Virgin media price increase

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

That would be a discussion you would have to have at the time.

Legally, Virgin would expect you to continue to pay for Broadband at the appropriate standalone rate

Thats what I expect to happen it seems basic common sense.

[jonmarriott]

Originally Posted by jb66

But inflation is 4%..... not a 'hike' at all, just keeping costs in line.

I've had a pay rise every year for the last 9 years (not sure what that has to do with anything)

My point being that on relatively fixed pay something has to give after a while... Many others on pay freezes will feel the pinch this year, I'm sure.

The January increase was VAT beyond anyone's control.

Their last price increase was April 1, so why two increases in 4 months? That is a hike not just "keeping costs in line". A 'me too' increase led by BT isn't justified if their cost structures are different and smacks of a cozy cartel.

Effectively what VM are attempting is to put through two increases a year and hoping people won't associate them.

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

Thats what I expect to happen it seems basic common sense.

I will swap my phone over to Sky and wait untill the LLU my exchange(they say this summer).

Then I can use Anytime+ although I might be better of without it as they're giving me a big discount as I'm not impressed I can't have anytime+.

OOPs meant to edit not quote myself.

[iluvabargain2011]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

I pay £37 for phone and BB after I cancel I will also drop my BB to 10Mb and pay £21ish.

But my phone bill will drop from and average of £50 to around £20 like it used to be on talktalk. VM's phone is day light robbery.

Was going to say if your paying £21 a month for 10mb on Virgin then I would be looking at LLU ADSL Providers and bearing in mind how far you are from the exchange.

I paid £11.25 a month with Sky (£12.25 with price increase now), 17mb broadband @ £7.50 a month, anytime calls at £5.00..

I should imagine your still under contract with Virgin by the sounds of things though

Why not get a VOIP adaptor like I`ve got? use sipgate at 1.4p per minute and just connect it to your normal landline phones, works great!!

[jb66]

He doesn't have the £7.50 sky broadband in his area

[iluvabargain2011]

Originally Posted by jb66

He doesn't have the £7.50 sky broadband in his area

Yes I now realise as he must of commented whilst I was typing my reply

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Have they not offered Sky connect at a decent rate? this is normally a sign they are unbunddling your exchange soon...

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by iluvabargain2011

Was going to say if your paying £21 a month for 10mb on Virgin then I would be looking at LLU ADSL Providers and bearing in mind how far you are from the exchange.

I paid £11.25 a month with Sky (£12.25 with price increase now), 17mb broadband @ £7.50 a month, anytime calls at £5.00..

I should imagine your still under contract with Virgin by the sounds of things though

Why not get a VOIP adaptor like I`ve got? use sipgate at 1.4p per minute and just connect it to your normal landline phones, works great!!

I'm happy to wait for sky to unbundle me and let my contract run out with VM whilst paying them as little as possible.

[iluvabargain2011]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

I'm happy to wait for sky to unbundle me and let my contract run out with VM whilst paying them as little as possible.

Don`t blame you really, I couldn`t fault Sky`s LLU, it was constant full speed. If it wasn`t for the time it takes to sort a BT line out for Sky Takeover (at least 2 weeks so bear this in mind when you switch, make sure you have an overlap with your Virgin Services) I would of gone back with them (I moved)..

But then do I regret that VIrgin Broadband? Not really as pings are better (no fastpath on Sky) and we host more games on our Xbox`s

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by iluvabargain2011

Don`t blame you really, I couldn`t fault Sky`s LLU, it was constant full speed. If it wasn`t for the time it takes to sort a BT line out for Sky Takeover (at least 2 weeks so bear this in mind when you switch, make sure you have an overlap with your Virgin Services) I would of gone back with them (I moved)..

But then do I regret that VIrgin Broadband? Not really as pings are better (no fastpath on Sky) and we host more games on our Xbox`s

Yeah but at the moment on VM getting host is a bad thing, it becomes almost unplayable. VM no its a problem with the p2p management but are not interested.

Trust me your pings are only low to pingtest or speedtest. On talktalk with fastpath enabled I and a 6db line I averaged a 10m/s ping to pingtest.net. I'm lucky to see less than 18 on VM.

Go on blackops select online then go>options>press the back button>bandwith reading...On 50Mb after 5pm it averages 3000k in the daytime before 4:30pm it hits 10000k it maximum.

Talktalk upto 24mb (actually got 12) it hits 10000k 24/7. I would love to see what the upload reading is on blackops via VM..

[iluvabargain2011]

About 17ms is my average, sky it was 35-40ms at the best of times :/ On MW2 my green bar was only 2-4 and hardly ever hosted

Note to VMTech:- leave prots 88 and 3074 alone from traffic management lol

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by iluvabargain2011

Don`t blame you really, I couldn`t fault Sky`s LLU, it was constant full speed. If it wasn`t for the time it takes to sort a BT line out for Sky Takeover (at least 2 weeks so bear this in mind when you switch, make sure you have an overlap with your Virgin Services) I would of gone back with them (I moved)..

But then do I regret that VIrgin Broadband? Not really as pings are better (no fastpath on Sky) and we host more games on our Xbox`s

Halo reach actually gives a BANDWIDTH WARNING lol...on 50mb..never had that on ADSL.

[iluvabargain2011]

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

Halo reach actually gives a BANDWIDTH WARNING lol...on 50mb..never had that on ADSL.

Wow that is poor on 2 counts, 1st of all the bandwidth warning, 2nd owning and playing that game

[Charliedontsurf]

Originally Posted by iluvabargain2011

Wow that is poor on 2 counts, 1st of all the bandwidth warning, 2nd owning and playing that game

Well were going offtopic now but!!

Next time you're on blackops(if you have it) go to the screen where it has "store" as one of the options and hit the "options"

Whilst in options hit the back button on your controler. From there you will see a bandwidth reading(it might say ,not ready, at first) but after a few seconds it will give you a reading.

It doesnt go any higher then 10000k but it should ALWAYS read 10000k on a 500000k connection. But you'll see sometimes it will drop to 1000k or around 1Mb.

Then go to speedtest and you'll see you still get 50Mb-proof indeed that VM throttle xboxlive.

[treeman]

hi,

i have virgin media phone line and 10meg bb, i took out an 18month contract for both,i have about 12 months left, can someone confirm if i am able to cancel my phone line free of charge and transfer my phone line too bt because off the proposed price increase?

cheers,

treeman

Originally Posted by Charliedontsurf

Well were going offtopic now but!!

Next time you're on blackops(if you have it) go to the screen where it has "store" as one of the options and hit the "options"

Whilst in options hit the back button on your controler. From there you will see a bandwidth reading(it might say ,not ready, at first) but after a few seconds it will give you a reading.

It doesnt go any higher then 10000k but it should ALWAYS read 10000k on a 500000k connection. But you'll see sometimes it will drop to 1000k or around 1Mb.

Then go to speedtest and you'll see you still get 50Mb-proof indeed that VM throttle xboxlive.

[Arthurgray50@blu]

I think the time to worry is if they put a price on HD channels, As they must be considering this.

Sky inceases there price Sept / Oct and it is only a couple of quid and to be quite honest, that is reasonable conisdering the amount of channel they supply.