A little tip for Virgin Media

Vlad_Dracul · 16-02-2007, 10:02

Heres a very usefull little tip.

Concentrate more on ensuring the integrity , throughput and uptime of your hardware and network and a little less time and money on sending a constant stream of paperwork through the post telling me virtually nothing. I dont care whos name is over the door, i just want as close as possible to 24/7 high quality throughput on my data connection.

It seems to me that all these companies who are insistant upon streaming television through the internet are actually a threat to the internet. The best place for television is via a sat dish or a tv antenna. I dont want great wadges of data down a data link which may ultimately threaten my basic services such as email,NG and web browsing.

Most of the tv content we have already via sky and terrestrial is trash or repated trash. Cheap television for brainless chavs. We dont need more of it.

Downloads · 16-02-2007, 11:08

I thought the best place for TV was down cable over fibre. I may be wrong though, i'm not a techie.

I don't see America rushing to launch TV over satellite, the companies are all laying new fibre.

RUSTY · 16-02-2007, 14:04

downloads. yep. daughter lives in cincinnati, terrific cable and phone service with lots of deals and `if ` it fails fixed very quickly. sats mostly used out of town.

tweetypie/8 · 18-02-2007, 15:08

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Originally Posted by dooper786

Heres a very usefull little tip.

Concentrate more on ensuring the integrity , throughput and uptime of your hardware and network and a little less time and money on sending a constant stream of paperwork through the post telling me virtually nothing. I dont care whos name is over the door, i just want as close as possible to 24/7 high quality throughput on my data connection.

It seems to me that all these companies who are insistant upon streaming television through the internet are actually a threat to the internet. The best place for television is via a sat dish or a tv antenna. I dont want great wadges of data down a data link which may ultimately threaten my basic services such as email,NG and web browsing.

Most of the tv content we have already via sky and terrestrial is trash or repated trash. Cheap television for brainless chavs. We dont need more of it.

you dont want great wadges of data,i dont want an eysore of a dish stuck on my house

banjo · 18-02-2007, 15:14

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Originally Posted by tweetypie/8

you dont want great wadges of data,i dont want an eysore of a dish stuck on my house

Then use free view or cable TV, no problem, I too cannot see why we need TV eating bandwidth with repeats that are a waste of resources

Richy99 · 20-02-2007, 15:01

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Originally Posted by dooper786

Heres a very usefull little tip.

Concentrate more on ensuring the integrity , throughput and uptime of your hardware and network and a little less time and money on sending a constant stream of paperwork through the post telling me virtually nothing. I dont care whos name is over the door, i just want as close as possible to 24/7 high quality throughput on my data connection.

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they'd probably have more money to spend on the network if people didnt keep calling retentions to get discounts because an incentive to get new customers get things a bit cheaper or fred down the road complained and now gets everything half price and then everyone else wants the same

NTLVictim · 20-02-2007, 15:19

If they were any good, they wouldn't have to offer retentions...

Richy99 · 20-02-2007, 21:35

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Originally Posted by NTLVictim

If they were any good, they wouldn't have to offer retentions...

even if they were performing 100% people would still want things cheaper if new users get an incentive to move to the service and have it slighly cheaper

NTLVictim · 20-02-2007, 22:21

"Want" and "Get " would be very different if they were firing on all cylinders.

lostandconfused · 20-02-2007, 22:57

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Originally Posted by NTLVictim

"Want" and "Get " would be very different if they were firing on all cylinders.

so you can honestly say that even of your services were working perfectly you would be happy to pay more than someone else you knew that was getting the same products? if you can your one of a minority

Anonymouse · 20-02-2007, 23:43

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Originally Posted by banjo

Then use free view or cable TV, no problem, I too cannot see why we need TV eating bandwidth with repeats that are a waste of resources

Oh, it's worse than that; at one point, the powers that be were talking about requiring you to get a TV licence if you watched TV via a PC, or even just because you had the capability of watching TV - never mind whether or not you actually were watching anything.

Well, they can get stuffed. The day I get a licence demand from TVL is the day I cancel my BB subscription and I'll bloody well do without the Internet. Or go back to dialup, as horrifying a prospect as that is.

NTLVictim · 21-02-2007, 09:02

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Originally Posted by lostandconfused

so you can honestly say that even of your services were working perfectly you would be happy to pay more than someone else you knew that was getting the same products? if you can your one of a minority

Someone else wouldn't be getting it cheaper than me if VM were perfect, the price would be the price.

Same way that a can of beans from Tesco costs the same to everyone.