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Sirius 02-08-2011 18:05
Re: Was 'Stop The Broadband Con' Campaign a Con?
 
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Originally Posted by driz (Post 35282109)
By this reasoning, back when people were using dialup or ISDN it could have been marketed as 'fibre internet' because the entire backbone at that point was quite likely fibre.

The last mile matters. HFC has different performance characteristics to FTTH. Virgin's last mile is not fibre. They shouldn't be able to call it such.

For what it's worth, I'm also very annoyed by BT's VDSL2 (and resellers) being marketed as fibre. It's also clearly not.



If/when Virgin start actually running fibre to people's homes then of course I'm not going to say the same thing... because it wouldn't be true? It'd be brilliant if they did this on a broader scale!

Hangon, I just googled this and it's 1.5gb down and 150meg up, which sounds suspiciously like massive amounts of channel bonding on DOCSIS3? Prossibly not fibre.
VM are about to try fibre directly to the home but we are as yet not allowed to say where :)

Gary L 02-08-2011 18:57
Re: Was 'Stop The Broadband Con' Campaign a Con?
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sirius (Post 35282123)
VM are about to try fibre directly to the home but we are as yet not allowed to say where :)
In India probably.

Sirius 02-08-2011 19:02
Re: Was 'Stop The Broadband Con' Campaign a Con?
 
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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35282154)
In India probably.
Showing your lack of intelligence again Gary its in Telford cables house ;)

Gary L 02-08-2011 19:07
Re: ASA bans 'Stop the Broadband Con' campaign
 
I knew you'd talk. you can't be trusted :)

damien c 02-08-2011 20:19
Re: ASA bans 'Stop the Broadband Con' campaign
 
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Originally Posted by Gary L (Post 35282157)
I knew you'd talk. you can't be trusted :)
The trial that was googled was I found out done on copper, where as the other one that is mentioned is actually on Fibre.

As for saying Sirius can't be trusted I think you need to think again especially considering he does know what he is on about.

I don't know you so I can't comment about you and I won't but I do know Sirius and believe me, when I say he can be trusted unless you know of some reason why he can't that I don't?

Sirius 02-08-2011 20:43
Re: ASA bans 'Stop the Broadband Con' campaign
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by damien c (Post 35282204)
The trial that was googled was I found out done on copper, where as the other one that is mentioned is actually on Fibre.

As for saying Sirius can't be trusted I think you need to think again especially considering he does know what he is on about.

I don't know you so I can't comment about you and I won't but I do know Sirius and believe me, when I say he can be trusted unless you know of some reason why he can't that I don't?
Damien Gary was joking m8

cook1984 02-08-2011 21:07
Re: ASA bans 'Stop the Broadband Con' campaign
 
If Virgin are so keen to stop the broadband con then they should start by reducing my bill. I don't get the speed I pay for, and when I want to watch iPlayer or YouTube they stutter and buffer like mad. They work on Vodafone 3G so it is not a site problem, it is a Virgin problem.

Either deliver what I pay for or give me some of my money back. Until they do that they can shut up about other ISPs conning their customers.

damien c 02-08-2011 21:27
Re: ASA bans 'Stop the Broadband Con' campaign
 
Well I don't get the speed I pay for considering it says up to 50mb but I only get 48.5mb so I should have mine reduced as well.

Are you on Virgin's ADSL because if you are then that is the same as BT etc where you get a lower speed because of, distance and also the age old cable they still have around the country.

If you are on the normal cabled connection have you ever thought that your area might be oversubscribed, which if that is the case then when they have finished some of the work I have heard about, then that should be resolved.

As for the Youtube etc can I just ask do you happen to have VLC installed on your pc as when I had VLC installed I couldn't, stream video's from any site on the net but as soon as I took off VLC they worked without a problem.


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