Virgin Media Discussion Thread

sven256 · 3 Oct 2013 at 22:20

Also hard to believe.

The only way you are getting it for that price is

You work for them.

You have tv etc also, but are taking the full price into account for that and deducting the total savings on you bill solely onto the broadband part.

Freak of nature

You are telling porkies.

topgun23 · 3 Oct 2013 at 22:25

Yeah I find this hard to believe too, but I've been wrong before

wam7 · 3 Oct 2013 at 23:56

Duke said:
That is insane. Upload some proof

There is something missing from the explanation...

Zaim · 4 Oct 2013 at 00:11

Van Diemen said:
I've been with VM since the early NTL days.

currently on 120meg & M Phone. paying less than £21/month

Is that including line rental ?

SiD-P · 4 Oct 2013 at 23:02

Van Diemen said:
I've been with VM since the early NTL days.

currently on 120meg & M Phone. paying less than £21/month

I'm on the same deal:

Called up sometime last year to cancel & move to BT fiber and retentions offered this £18.xx deal & am now paying the above after the price increase.
1 year contract with price locked for 2 years

Tuvoc · 4 Oct 2013 at 23:14

That is one thing I don't like about Virgin - their hugely different pricing. Some people get great deals (and good on them) and others pay substantially more - like me.... Maybe I'll cancel as well, and either get a better deal or in fact move to Infinity. Still, I do get a good half price deal on Sky TV....

kona786 · 5 Oct 2013 at 07:49

KIA · 10 Oct 2013 at 11:13

No more xDSL for new VM customers. http://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.ph...ops-selling-copper-based-adsl2-broadband.html

medley · 10 Oct 2013 at 14:16

kona786 said:

Anytime I try and run multiple torrents they all seem to slow each other down, its weird. I don't mean they equally spread out the bandwidth, more like instead of getting 14mpbs (very rarely!) across 5 torrents, I will end up with like 8mb max.

eddyhall · 10 Oct 2013 at 14:26

I have just called and cancelled my M phone connection as I never used it. Now I only have 60Mb BB at around £27pcm.

I have just come out of contract so it looks like I will be threatening to leave soon. If I can get the same deal as Sid-P I would be ecstatic.

Nymins · 10 Oct 2013 at 14:39

medley said:
Anytime I try and run multiple torrents they all seem to slow each other down, its weird. I don't mean they equally spread out the bandwidth, more like instead of getting 14mpbs (very rarely!) across 5 torrents, I will end up with like 8mb max.

Have you tried limiting your upload speed? Uploading a near full speed cripples my download.

ZXSpectrum · 11 Oct 2013 at 09:27

kona786 said:

I did a test of my 120mb connection and from a private tracker a torrent with 3 seeds was getting 14.8mbps download.. :eek:

mrk · 11 Oct 2013 at 09:34

I've left TBB graph running for some time now and the results seem very consistent based on the line's usage. This area is good for 120Mb and I almost always get 15MB/s.

bulldog147 · 11 Oct 2013 at 12:35

Mine is £25 a month with discount loyalty of £12.50 off for 24 months (until 2015) for 120 Meg standalone. With £50 credit plus superhub 2 too.

Munimentum · 12 Oct 2013 at 00:09

Thinking about ringing up to upgrade to 120MB. How have people managed to get these discounts? Did you ring up threatening to leave and they offered them or did they just offer them anyway when you wanted to upgrade/take it out?

kefan77 · 12 Oct 2013 at 00:15

Munimentum said:
Thinking about ringing up to upgrade to 120MB. How have people managed to get these discounts? Did you ring up threatening to leave and they offered them or did they just offer them anyway when you wanted to upgrade/take it out?

They will never offer you anything decent right away. I always say I'm thinking of moving to Infinity. I mean I could, the cabinet is like 15m from the house, but I'm quite happy with this, so till now, I always went for loyalty discount.

medley · 12 Oct 2013 at 12:36

Nymins said:
Have you tried limiting your upload speed? Uploading a near full speed cripples my download.

90% of the stuff i download has no peers just seeds so that's not the issue. May be its my utorrent settings.

kona786 · 13 Oct 2013 at 17:41

medley said:
Anytime I try and run multiple torrents they all seem to slow each other down, its weird. I don't mean they equally spread out the bandwidth, more like instead of getting 14mpbs (very rarely!) across 5 torrents, I will end up with like 8mb max.

I can reset my share ratio to 7.785 at anytime (modified the share ratio on Vuze, reset via batch file

)

Helps get closer to the front of the line for better speeds.

bobuk · 13 Oct 2013 at 18:32

Anyone in Plymouth area ? Really slow 120mb running in the evening at around 20mb, fault wont be fixed until at the earliest March 2014. WTF ?

bulldog147 · 13 Oct 2013 at 20:42

bobuk said:
Anyone in Plymouth area ? Really slow 120mb running in the evening at around 20mb, fault wont be fixed until at the earliest March 2014. WTF ?

You can phone them up and claim moneyback in compensation like I did!