A bit of advice please...

Gaidin109

Gaidin109

Gaidin109

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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?
 
Virgin fiber has been fine for all of my friends but I live in a non cable street :(

Not sure if it is still an unmetered "unlimited" service but their ADSL services, IMO, is very poor. Had loads of bother for months (see the VM forums, it wasn't isolated) and their tech support outright lied about it. In August I am going back to BT or may give O2 a go.
 
I know, thats why I said all the people I know on their fiber packages are happy enough with the performance/price ;) I think they have some bizarre caps and throttling policies on the lower packages. The 50 service was unlimited so to speak last time I looked i.e. no shaping.

Had a look and it seems the top package is still "unlimited" . The choice depends on if you need the bandwith and allowance for what you need.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/internet/traffic.html
 
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.
 
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 ;)
 
d_brennen said:
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 ;)
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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.
 
I'm on 50 megs with Virgin and have been since January this year, so almost five months. I've had no issues at all, get 50.4 megs download speed 24/7 rock solid, and latency/jitter are fine. The lack of bandwidth cap is handy, and I can confirm I've experienced no throttling/shaping.

Basically, go for it. They do a 28 day money back guarantee anyway, so what's to lose? :) If you know someone on VM cable, get them to give you their account number so you both get £30 credit to your bills as a referral discount, too. If you go for their phone (it effectively costs nothing) and TV too, bear in mind that they are giving away V+ HD atm (equivalent to Sky+).
 
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.
 
All done and dusted...over the moon, speed as advertised.

Gone from this:

orangespeed.jpg



:(:(:(:(:(

to this:

virgin.jpg


:D:D:D:D
 
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