Hi,
I have been a Virgin Media customer for years but went ahead and cancelled the other day through frustration. I have been a regular on the Virgin Media forums and also phoned them a good 10 times in the past year over peak time slowdowns. All I kept being told was "high utilization in the area, we are reviewing on such a date" Well this has been the case for the past 2 years. No fix to date.
I am at work during the day so the evenings and the weekends are the only time I get a bit of time to myself to play some online multiplayers, but I'm never able to due to Virgin Media's poorly oversubscribed service in the area. Peak time speeds is a maximum of 20MB seriously. The speed fluctuations also seem to heavily affect game latencies as it tends to be allover the place during the evenings and weekends. The latency spikes are the absolute worst and not ideal when gaming. This is all on a 200MB package. What good to me are high speeds in the morning or later on at night when I cannot play at such times?
Most of my time on the PC is done on multiplayer games, uploading large files to the web and the family are often browsing the web on the laptops and mobiles.
What other broadband options are out there? None of them seem to compare with Virgin Media's speeds, does that really matter?
I have been a Virgin Media customer for years but went ahead and cancelled the other day through frustration. I have been a regular on the Virgin Media forums and also phoned them a good 10 times in the past year over peak time slowdowns. All I kept being told was "high utilization in the area, we are reviewing on such a date" Well this has been the case for the past 2 years. No fix to date.
I am at work during the day so the evenings and the weekends are the only time I get a bit of time to myself to play some online multiplayers, but I'm never able to due to Virgin Media's poorly oversubscribed service in the area. Peak time speeds is a maximum of 20MB seriously. The speed fluctuations also seem to heavily affect game latencies as it tends to be allover the place during the evenings and weekends. The latency spikes are the absolute worst and not ideal when gaming. This is all on a 200MB package. What good to me are high speeds in the morning or later on at night when I cannot play at such times?
Most of my time on the PC is done on multiplayer games, uploading large files to the web and the family are often browsing the web on the laptops and mobiles.
What other broadband options are out there? None of them seem to compare with Virgin Media's speeds, does that really matter?
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