A bit of advice please...

[Gaidin109]

Ok, I am getting pretty fed up with my Orange Broadband connection going down. It's the 8mb, it only cost a fiver so I got it a few years ago. Well since they gave up their LLU a month ago I have had nothing but drop outs and slow speed 2-4mb instead of the 6.5-7.5mb I was getting.

Anyway long story, short; I am considering Virgin 50mb. I have the cables installed already, I am after opinion on it's service and reliability.

I know there is a thread dedicated to this, but it's too big and full of cack and I don't have time to trawl through it.

So Virgin 50mb, yes or no?

 

[Gaidin109]

I live in a fibre area.

 

[Gaidin109]

Yeah, Dunno whether I'll use the bandwidth or not, the fact it doesn't throttle warrents the extra few quid.

I just don't want to jump out of the frying pan so to speak.

 

[Gaidin109]

Unless your current broadband is unbearably slow/not enough dl allowance then stick where you are. Latency is the same for VM cable and dsl customers, so gaming isn't affected (from my experiance)...

If the price difference is worth it for the non traffic shaping policy the have (which could change without notice, read the t&cs) the go for it

My current Orange is fast enough and is unlimited, but the damned thing drops out every 20mins or so from friday morning to tuesday evening, every week for the past month. It's driving me nuts.

It's not a few quid exactly, the Orange package only cost me £5 p/m with the livebox, calls etc, but I'd rather pay the £38 p/m to get something reliable and the price difference between 20/50mb is small.

 

[Gaidin109]

I'll be keeping my phone and SkyHD, so I am just in the market for the broadband. It seems that it is all pretty reliable so cheers, 50mb here I come.

 

[Gaidin109]

All ordered and to be installed on Wednesday.

 

[Gaidin109]

All done and dusted...over the moon, speed as advertised.

Gone from this:

to this: