot on for their internet, especially some of the packages they offer compared to BT and other various ISP's
Virgin Media are spot on for their internet, especially some of the packages they offer compared to BT and other various ISP's
Yeah I had the mwhen i was a student and 50mbit was their top service, and i was amazed that 50meg meant 50meg, none of this 'up to' shit. Now I have 70meg vdsl but I only get around 40-50 max. 200meg is going to be insane, and wont cost me any more than i currently pay really.
but be forewarned.
only real bad experience I had with VM was when we took the mick to see just how unlimited 'unlimited' really is. Turns out at around 950gig uploaded / 900 Gig downlaoded in 30 days, they will investigate the usage. I explained that in a student house of 6 people, 5 gig a day wasnt a whole lot and they turned it back on. Guy did congratulate me for transferring more upstream than down.I have noticed issue's with Virgin (I am not a customer) that have forever put me off. Their aggressive packet shaping and throttling regardless of availability and they claimed that the package that used was not throttled in any way on their site, so basically lying through their teeth.
Although This is based on connections down south, up north it may be less/none of an issue, as @CMO Marc Smith has not experienced similar issues.
Also the tie in to their hardware :/ I can understand why, but I don't see why you're not allowed to just use CE certified hardware, Vodafone are just as bad on this score (along with atrocious internet service and technical support).
Case in point, Somebody wanted to watch my stream so i used twitch (although mainstream twitchers were fine), it was constantly buffering on their connection (even on 480p without audio) anybody on BT or otherwise had no issue. They switch to Steam Streaming (it was fresh out of the box 1 month or so) and they were able to watch a 1080p stream without any issue's, and that if they downloaded any large games during peak hours their speed was cut in half, and if they continued it was cut to a quarter speed.
So if you don't mind Virgin deciding what content you can watch if they determine it as important enough go enjoy
In regards to the complaint from OP about outage, this can happen to any provider though, another case in point, two of my mates lost connection at the same time to R6S and TS for 10 min last night, both are on BT.
Lol Did a terrabyte over a weekend at the LANBQ can't remember what the upload was, but it wasn't a terrabyte.
