Virgin Media Discussion Thread

dulcificum · 18 Mar 2019 at 15:07

Caged said:
Trying to find something but not having much luck. A cable assembled from HD100 cable and compression F connectors will be ideal.

This on the face of it looks fine https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https://www.ebay.co.uk/ulk/itm/183683204595

Apologies, I missed this at the time. But that's female to female, right? So it wouldn't extend, just replace the existing run of about 5m with 10?

ChrisD. · 18 Mar 2019 at 16:51

dulcificum said:
Apologies, I missed this at the time. But that's female to female, right? So it wouldn't extend, just replace the existing run of about 5m with 10?

I can't believe you just assumed gender!

Glanza · 19 Mar 2019 at 16:37

Had VM out yesterday as we're looking at moving and the new property has the street cabled but not outside our new build, surprised how easy it was. VM sales guy went to property he's marked pavement out for where they need to go and told me 6 - 8 weeks for them to get the pavement dug up and cables fitted ready due to council approval etc.

Even worked me a better deal out for the monthly cost as I've got to take a small hit on speed and drop back down to 200mb until they push 500mb out.

Stu · 19 Mar 2019 at 16:43

Any news on the new access points they are offering to cover dead spots? Will they create a mesh network, or are they just plain old powerline sockets with wifi?

jaybee · 21 Mar 2019 at 12:12

xb8browney said:
Just put your cancellation in and wait a week or two for a phone call.

In what ways can one cancel? Obviously phoning them is one. Can you do it on your "my account" area online?
Off to have a look now.

jaybee · 21 Mar 2019 at 12:28

Just got my latest bill and it's now climbed to £90 a month. I've got apparently a "Full House Bundle" which when originally took the contract got a retentions deal for £66.50 a month:

Full House TV (not sports) with one extra Tivo box upstairs
Vivid 200 BB
Talk Weekends

I'm out of contract and have been for a few months. I find the service good and want to keep it, but I'm not paying £90 a month anymore. Debating whether to drop to 100MB BB to open up options of even more cost savings. Anyone done that and regretted it? Not sure if we would miss/notice the BB drop.

xb8browney · 21 Mar 2019 at 12:28

jaybee said:
In what ways can one cancel? Obviously phoning them is one. Can you do it on your "my account" area online?
Off to have a look now.

Over the phone afaik

tonys · 21 Mar 2019 at 13:21

I've just got rid of the full house package, 2 tivo boxes and unlimited phone. Kept the 200mb broadband, gone from £100 to £42, bought a humax recorder and the wife is still finding stuff to record.

jaybee · 21 Mar 2019 at 14:46

tonys said:
I've just got rid of the full house package, 2 tivo boxes and unlimited phone. Kept the 200mb broadband, gone from £100 to £42, bought a humax recorder and the wife is still finding stuff to record.

You mean finding stuff to record off of freeview?

tonys · 21 Mar 2019 at 15:50

Yes, even though there are less channels

Cromulent · 21 Mar 2019 at 19:17

Are there any rumours on when VM is going to offer an increased speed? Not sure if I would go with it but I am curious.

xb8browney · 21 Mar 2019 at 20:48

Cromulent said:
Are there any rumours on when VM is going to offer an increased speed? Not sure if I would go with it but I am curious.

We could start one.

Rainmaker · 21 Mar 2019 at 23:51

xb8browney said:
We could start one.

They're supposedly rolling out DOCSIS 3.1 / gigabit this year, with 10Gbps nodes. The rest of the LG group have been doing, so I don't see why not. We'll see.

robfosters · 22 Mar 2019 at 00:38

My internets down. Says it will be fixed by 8am.

I’ve heard virgin are offering a free way to extend WiFi range. Does anyone know about this.

Rainmaker · 22 Mar 2019 at 01:17

robfosters said:
My internets down. Says it will be fixed by 8am.

I’ve heard virgin are offering a free way to extend WiFi range. Does anyone know about this.

Yeah, Full House (I think) or VIP customers can get free powerline based wifi extenders. Everyone on lower packages needs to buy them.

robfosters · 22 Mar 2019 at 01:21

Rainmaker said:
Yeah, Full House (I think) or VIP customers can get free powerline based wifi extenders. Everyone on lower packages needs to buy them.

I’ve only got BB, so I’d have to buy them. I’ve been with virgin for about ten years. You’d think they’d give me one on the house.

Anyone else’s internet down?

Scania · 22 Mar 2019 at 11:39

dean0 said:
I work for VM and can get you a great deal as I've done for a few on here using my staff rate, I get a small kickback and you will save a lot It is for new customers only, if your interested let me know.
Thanks
Dean

Thinking of switching over to VM (they rang me this morning to say my street has been activated as of yesterday) can you help?

Cheers

Edit: PM’d Dean directly, I’ve now signed up for 200 Mbps BB + Phone for less than they charge for 100, and cheaper than my current EE fibre setup which gets 55 Mbps on a good day!

Nice one @dean0

dulcificum · 22 Mar 2019 at 23:01

dulcificum said:
Apologies, I missed this at the time. But that's female to female, right? So it wouldn't extend, just replace the existing run of about 5m with 10?

Apart from gender jokes, would still appreciate any feedback on this?

bremen1874 · 22 Mar 2019 at 23:08

What do you want to know?

The cable that Caged linked is actually male-to-male (all F-plugs are male).

Duke · 23 Mar 2019 at 13:48

robfosters said:
I’ve heard virgin are offering a free way to extend WiFi range. Does anyone know about this.

I posted it on the previous page

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.p...-broadband-routers-with-intelligent-wifi.html