120M : Virgin Media 150Mb Coming 2014

Dumped Sky and upgraded my M pack to M+ and automatically got the increase to 152 meg with a 12 month contract that I do not mind about seeing as I have no plans to leave VM internet anyway

[Gavin-D]

Upgrade due here between July and September now was July and December

[telfordcable]

My agreement contract have arrive in the post today. This is my proof letter of my 152Meg service with virgin media which I comeback to virgin media last Friday 28th February and took 152Meg offer.

[Kabaal]

If you are telling the truth Telford then that is a ridiculously good deal. Similar to what i got getting the bump to 152mb but i have to pay line rental for the phone so £35.99 per month in total.

I am struggling to understand how a customer who has disconnected their services, went to another provider then went back to the old provider a few weeks later can get a loyalty discount though.

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by Kabaal

If you are telling the truth Telford then that is a ridiculously good deal. Similar to what i got getting the bump to 152mb but i have to pay line rental for the phone so £35.99 per month in total.

I am struggling to understand how a customer who has disconnected their services, went to another provider then went back to the old provider a few weeks later can get a loyalty discount though.

I've always considered them to be exactly the opposite. They are DISloyalty discounts.

It's about time that real loyalty discounts were applied to all customers with continuous custom. Say £5 for 5 years continuous custom, £10 for 10 and £15 for 15......

[telfordcable]

I just been on the phone ask Virgin Media if I could get a discount £5 off for 18 month the same with £9 discount loyalty for 18 months if I willing to agree to 18 months contract with the same price at £23.50 for 18 months. They spoken to a manager about this and the manager had accepted. A letter will be sent in the post in the next couple of days. Getting a nice £14 total discount off for 18 months.


Nice one Virgin Media

[raging bull]

So how do you manage to get any discount then?
Customer for donkey's years, not even a thankyou after nearly 15 years as a cable customer (full time).

[telfordcable]

Originally Posted by raging bull

So how do you manage to get any discount then?
Customer for donkey's years, not even a thankyou after nearly 15 years as a cable customer (full time).

My secret!

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Oh hang on abit.....

BT had told me that I can get 300Mbps BT Infinity now:

[Ignitionnet]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

BT had told me that I can get 300Mbps BT Infinity now:

Some things never change

No you can't, as you well know given you are on the BT Wholesale checker on a regular basis, already have FTTC hence not in a native FTTP area, and are not in an area announced for FTTP on demand.



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Originally Posted by General Maximus

it is basically the same thing. Ether channel is when you tell the router to bond a specific amount of ports so that three 100mbit ports to the same destination are bonded and shown as one 300mbit line. It sounds like you have done the same thing with your wan connections and it certainly looks sweet. All hail Cisco

The problem there is that EtherChannel / LACP only works on layer 2 switched links, it takes a number of layer 2 links and has them use the same MAC address, so no good for balancing Internet connections as the individual links have different IP addresses, taken from my own router:



So I'm running 2 x layer 3 links. The only way they can be bonded is either by using pair bonding at the VDSL layer, obviously not possible if one link is cable, or by using MultiLink PPP, or a P2P VPN to bond the links at a higher level, both of which require the participation of a device or devices at the remote side of the links.

The links are load balanced using per-connection balancing. The router looks at which of the 2 links is most heavily loaded and sends the connection out of the other one.

[telfordcable]

Yes I check on BT Infinity as it say it only support FTTC only (79/9 with 19.9) stupid email from BT say I can get 300Mbps now.

[RobboEdin]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

I just been on the phone ask Virgin Media if I could get a discount £5 off for 18 month the same with £9 discount loyalty for 18 months if I willing to agree to 18 months contract with the same price at £23.50 for 18 months. They spoken to a manager about this and the manager had accepted. A letter will be sent in the post in the next couple of days. Getting a nice £14 total discount off for 18 months.


Nice one Virgin Media

Are you a time traveller or just a liar?

Your previous post in this very thread, only a few posts above, suggests you already have this letter in your hands!!

[telfordcable]

Yes I have a letter in my hands but that old one now. I am now with 18 months contract for just £23.50 for 18 months with £14 discount off for 18 months as the manager had applied it and rebooted my superhub at 152 Meg reset.

U can see my live graph superhub reset itself after 4pm http://www.thinkbroadband.com/ping/s...68777624e.html

[Broken Hope]

Originally Posted by RobboEdin

Are you a time traveller or just a liar?

Your previous post in this very thread, only a few posts above, suggests you already have this letter in your hands!!

Yes but on his letter the £5 discount is only for 6 months, he's somehow managed to get them to apply it for 18 months the same as his other loyalty discount.

[Ignitionnet]

Let's veer this thread away from discussing a single poster's deal...

How is everyone finding their service? Speeds stable?

[Kabaal]

Originally Posted by Ignitionnet

How is everyone finding their service? Speeds stable?

Perfectly. 160/12.4 ish all day and night long. My area has never had any congestion issues and always had max speeds though.