General : Another price rise for stand alone customers?

[NuttehButteh]

If so then it will be due to this new round of price rises I would imagine. and that's fine to me.

[tommy92]

Hi i work for VM.

i do agree the prices rises are not the best.
but compared to other companies its much much cheaper.

£40 for the fastest broadband in the UK?
ok, id happily swap providers with you. i dont live in a cabled area so i have BT Fibre. i currently pay £52 per month with a phoneline. then £68 to sky.

[Synthetic]

I'm moving to a non cabled area next week and will be using an unstable 40/5 FTTC line, I'm considering getting / paying for a second line just so I have (maybe) 80/10

Dropping from my 160/12 Virgin connection. Some would say it is unfair, but what can you do? (other than move)

[General Maximus]

Yeah it's not good. I must admit that being in a cabled/non-cabled area would be a major factor in my decisiin making if i was moving house

[telfordcable]

Originally Posted by Synthetic

I'm moving to a non cabled area next week and will be using an unstable 40/5 FTTC line, I'm considering getting / paying for a second line just so I have (maybe) 80/10

Most isp's say no to bonding FTTC and it will gonna to cost u more!

[General Maximus]

Most isp's say no to eating chocolate while you are using your pc so it is a good job that they don't know we do it.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

Most isp's say no to bonding FTTC and it will gonna to cost u more!

Well yeah, it'll cost a second line rental and broadband subscription.

My ISP doesn't even know I'm load balancing the lines, they have no way to.

Less of the 'S' please. Seems just last week you were on the Plusnet forum claiming to have Virgin Media load balanced with FTTC, and got all upset when it was suggested you were lying as you'd only posted about it on there, and were posting speed tests strangely similar to those that were shown up on here as being from someone else.

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

I heard Virgin Media rolling out 200Mbps from next year.

Will be line up like this:

100/5
152/12
200/12 (yes upload stay the same!)

FTTC still 80/20 no plan for 120/30 yet!

You have made this up. Please kindly stop it. These posts go on Google and will misinform people casually searching.

A new tier will not come with no upload increase. The network upgrades required to increase upload speeds are in progress and there is an aim to beat BT in both directions.

[telfordcable]

Maybe I suggest to post forum with PGP Key, so u cannot read it!

[Synthetic]

When I said paying for a second line I did mean 2x line rental + broadband costs which I worked out would cost me around £70/m for "up to" 80/10. Then there's the cost of the load balancing router as software balancing is no use to me I need the whole network to use it.

Alternatively Openreach could make sure their engineers can be bothered to do the job they were sent to do, to actually fix my line (whole other story)

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

Well yeah, it'll cost a second line rental and broadband subscription.

My ISP doesn't even know I'm load balancing the lines, they have no way to.

Less of the 'S' please. Seems just last week you were on the Plusnet forum claiming to have Virgin Media load balanced with FTTC, and got all upset when it was suggested you were lying as you'd only posted about it on there, and were posting speed tests strangely similar to those that were shown up on here as being from someone else

thanks, that is exactly what I wanted to say but I have given up trying to distinguish fact from fiction for him and I always get moaned at for mocking and bullying him which is why I just try to come up with useless rubbish now hoping that he will realise what his posts come across like.

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

Maybe I suggest to post forum with PGP Key, so u cannot read it!

Given no-one else could read it either without the relevant key that'd be just fine.

Another option obviously is to stop making things up and posting them in public forums as facts.

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Originally Posted by Synthetic

When I said paying for a second line I did mean 2x line rental + broadband costs which I worked out would cost me around £70/m for "up to" 80/10. Then there's the cost of the load balancing router as software balancing is no use to me I need the whole network to use it.

I use this along with 2 Openreach modems to accomplish that task. It seems to work fine.

[Pauls9]

Originally Posted by NuttehButteh

I watch lots of Telly, but via the internet so no need for a TV sheep - er I mean Licence.

I feel the need to remind people:

Do I need a TV Licence if I only watch programmes online?

It makes no difference how you watch TV whether it's on your laptop, PC or mobile phone or through a digital box, DVD recorder or TV set. If you use any device to watch or record television programmes as they're being shown on TV the law requires you to be covered by a TV Licence. You can buy a TV Licence online.

You will not need a TV Licence to view video clips on the internet as long as what you are viewing is not being shown on TV at the same time as you are viewing it.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/faqs/FAQ95

[Synthetic]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I use this along with 2 Openreach modems to accomplish that task. It seems to work fine.

Thanks for the recommendation, that one actually came up when I was looking the other day, looks like it'd be worth the investment and it's probably the one I'll go for if I do decide to do the balancing

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

I use this along with 2 Openreach modems to accomplish that task. It seems to work fine.

that is so sweet. I wish I had the money for two openreach lines and two VM lines to come into the house. A 464/64 connection be amazing.

[Synthetic]

I guess you could get as many FTTC lines as you wanted (until you ran out of spare pairs) or do Openreach have a limit per property?

Still, 1x VM at 160/12 and 2x 80/20 FTTC lines would be nice (if you had the money)