50MB Virgin Media

And finally - are people rating Virgin Media as a good service? I'm thinking of changing the TV, Broadband and Phone (Currently on Sky for TV and BT for Broadband and phone) all to Virgin Media.
 
Make sure you understand how the broadband works. On all but 50mb packages the traffic management cripples your connection for approx 8am to 9pm. Read the allyours virgin site for details on it.

When it works it is great 'cos you have the speed that is advertised - no worries about whether your line is any good. As mentioned before the problem is that some areas have high contention so can't guarantee the headline figure but this also applies to ADSL.

Outages for me in Glasgow and Edinburgh have been few and far between over 10 years. I have had suspicions about the quality of the DNS servers over the years. A couple of years ago I was using OpenDNS as a workaround. More recently I am back on the Virgin DNS servers and they have been acceptable.
 
Virgin TV is pretty good if you go for the XL package. That means you get On Demand for free and all the HD channels (apart from Sky Movies and Sports) for free to. The other packages are good, but the XL package is pretty great.

It works out as good value if you go for TV/BB/Phone all with Virgin.
 
Nymins said:
Virgin TV is pretty good if you go for the XL package. That means you get On Demand for free and all the HD channels (apart from Sky Movies and Sports) for free to. The other packages are good, but the XL package is pretty great.

It works out as good value if you go for TV/BB/Phone all with Virgin.
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Exactly what we're on. XL tv, M phone, XL BB, sky movies and sports and an additional virgin box for £5 a month.. still pay £92 a month though.

I always get 45-50Mb/s when i do speedtest.net on the London server. So happy with it, though I still haven't downloaded anything at 6.25MB/s obviously.

TV is good but its SO slow, so annoying with that and the pin you have to type in when watching certain films (12+?)
 
After over a year on my lovely, but somewhat unstable BE 17Mbit DSL, I've arrange to come back to the BB from VM, I'm getting 50Mbit!

Already had the XL TV, and was paying £38 just for that..bugger. A few years ago I used to have the XL TV and XL BB for £46..what a great deal that was, I kind of regret cancelling it.

Any how, £61 for XL TV, XXL BB, stupid M phoneline. Reasonable?
 
osc89er said:
Make sure you understand how the broadband works. On all but 50mb packages the traffic management cripples your connection for approx 8am to 9pm. Read the allyours virgin site for details on it.
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I was on the understanding that there was no traffic management on fibre optics? Is this correct?
 
Marky said:
I was on the understanding that there was no traffic management on fibre optics? Is this correct?
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There is traffic management on the 10mb and 20mb services. Both of which are on the fibre network. Virgin supply standard ADSL broadband as well if you are not in a cabled area, but its basically just the same as BT broadband, just resold under Virgins name.

The traffic management is easily avoidable if you just schedule large downloads to download overnight. Even then during the day, the 20mb service is capped to 5mb or so if you go over the limit, so by no means dog slow or anything.

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Yes, that's what I said. If by fibre optics you mean 50mb.
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10mb, 20mb and 50mb are all on Virgins fibre optic network. 10mb and 20mb have the STM, whilst 50mb, at the minute, doesn't.
 
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I will be properly ****ed if they introduce traffic management within the next 12 months :)
It was the main reason why I left the 20Mbit service last year!
 
nlr said:
Its not official by netgear so I doubt it could be improved?
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Sorry, that's a little ambiguous. Are you saying that because DGTeam firmware for Netgears (or DD-WRT, Tomato etc for other routers) is not official firmware from the OEM that it won't be as good? You're very wrong if that's the case. ;)

OP, I've had 50 meg internet from VM since we moved into a cabled area in January. We actually chose this area because it was cabled. +million nerd points. :o

The service has been bang on. I get 6.32MB/sec (almost 51Mbps) 24/7 and have downloaded the entire internets with no issues whatsoever. The XL TV is great, especially if you can wangle a V+ HD box or three. The only caveat (and it's tiny) is that VM are more expensive for call charges than BT or Sky. Not by much, but enough.

Definitely worth switching. Going from 5 meg ADSL to 50 meg cable? You will not be disappoint. :D
 
it all depends on were you live. if its bt cables then you got to rent there line. and u can get 50 meg because there cable dont let u have that much. as virgin media run there own and differnt cables to sky/bt
 
Sky HD is a lot better than virgin TV but its pricey, I'm thinking of getting their 50 meg internet though.
 
tolien said:
It's also horribly misleading to call it "fibre optics".
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Yea but the average consumer just eats it up and doesn't bother to do their research im sure when bt get there Infinity pr campaign up and running they will be banging on about fiber optic aswell.
 
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