Should I quit Virginmedia?
 

Mark McIntyre wrote:

Lobster wrote:

bt.com's postcode speed checker claims 5.5Mb max.

Expect somewhat less than that, then!

On exactly what basis other than the idea came out of your backside ?

Graham

Should I quit Virginmedia?
 

Woody wrote:

The VM broadband feed - no matter others may say - is probably the best
and most reliable on the market. It certainly meets or is very close to
quoted speed at almost all times - which it is guaranteed you will not
get with ADSL.

Uh ?

With VM's 4 meg service I was normally down to 500kbps at peak times.

With an '8 meg' service from Idnet over a BT line I rarely see less than 5
Mbps even at peak times and see peak speeds of 7 Mbps.

Both figures from the speedtester at thinkbroadband.com and Bbmax

You're talking complete and total nonsense about VM's alleged 'great'
broadband. It's actually total ****e.

Graham

Should I quit Virginmedia?
 

Lobster wrote:

Mark McIntyre wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:54:19 +0000, Lobster wrote:

I've been with VM for years now; currently we take TV (XL package)
/phone (talk evening/weekends package alongside several 3rd party
companies via a dialer box)/broadband (L package; 4 Mb) from them at a
total cost of 49.45 GBP/month.

(OP is considering swapping)

However my major concern is that currently I'm very happy what VM
delivers, notably our broadband has hardly ever gone down and works
extremely efficiently. I've hardly ever had to get involved with the
notorious Customer Service, just because I have no need of them.

Why not ditch the TV and phone, and speak to Retentions to get a deal on
the broadband.

Reckon they're likely to do that if I ditch the other stuff at the same
time?

I'd be interested to know what 'target' deal I could expect for what I'm
paying for my current service??

I pay 'half price' for the XL TV and they've given me 9 months worth of free
phone calls too so far (free upgrade to whatver daft name they give that
package) but you have to keep badgering them every 3 or 6 months to renew those
deals.

So I pay £11 for the phone (with free calls - better than your deal) and £10.50
for the TV. That's £21.50. They also ought to offer you the 4 meg broadband for
£4.50. So that would be £26 total instead of £49.45 but expect them to quibble
over offering too many deals.

They seem to rely on people paying list price without querying what's available
to make any money.

Graham

Should I quit Virginmedia?
 

{{{{{Welcome}}}}} wrote:

Woody wrote:

The TV feed is as good picture-wise or better than Sky and it doesn't
pixelate in the rain or snow.


Strange that, I've had satellite since the late 1980s and have lost picture
only a couple of times and that was in extremely heavy rain, not had any
problems with pixalation any other time.

I get regular pixellation and occasional complete loss of picture for seconds at
a time with VM.

Graham

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Woody wrote:

The VM broadband feed - no matter others may say - is probably the best
and most reliable on the market. It certainly meets or is very close to
quoted speed at almost all times - which it is guaranteed you will not
get with ADSL.

Uh ?

With VM's 4 meg service I was normally down to 500kbps at peak times.

With an '8 meg' service from Idnet over a BT line I rarely see less than 5
Mbps even at peak times and see peak speeds of 7 Mbps.

Both figures from the speedtester at thinkbroadband.com and Bbmax

You're talking complete and total nonsense about VM's alleged 'great'
broadband. It's actually total ****e.

Graham

Just because your service was bad with VM doesn't mean everyone elses is as
well.Mine's spot on but,unlike you,i'm not claiming that that means
everyones is.

Should I quit Virginmedia?
 

Daffy Duck wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
Woody wrote:

The VM broadband feed - no matter others may say - is probably the best
and most reliable on the market. It certainly meets or is very close to
quoted speed at almost all times - which it is guaranteed you will not
get with ADSL.

Uh ?

With VM's 4 meg service I was normally down to 500kbps at peak times.

With an '8 meg' service from Idnet over a BT line I rarely see less than 5
Mbps even at peak times and see peak speeds of 7 Mbps.

Both figures from the speedtester at thinkbroadband.com and Bbmax

You're talking complete and total nonsense about VM's alleged 'great'
broadband. It's actually total ****e.

Graham

Just because your service was bad with VM doesn't mean everyone elses is as
well.Mine's spot on but,unlike you,i'm not claiming that that means
everyones is.

Fair enough, but the comments in user groups illustrate that the vast majority of comments about VM are very negative.

You appear to be lucky that you're on infrastructure originally operated by Telewest (Blueyonder) rather than NTL. How long that may give you an advantage is anyone's guess I reckon.

Graham

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Eeyore wrote:
They seem to rely on people paying list price without querying what's
available to make any money.

Well yeah. I was going to ask if you quibbled the price at your local
supermarket or restaurant that you frequented, but then you probably do ;-)

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Eeyore wrote:
Woody wrote:

The VM broadband feed - no matter others may say - is probably the
best and most reliable on the market. It certainly meets or is very
close to quoted speed at almost all times - which it is guaranteed
you will not get with ADSL.

Uh ?

With VM's 4 meg service I was normally down to 500kbps at peak times.

With an '8 meg' service from Idnet over a BT line I rarely see less
than 5 Mbps even at peak times and see peak speeds of 7 Mbps.

Both figures from the speedtester at thinkbroadband.com and Bbmax

You're talking complete and total nonsense about VM's alleged 'great'
broadband. It's actually total ****e.

Graham

Well it didn't take you long, did it. Still holding that grudge against and
positive comments about VM I see :-(

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Should I quit Virginmedia?
 

Uh ?

With VM's 4 meg service I was normally down to 500kbps at peak times.

With an '8 meg' service from Idnet over a BT line I rarely see less than 5
Mbps even at peak times and see peak speeds of 7 Mbps.

Both figures from the speedtester at thinkbroadband.com and Bbmax

You're talking complete and total nonsense about VM's alleged 'great'
broadband. It's actually total ****e.

Graham

I notice that you get quite bad service from VM. But looking at all
the post's that are made by VM customers at the moment it seems that
Virgin Broadband is as good as ADSL. The chance of you getting a good
speed depends on where you live, like ADSL depends on the length and
quality of your line. Put simply if you live in an area where VM have
got a good setup with sufficient backhaul then you will be fine and
enjoy a more relieable and faster connection the possibly on ADSL. But
if you unlucky then you will suffer like mad with them. There are
somepeople who get the full 20meg all the time on VM's broadband, and
yes I have seen it and used it wheras there are others like you who
dont.
You wont find out what speed you will get with VM until you join them,
just like ADSL.

Should I quit Virginmedia?
 

Carl Waring wrote:

Eeyore wrote:
They seem to rely on people paying list price without querying what's
available to make any money.

Well yeah. I was going to ask if you quibbled the price at your local
supermarket or restaurant that you frequented, but then you probably do ;-)

No. All the 'deals' I have were offered to me.

Graham