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Old 18-01-2012, 13:23   #1079
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Re: Virgin Media to Double Broadband Speed

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Originally Posted by virginruinedntl View Post
yeah, the reliability over the past 3 days has been hurredous, countless websites not working, internet connecting dying for 45mins at midnight yesterday, its been very frustrating. I reckon VM don't want to pay the ££ to solve the capacity problems. Surely it must be simple to upgrade to networking equipment and change some settings?
If it was simple, don't you think Virgin would have done it by now?
Yeah, there are plenty of instances where customers aren't getting the service they pay for - I get that, I understand that and Virgin should (at least partially) refund those customers.

However, it's not a simple case of plugging in some new equipment or twiddling some settings, there's quite a bit more to it than that. Sometimes entire new swathes of Fibre will need to be laid, which is expensive and sometimes requires planning permission from local councils - there's a real issue with delays there. There's lots of reasons why upgrades can take weeks or months to happen - expense is just one part of it.

Anyway, I didn't notice last night's outage but I don't use Virgin's DNS - I suggest people use OpenDNS or Google's DNS (I use both).
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