Virgin Media Suck!

pabloB

pabloB

pabloB

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Pay for 20mb Broadband,

Look what I get

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Yes Yes I know it's "up to" but surely this is taking the ****!

Does running the net through a router impinge on speed - excuse this amateurish question but I've only just got a router and haven't fully read up on it yet! :o

Granted this has only been done over 3 days, going to give it a week and then complain!


Anyone else having issues.
 
Well speedtest sites aren't the best way to determine speed, best way is to download something from a speedy source. nVidia and Microsoft are speedy sources.

I downloaded IE 7 from MS just now and got on 20MB (wireless connection with 2 lan users online too) :

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hey on the phone to the useless sods atm,

problem stems from a modem replacement(the ethernet port was a bit dicky on the old one

before 1.98 meg/sec dowload
now with ew modem 70KB sec
bloody indians spend ten minutes telling me my name was wrong then told me that my nam is wrong i need an engineer and that i need to call back to book as i'm through to the wrong dept to do that i want to burn ntl's office to the ground right now i'm that fed up

been tryng to get this mess sorted since 2 oclock this afternoon

I HATE NTL SOOO MUCH RIGHT NOW

i want to nuke Richard Branson from orbit and punch his remains in the ovaries
 
i want to get a flight to india and punch every one of them in the ovaries


still on the phone trying to get this sorted

anyone know any curse words in indian
 
mrk said:
Well speedtest sites aren't the best way to determine speed, best way is to download something from a speedy source. nVidia and Microsoft are speedy sources.

I downloaded IE 7 from MS just now and got on 20MB (wireless connection with 2 lan users online too) :

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Hi there, why is that? I don't really understand the logic of testing a net connection on a fast website/speedy source?
 
While I feel exactly the same as you with the bouts of changes to terms and conditions, normally in VM's favour, there's no point in moaning about it any more.

Virgin Media read the Internet, they have a complaints department, and more importantly they have a business plan. Which despite our best efforts of posting complaints and protests, they're not going to deviate from sadly.

Really want to punch them in the ovaries? Ditch them, join Be and send their complaints department a picture of you sitting next to a speed test on a screen with a big grin and a thumbs up because sadly that's the only way you're going to get any satisfaction.

From a Virgin Media customer in the same boat, waiting for the 12 month contract to expire in May so he can join his recently converted exchange's connection to Be :)
 
pabloB said:
Hi there, why is that? I don't really understand the logic of testing a net connection on a fast website/speedy source?
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Well where is the logic in download a file from a slow or busy source and then complaining your download speed is slow? :p

Think about it!

It's like driving a Lambo at in heavy traffic and complaining it's not very fast.
 
mrk said:
Well where is the logic in download a file from a slow or busy source and then complaining your download speed is slow? :p

Think about it!

It's like driving a Lambo at in heavy traffic and complaining it's not very fast.
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LOL doh! doh! doh! brain fart!

Andr3w1984
 
arrrrghh i'm hitting my head off the desk now

excuses so far

you have a virus

what operating system are you using, xp and ubuntu aah (referring to ubuntu your using an out of date version of windows you need to upgrade to xp to get full speed internet

you have an area fault

still on the bleeding phone having sppoke to 5 members of staff and my interweb is still crappy slow

i want to kill someone
 
mrk said:
Well where is the logic in download a file from a slow or busy source and then complaining your download speed is slow? :p

Think about it!

It's like driving a Lambo at in heavy traffic and complaining it's not very fast.
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kk fair enough!
 
pabloB said:
picked a couple of random files to dl 565kb/sec surely thats somewhat still off the pace!??

andr3w1984 yes occaisonally d/l torrents of game demos why's that?
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Just asking, too much downloading can result in a cap in bandwidth. Not sure if virgin do it though but might be worth asking.

Andr3w1984
 
For all those complaining...

Download this.

Then run it on this.

You will get 10+Mbps every time. Unless there is actually a problem with Virgin Media and your connection, which from 'speed' tests alone, you cannot ascertain.
 
woot :)
163 KB/s on a 20 meg line

lucky lucky me

anyone know how much adsl will cost me a month
 
tim80bwi said:
For all those complaining...

Download this.

Then run it on this.

You will get 10+Mbps every time. Unless there is actually a problem with Virgin Media and your connection, which from 'speed' tests alone, you cannot ascertain.
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Good lord that works!! Still curious by the initial results though
 
well finally gave up on the phone call to india

not bad only an hour of my life wasted on these idiots
 
I never phone them in india if I ever have to phone them (which is maybe once a year!)
 
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