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Re: 152MB upgrade

Might have to do that, what router would people recommend getting?

Re: 152MB upgrade

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Originally Posted by telfordcable (Post 35711351)

FTTC 80/20 are far better than Virgin Media 152/12 because:

Network is uncongestion on BT Wholesale

Here is my wonderful FTTC speed since February live

Guess you forgot that you had congestion on BT Wholesale shortly after you signed up and went live...

EDIT: Here, as you appear to have forgotten let me help you out: http://community.plus.net/forum/inde...,124744.0.html

Re: 152MB upgrade

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35711424)

Lolllllllll, you did what did a few months ago. He spent ages dissing VM and going on about how bad they are and that is why he left and moved to openreach (cant remember the isp, i think it was plusnet) and he posted pics of his cpe and everything. A couple of weeks later he said he was back with VM which nobody believed so spent a good 30 mins going through all of his posts a copying the relevant bits about congestion, bad customer service, poor speed and he is never never never going back to VM. I am on my phone atm but i'll try and find it later when i get back. It is hilarious.

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35711417)

Might have to do that, what router would people recommend getting?

As a rule of thumb i would look at Linksys routers. I have been using them for donkeys years and never had a problem with any of them. They are feature packed, reliable and stable. The whole of a router is that they stay in the background and dont require any user intervention and Linksys do just that. I cant post any links atm because i am on my phone but i would look at the Ea2700 if you just want a normal router or if you want one with a usb port so you can use it as a file server or print server you need to look at the ea3500 (or whatever the latest model is). The last time i looked the ea2700 was £50 on amazon.

Re: 152MB upgrade

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35711424)

Yes but that was down to BT port but it was resolved after 2 weeks as thanks to Plusnet for telling BT to check for congestion and got it fixed. Virgin Media doesn't care if u are congestion or not. Plusnet & BT does care!

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Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35711378)

so wonderful that you supposedly dropped it and went back to VM and now it looks like you have dropped VM and gone back to fttc. It's amazing though, you stated those reasons for leaving VM last time yet you went back to them after a few weeks as if a miracle had happened but now you are complaining about the same problems. I don't believe it though because if you did actually go back to VM last time, it was more than a couple of months ago which means you are can't get out of your contract and are still with them. Either that or you never went back to them to start off with and you have been on fttc from the start.

Queue the bs and convoluted answers.............

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it will do the job just fine, the main difference between shub 1 and shub 2 is the quality (stability and range) of the wifi.

Here is proof that I left Virgin Media last February. Never went back again. Virgin Media sent me a cheque of £72 money back that they owed me. Also, a superhub 2 was sent back to virgin media too.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/07/36.jpg

Re: 152MB upgrade

Do you enter a new 12 month contract for your broadband when you do the upgrade from 120Mb to 152Mb broadband that is available in the My Virginmedia section of the website?

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Not sure about the BB itself, I entered into a new one because I changed to the Big Kahuna package.

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Yes I left VM too bcoz I are congestion.

On another note,
https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/07/38.jpg

Re: 152MB upgrade

WHAT? I do wish people wouldn't use text speak when posting on Forums.

Re: 152MB upgrade

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Originally Posted by Didzi (Post 35711469)

Do you enter a new 12 month contract for your broadband when you do the upgrade from 120Mb to 152Mb broadband that is available in the My Virginmedia section of the website?

I did take 12 months contract but they let me off and no penalty charge after manager agreed to let me go. :D

Re: 152MB upgrade

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Originally Posted by telfordcable (Post 35711444)

Ya, they do now, only took public naming and shaming.

VM obviously do care, however it can be a more substantial job than simply reconfiguring a switch or adding a new port to a port channel.

Where BT have had to introduce new hardware due to a shortage of ports or hardware being saturated it's been a somewhat longer process.

Not that either of them are angels, but to say the BT Wholesale network is completely uncongested is no good. Exchanges and groups of them are constantly going into and out of congestion states.

http://community.plus.net/exchange-information/
http://revk.www.me.uk/2014/02/bt-21c...r-purpose.html

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Get ready to laugh your ass off, I have found the original thread

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...erhub-2-a.html

I have also found another thread where he was ranting and raving about VM but I have got time to go through it all and copy and paste it.

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Originally Posted by telfordcable (Post 35711444)

Here is proof that I left Virgin Media last February. Never went back again

Really, because I distinctly remember that a week or so after the thread above you claimed you cancelled BT and went back to VM and we were all taking the pee out of you for it because you said you would never go back again. You went off and one and the only thing you said was that you have already explained your reasons for returning in another thread and weren't going to repeat yourself. You need to keep your stories straight. I suggest writing everything down in a diary with dates then you can remember what lie you told to whom.

Re: 152MB upgrade

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Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35711585)

Get ready to laugh your ass off, I have found the original thread

Seriously.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2014/07/38.jpg

Re: 152MB upgrade

I didnt want Igni to miss out on what was going on, he was in communicado at the time

Re: 152MB upgrade

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Originally Posted by MarkC1984 (Post 35711473)

Not sure about the BB itself, I entered into a new one because I changed to the Big Kahuna package.

Same here.

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Originally Posted by General Maximus (Post 35711598)

I didnt want Igni to miss out on what was going on, he was in communicado at the time

Oh I'm sure he was communicado. Probably had better things to do though :dozey: