Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

Not in the biblical sense, hopefully......:D

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

lol....if only you knew.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

What makes you think I cannot still help anyone here?

Thankfully not:D:D:D

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

I think its you that needs to CHILL


End of the day the customer has been given an option, They have the choice to take whats on offer or phone back and hope they get a better offer or move providers. So instead of everyone trying to win points of each other try HELPING the OP

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

Its a good deal, other isp costs don't tent to include the price of line rental; and it's very rare to get close to advertised speeds on DSL

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e.g. on B.T. We used to pay £28.00 for Option 3 up to 20 mb DSL (only isp available in the area i used to live) then £10 line rental ontop of that. £38 total

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/89.png

That is my speedtest result just before moving to virgin

Virgin media up to 50 MB £25 a month; £12.50 line rental £37.50

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2011/05/90.png
*edited so both speedtests are on the same server for reference

Now seriously. which one looks better value now. virgin media is down right the best isp in england.

torrents ive seen transfer at 6.2 MB/s any time of the day people complain about virgin limiting p2p; but i have not hd this at all on virgin, on BT a torrent would max out at 64 Kb/s

Your line speed on dsl is determined by so many factors most of which are not controllable by your isp (unless you are with BT; for example and then they charge you call out fees) so your line speed can suffer.

The dreaded "10 day settling in" on dsl, where you get high speed and then suddenly see your internet speed plummet as an automated system decides your phoneline is too poor quality.


Customer services on Virgin; while they may be based in india the people are understandable and polite, unlike tiscali, AOL, BT which we have had in the past.


People on virgin who complain about there speeds or prices who have never been with an isp other then virgin before will be in for a big shock when they see what else is up for offer.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

You get 50Mb down and 4.60 up, I average 38 down and 8 up. As upload is more important to me then for me BT is better. That's just my needs not everyone elses.

At the end of this year BT are going to be doulbling the speeds obviously to compete with VM's 100Mb offering.

Be are currently rated the best ISP by the ISPA.

Horses for courses.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

I think your post would be more useful in the "OTHER ISP" section or another forum.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

As I was replying to a post by TJS in this thread it would be a bit pointless putting it elsewhere.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

Oh ok. but by the time BT are offering 100/10 vm Will be rollng out 200/20. Virginmedia is an outstanding service through and through.

They may suffer problems due to being at the cutting edge in the UK but atleast they try.Oh and im a real life VM CUSTOMER ;)

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

And yours in "How to make friends and influence people" :LOL:

I have never put a user on ignore until the other week and that was telford cable but like buses when you want one 2 come along at the same time and i now have 2 on ignore ;)

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

At no time have I said VM are a bad ISP!

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

Wahooo we agree. Virginmedia are a good ISP.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

OK then thanks for all the replies i can't be bothered to go another 5 rounds with their customer service.

i've had a good look round and £21 is't that bad for unlimited DL etc..I just don't see why they should charge £21 for just broadband when you can have all 3 services for £30 or whatever. Same cable and all that.

Thanks again.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

And?

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That's due to bundle discounts.

Re: Broadband pricing rant.
 

Well dont forget VM upto 10Mb is probably very very close to 10Mb. Bt upto 10mb may well be 1mb.

Also if you have 10Mba nd phone its around £25 so thats a pretty good deal for unlimited 10mb which will probably be atleast 8.5mb.